Assignment: Holocaust
• What factors contributed to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany?
• Discuss the progression of anti-Semitism in Nazi-era Germany, from the early days of the party through Kristallnacht.
• Prior to the establishment of the ghettos, what regulations were put into place to reduce Jewish rights?
• What did the Einsatzgruppen do in Poland?
• What were the responsibilities of the Judenrate in the ghettos?
• How did outsiders help Jews within the ghetto?
• What was the Nazi response to deaths within the ghetto?
Critical Thinking Questions
• How do you think the ghettos facilitated the eventual extermination of the Jews?
• Why might ghettos have been an entirely Eastern phenomenon, not built in Germany or other Nazicontrolled areas?
• How did Jews maintain hope within the ghetto?
• How did the invasion of the Soviet Union differ from that of Poland?
• How did Operation Barbarossa pave the way for the Final Solution?
Never Forget to Lie, Lilian Boraks-Nemetz: My Holocaust Survival
• What were the ZOB and the Jewish Military Union and why were they formed?
• Explain how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began.
• Explain why Lilian's father tells her to suddenly run through a gate. Where does Lilian's family go from there and why do they want to stay in the ghetto?
• Based on what you have learned about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and from Lilian's account, in what ways do you think the uprising was a success or a failure?
• Why did the management of the "Jewish question" vary in the East and West?
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