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1932 German Election Ballot

The 1932 German election ballot featured 36 parties, many of which existed only on paper. The number of different groups made it difficult for any single party to gain a majority in parliament in the Weimar Republic.

Last Updated: February 11, 2014

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History
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The Holocaust

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Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-P046291 / Weinrother, Carl / CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Students watch video testimony from a Holocaust survivor and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivor’s important story.

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Students view the film, analyze a primary source from the Oyneg Shabes archive, and consider why it matters who tells the stories of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Developed specifically for educators in Jewish settings, these lessons lead middle and high school students through an examination of the Holocaust from a historical perspective and consider what this particular history has to do with what it means to be Jewish.

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Students create working definitions of stereotype as they examine the human behavior of applying categories to people and things.

Collection

Get Spanish-language versions of popular readings from Holocaust and Human Behavior.

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This collection features powerful accounts of the Holocaust, told by survivors, rescuers, and witnesses, selected from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

Nate Leipciger shares testimony with students.

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Students identify the social and cultural factors that help shape our identities by analyzing firsthand reflections and creating personal identity charts.

Hands raised in the air by group of people

Collection

Explore the digital version of our core resource on the Holocaust. Find classroom-ready readings, primary sources, and short documentary films that support a study of the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior.

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Students prepare for their study of the Holocaust by reflecting on the ways in which memory is an integral part of Jewish identity.

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Students are introduced to the enormity of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and look closely at stories of a few individuals who were targeted by Nazi brutality.

A crowd of women and children, some with Stars of David patches on their clothing.

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Students deepen their examination of human behaviour during the Holocaust by analysing and discussing the range of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations.

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.

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Students both respond to and design Holocaust memorials as they consider the impact that memorials and monuments have on the way we think about history.

In Kassel, Germany, artist Horst Hoheisel created a “counter-memorial” marking the site where a majestic fountain built by a Jewish citizen once stood; it had been destroyed by Nazis in 1939.

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