THE WORLD JUST WATCHED...
Group 7: Please click on the links below in order to find the information needed to answer the following questions.
1. When did the rest of the world become aware that Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was being carried out?
2. What was the United States' reaction?
3.How did the Nazis try to conceal what was really going on?
4. Why did regular German people sit idly by?
5. Why did the rest of the world do nothing?
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.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/worldres.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182 (The United States' reaction)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/wjcbomb.html (Plea from World Jewish Agency)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/knewtoc.html (What We Knew and When We Knew It)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/november96/holocaust_11-20.html
http://www.history.com/topics/american-response-to-the-holocaust
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks4/how-did-the-world-respond/how-did-the-allies-respond/did-the-allies-do-enough-to-stop-the-nazis/#.Ukt_lhaMNz8
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/25407
1. When did the rest of the world become aware that Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was being carried out?
2. What was the United States' reaction?
3.How did the Nazis try to conceal what was really going on?
4. Why did regular German people sit idly by?
5. Why did the rest of the world do nothing?
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.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/worldres.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182 (The United States' reaction)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/wjcbomb.html (Plea from World Jewish Agency)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/knewtoc.html (What We Knew and When We Knew It)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/november96/holocaust_11-20.html
http://www.history.com/topics/american-response-to-the-holocaust
http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks4/how-did-the-world-respond/how-did-the-allies-respond/did-the-allies-do-enough-to-stop-the-nazis/#.Ukt_lhaMNz8
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/25407