RESCUE, LIBERATION AND
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS
Group 9: Please click on the links below in order to find the information needed to answer the following questions.
1. In 1945, when allied troops liberated the camps, what did they find?
2. What famous trials were held after World War II to prosecute Nazi war criminals?
3. What was accomplished at the trials?
4. What country was created in 1948 as a homeland for Jewish survivors of World War II?
Please present this information(and a few pictures) to the class on a piece of blank chart paper. We will hang this up in the classroom to refer to during our reading of the novel.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/liberato.htm
http://www.remember.org/witness/liberators.html
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/survivor.htm (Survivor's Stories)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuremberg_article_01.shtml
http://www.history.com/topics/nuremberg-trials
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007069
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurtrialtoc.html
1. In 1945, when allied troops liberated the camps, what did they find?
2. What famous trials were held after World War II to prosecute Nazi war criminals?
3. What was accomplished at the trials?
4. What country was created in 1948 as a homeland for Jewish survivors of World War II?
Please present this information(and a few pictures) to the class on a piece of blank chart paper. We will hang this up in the classroom to refer to during our reading of the novel.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/liberato.htm
http://www.remember.org/witness/liberators.html
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/survivor.htm (Survivor's Stories)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuremberg_article_01.shtml
http://www.history.com/topics/nuremberg-trials
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007069
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurtrialtoc.html