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What would your life be like if you were a Jewish person living in Nazi Germany in 1940?You might be forced to leave your home with only what you and your family could carry. You might even be killed by members of the Nazi party.The Holocaust is a grim period in human history. More than 11 million people, including 6 million Jewish people, died at the hands of the Nazis. In The Holocaust: Racism and Genocide in World War II, readers ages 12 to 15 learn about the long history of anti-Semitism, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, the increasing persecution of Jewish people and other populations, and the events of "The Final Solution," the attempt to exterminate an entire race of people through industrialized death camps. Projects such as writing letters in the voices of teenagers of different races who lived in the 1930s help infuse the content with realism and the eternal capacity for hope. In-depth investigations of primary sources from the period allow readers to engage in further, independent study of the times. Additional materials include links to online primary sources, a glossary, a list of current reference works, and Internet resources.Nomad Press books in the Inquire & Investigate series integrate content with participation, encouraging older readers to engage in student-directed learning as opposed to teacher-guided instruction. This student-centered approach provides readers with the tools they need to become inquiry-based learners. Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, and STEM Education all place project-based learning as key building blocks in education. Combining content with inquiry-based projects stimulates learning and makes it active and alive. Consistent with our other series, all of the activities in the books in the Inquire & Investigate series are hands-on, challenging readers to develop and test their own hypotheses, ask their own questions, and formulate their own solutions. In the process, readers learn how to analyze, evaluate, and present the data they collect. As informational texts our books provide key ideas and details from which readers can work out their own inferences. Nomad's unique approach simultaneously grounds kids in factual knowledge while allowing them the space to be curious, creative, and critical thinkers. Soon they'll be thinking like scientists by questioning things around them and considering new approaches.

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Histoire

The Holocaust

World War II

Europe

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Publié par	Nomad Press
Date de parution	11 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781619305083
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	8 Mo

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Holocaust
Contents

Timeline
Introduction
What Was the Holocaust?
Chapter 1
The Jewish People and Anti-Semitism
Chapter 2
The Rise of the Nazi Party
Chapter 3
Persecution and World War II
Chapter 4
The Final Solution: Extermination
Chapter 5
War s End
Chapter 6
How Could the Holocaust Happen?
Chapter 7
Rescue and Resistance
Chapter 8
The Legacy of the Holocaust
Glossary Resources Index
TIMELINE

1918
After Germany s defeat in World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees the country. The Weimar Republic leads Germany.
1919
The Treaty of Versailles forces Germany to accept responsibility and pay reparations for World War I.
1920
A rising Nazi Party star named Adolf Hitler presents a 25-point plan at a Nazi Party meeting.
1923
Hitler and the Nazi Party unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, an event that would become known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
1925
After his release from prison, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party.
January 1933
President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.
March 1933
The Schutzstaffel, or SS, paramilitary organization opens Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich, Germany.
April 1933
The Nazi Party calls for the boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
1933
Beginning in 1933, the Germans pass more than 400 decrees and regulations that restrict the public and private lives of the Jewish people.

1935
Germany passes the Nuremberg Race Laws, which exclude Jews from being German citizens and prohibit them from marrying a person with German blood.
March 1938
Germany annexes Austria.
November 1938
Kristallnacht is a violent two nights of attacks on Jewish people and businesses throughout Germany and its territories.
September 1939
Germany invades Poland, triggering the start of World War II.
October 1939
The Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrk w Trybunalski, Poland.
May 1940
Germany attacks France.
July 1940
The Battle of Britain begins as the British and German air forces battle for air superiority.
October 1940
The Nazis open the Warsaw Ghetto.
September 1941
Mobile killing units shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, Ukraine.
December 1941
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States enters the war.
December 1941
The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland.

