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86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges
(Der Speigel, April 14, 2008) The article, "86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges," reports on what could be the last war crimes trial to take place in Germany. In this case, an elderly SS soldier might be put on trial for shooting three unarmed Dutch civilians in 1944.
 Facing Today May 14, 2008
86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges
(Der Speigel, April 14, 2008) The article, "86-Year-Old SS Killer Faces Murder Charges," reports on what could be the last war crimes trial to take place in Germany. In this case, an elderly SS soldier might be put on trial for shooting three unarmed Dutch civilians in 1944.
 Facing Today May 14, 2008
A Commandant’s View

In an interview with journalist Gitta Sereny after his arrest in Brazil in 1971 and subsequent trial, Franz Stangl, the commandant of the death camp at Sobibor and later at Treblinka, responded to questions.

“You’ve been telling me about your routines,” I said to him. “But how did you feel? Was there anything you enjoyed, you felt good about?”

 Publication Readings March 9, 2010
A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell

30 minutes, black & white
Source: Filmakers Library

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Discussion with Elie Wiesel

30 minutes, color
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

Facing History and Ourselves students from Chicago area high schools share their thoughts and experiences as part of a panel discussion with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. There is a lesson created around this video, about Eve Shalen and the "in" group, on pages 29-31 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book.

Related lesson:
Membership, Identity, and Traditional Jewish Texts

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night
November 9 is the 70th anniversary of what the Nazi's euphemistically called Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass. The article "A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night" describes how researchers recently discovered that a dump 30 miles outside of Berlin, contains physical evidences of what many Holocaust scholars believe was "the beginning of the end" for Jews in Germany.
 Facing Today October 30, 2008
A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night
November 9 is the 70th anniversary of what the Nazi's euphemistically called Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass. The article "A German Dump Holds Shards of a Terrible Night" describes how researchers recently discovered that a dump 30 miles outside of Berlin, contains physical evidences of what many Holocaust scholars believe was "the beginning of the end" for Jews in Germany.
 Facing Today October 30, 2008
A Place to Save Your Life: The Shanghai Jews

22 minutes
Source: Filmakers Library

Seeking refuge from Nazi terror, some 17,000 Jews traveled to Shanghai, one of the few places that did not require a visa. Although a few Jews already lived in China, the Europeans found life there strange and difficult. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule. Although the Japanese forced the exiles into a ghetto, they did not follow Hitler's extermination plan.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France
(Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2008) The article, "A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France," tells the story of a Protestant community that saved thousands, most of them Jews, from persecution by the Nazis.
 Facing Today May 14, 2008
A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France
(Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2008) The article, "A Protestant Town's Conspiracy of Good in Vichy France," tells the story of a Protestant community that saved thousands, most of them Jews, from persecution by the Nazis.
 Facing Today May 14, 2008
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