Learning and Remembering about Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Learning and Remembering about Auschwitz-Birkenau
Categories Holocaust 
Tags: Yad Vashem 
grades:  High School (9-12) 

Lesson Summary:

From Yad Vashem:

This lesson plan features testimonies, photographs and other primary source materials relating to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Students will learn about the history of the camp, the daily existence of its Jewish prisoners, and its liberation by Soviet forces in January, 1945.



Objectives

  • Examine primary resources including testimonies and photographs relating to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • Learn about how human beings were dehumanized by other humans, and how Jews were selected upon arrival Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • Gain insight into how prisoners sought to survive in this extermination camp. Think about the meanings of “liberation” after the Holocaust.
  • Focus on the significance of Auschwitz-Birkenau within world history, remembrance and culture.

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