The Holocaust - The Range of Responses
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Use these slides to help students deepen their examination of human behaviour during the Holocaust by analysing and discussing the range of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations.
Book Burning in Berlin
Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.
Bar Mitzvah at Zerrennerstrasse Synagogue
A bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
Confiscation of Prisoners’ Belongings
These men were determined fit enough to perform hard labor. Their heads were shaved and their clothes replaced with prison uniforms.
Former SS Member Oskar Groening
Defendant Oskar Gröning, a former SS member, at a courtroom in Lüneburg, Germany, April 21, 2015. Gröning, age 93, was found guilty of aiding in the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz and sentenced to four years in prison.
Flowers and Butterfly
Margit Koretzova painted this while imprisoned at the Terezín ghetto-camp. She died at age ten.
Facades for the International Commission by Bedřich Fritta
This illustration by Bedřich Fritta, a prisoner at Terezín, depicts the “beautification” of the ghetto-camp undertaken by the SS before the Red Cross visit in 1944.