THE GHETTO AND KRISTALLNACHT
Group 3: Please click on the links below in order to find the information needed to answer the following questions. Please be aware, this information is horrific and the photographs are often graphic.
1. What was a ghetto?
2. Why were the Jews forced to live there?
3. What were the living conditions like?
4. What was life like in the ghetto?
5. By 1940, how many ghettos were established? Which was the largest? How many people were in it?
6. What was Kristallnacht?
7. When did it happen?
8. Why did it happen? What was its purpose?
9. What are some of the statistics from that fateful night? (How many synagogues burned, how many Jews died, etc?)
10. Who were the perpetrators?
11. Add any other interesting information that you find to be relevant for your peers.
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.P
1. What was a ghetto?
2. Why were the Jews forced to live there?
3. What were the living conditions like?
4. What was life like in the ghetto?
5. By 1940, how many ghettos were established? Which was the largest? How many people were in it?
6. What was Kristallnacht?
7. When did it happen?
8. Why did it happen? What was its purpose?
9. What are some of the statistics from that fateful night? (How many synagogues burned, how many Jews died, etc?)
10. Who were the perpetrators?
11. Add any other interesting information that you find to be relevant for your peers.
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.P
The Ghetto:
http://ww2today.com/19th-january-1942-the-final-journey-from-ghetto-to-death-camp (The Final Journey from the Ghetto to the Death Camp)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059 (Life in the Ghetto)
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007708 (What was it like?)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ghetto.html (The Holocaust Ghetto)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ghetmap.html (Map of European Ghetto's)
http://www.slideshare.net/diana.koscik/the-ghettos (SlideShare)
http://www.local-life.com/warsaw/articles/warsaw-ghetto
Kristallnacht:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristalltoc.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristallnacht.htmlhttp://www.fold3.com/page/83002459_kristallnachtthe_night_of_broken/
http://ww2today.com/19th-january-1942-the-final-journey-from-ghetto-to-death-camp (The Final Journey from the Ghetto to the Death Camp)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059 (Life in the Ghetto)
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007708 (What was it like?)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ghetto.html (The Holocaust Ghetto)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ghetmap.html (Map of European Ghetto's)
http://www.slideshare.net/diana.koscik/the-ghettos (SlideShare)
http://www.local-life.com/warsaw/articles/warsaw-ghetto
Kristallnacht:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005201http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristalltoc.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristallnacht.htmlhttp://www.fold3.com/page/83002459_kristallnachtthe_night_of_broken/