THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Group 5: Please click on the links below in order to find the information needed to answer the following questions. PLEASE NOTE: THIS INFORMATION AND THE VIDEO THAT FOLLOWS IS HORRIFYING AND GRAPHIC.
1. What was a concentration camp?
2. What did they look like pre-war (pre-1939)?
3. Describe the evolution of the camps (1939-1945)
4. How were the concentration camps and the extermination centres different?
5. How many concentration camps were there?
6. Where were they located?
7. Who was in charge?
8. What was life like in the camp system? (Daily routine, living conditions, etc)
9. When did the Nazis start dismantling the concentration camps? Why?
10. How many Jews were mass murdered in World War II, including shootings and in concentration camps? What percentage of Europe's Jews died here?
11. Any other information that your peers may find interesting.
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://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263 (Concentration camps pre-1939)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005474 (1939-1942)http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005475 (1942-1945)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007387 (Camp system- in depth)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144 (The Nazi Camps)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005145 (The Killing Centres)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html (List of WWII Camps)http://www.holocaust-education.dk/lejre/koncentrationslejrene.asp (Living Conditions, Organization, etc)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (A day in the life...)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (German Concentration Camps)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (The Extermination Camps)
1. What was a concentration camp?
2. What did they look like pre-war (pre-1939)?
3. Describe the evolution of the camps (1939-1945)
4. How were the concentration camps and the extermination centres different?
5. How many concentration camps were there?
6. Where were they located?
7. Who was in charge?
8. What was life like in the camp system? (Daily routine, living conditions, etc)
9. When did the Nazis start dismantling the concentration camps? Why?
10. How many Jews were mass murdered in World War II, including shootings and in concentration camps? What percentage of Europe's Jews died here?
11. Any other information that your peers may find interesting.
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://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263 (Concentration camps pre-1939)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005474 (1939-1942)http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005475 (1942-1945)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007387 (Camp system- in depth)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144 (The Nazi Camps)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005145 (The Killing Centres)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html (List of WWII Camps)http://www.holocaust-education.dk/lejre/koncentrationslejrene.asp (Living Conditions, Organization, etc)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (A day in the life...)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (German Concentration Camps)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MainCampsEng.html (The Extermination Camps)