Photos Courtesy USHMM
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Learning
about the Holocaust is a daunting task. An enormous amount of information about
it exists in print and on the World Wide Web.
Yet students sometimes see the Holocaust as a single event---something
that was experienced in the same way
by all people who became victims of the Nazi program. To do this we will keep our focus on the experiences of
Jews in different parts of Europe. Our
tasks will be to examine those experiences and catalogue them in relation to
geography.
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Holocaust to discover the different experiences of people across the
continent of Europe who fell under Nazi rule? How can we as learners find our
way through all the information? Is there a way we can explore the World Wide
Web to discover the different experiences of a young person during the Holocaust
in France and one in, say, Czechoslovakia?
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The
tasks about to be outlined for you will guide you to a broader understanding of
the Holocaust through the eyes of people who were your age back then.
Each of you will have specific tasks to perform as individuals, and your
groups will need to come together to accomplish the final synthesis, or putting
together, of your information. Let’s
get going, and break down the tasks for the members of the group. Let's begin
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