January 1942
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
January 1942
The Wannsee Conference is held near Berlin, Germany, to discuss the Final Solution.
1942
The Germans start mass deportations of Jews from Europe s ghettos to concentration camps and killing centers.
April 1943
Jewish resistance fights back against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
October 1943
The Danish people evacuate their Jewish citizens before the Nazis are able to deport them.
June 1944
Allied forces invade Normandy, France, on D-Day.
June 1944
The Soviets launch an offensive in the east against Nazi forces.
August 1944
The Allies liberate Paris, France.
January 1945
Thousands of concentration camp prisoners are forced on death marches to empty the camps before Allied forces arrive.
January 1945
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
April 1945
Allied forces surround Berlin.
April 1945
American troops liberate Dachau concentration camp.
April 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
May 1945
Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia is the last death camp to be liberated.
May 1945
Germany surrenders.
November 1945
The Nuremberg trials of leading German officials for war crimes opens before the International Military Tribunal.
1948
The U.S. Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act, which provides immigration visas for about 400,000 people between 1949 and 1952.
1948
The State of Israel is established. It is the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.
1948
The United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which lists, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that are to be universally protected.
1953
The last Jewish displaced persons camp in Germany closes.
2005
The United Nations marks January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Soviet army in 1945.

Introduction
What Was the Holocaust?

Why is it important to study the Holocaust?

There are many reasons people study the Holocaust, including learning more about ourselves as a people and developing ways to prevent genocide from happening again.
The Holocaust is a grim moment in human history that evolved slowly, from 1933 to 1945. It began with discrimination and ended in mass murder. The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazi regime.
More than 6 million Jewish people were killed in the pogroms and concentration camps of Germany. This was nearly two out of every three Jews living in Europe at the time.
Countless more people, including the mentally ill, disabled, and a group called the Romani, also suffered at the hands of the Nazi Party.
The Nazis believed that Germans were racially superior and they were determined to destroy those who threatened their so-called pure race. They also murdered political opponents, homosexuals, and prisoners of war. Between 2 and 3 million prisoners of war from the Soviet Union were killed or died of starvation, disease, or neglect at the hands of their Nazi captors.
Although the Holocaust ended in 1945, its lasting effects are still felt around the world today. The Holocaust was not an accident in history-it occurred because individuals, organizations, and governments made choices. These choices legalized discrimination and allowed prejudice, hatred, and ultimately mass murder.
The study of the Holocaust has different meanings for different individuals, but it is imperative that everyone has a deep awareness and appreciation of this tumultuous time in history. It teaches us critical lessons in morality, human behavior, and what it means to be responsible citizens. The Holocaust serves to remind us that democratic institutions and values are not automatically sustained, but need to be appreciated, nurtured, and protected.

P RIMARY S OURCES

Primary sources come from people who were eyewitnesses to events. They might write about the event, take pictures, post short messages to social media or blogs, or record the event for radio or video. Why are primary sources important? Do you learn differently from primary sources than from secondary sources, which come from people who did not directly experience the event?

BEAR WITNESS

At least five men turned down the ambassador post in Germany before William E. Dodd accepted the position.
ONE PERSON S PERSPECTIVE
We can see how the rise of Nazi Germany was perceived by people around the world when we look at the experiences of one man-William E. Dodd. On July 5, 1933, Dodd, along with his wife, Martha, and his son and daughter, boarded the Washington , a ship sailing from the United States to Hamburg, Germany. Dodd was to become the next American ambassador to Germany.
A professor at the University of Chicago and a leading historian of the American South, Dodd was an unlikely choice for the job. However, President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that Dodd was suited for the job. He wanted Dodd to be a standing example of democracy in Germany during a time when whispers circulated about the Nazi persecution of Jews and the country s increasing suspension of democracy.
When the Dodds sailed for Germany, a man named Adolf Hitler had been Germany s chancellor for six months. Newspapers in America and around the world reported stories about Hitler s rise and the German government s increasingly hostile attitude and brutal treatment of Jews, communists, and other opponents. Many people believed that the reports of Germany s transformation from a modern democracy into a brutal dictatorship were exaggerated.
When Dodd first arrived in Berlin, he, too, thought that the warnings about the troubles in Germany were overstated. He was convinced that moderate opinions in the government would prevail and that the mistreatment of the Jewish people would lessen. Dodd believed that the best approach was to encourage more humane treatment of the Jews through private conversations with moderates in Hitler s government.

Even after he met Hitler in 1933, Dodd remained steadfast in his belief that Hitler and his top men would make reasonable choices.

T HE J EWISH Q UESTION

For Hitler and the Nazis, the Jewish Question was the perception that Jewish people were taking over Germany and conspiring to take German wealth for their own use. In reality, Jews represented less than 1 percent of the total German populat