Lesson Study“Chronology of the Holocaust”

Road to Auschwitz: (1933-1942)

“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but

paved by indifference.” – Ian Kershaw

PRE-ACTIVITY: The Questions & the

Timeline• Please get out your copy of the

timeline (p. 2-3) given yesterday as well as the questions (p. 4) you completed for homework. Have only that and a pen or pencil on your desk.

• Read the laws at your desk so you are ready to discuss them with your group.

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, Part I:

The Laws• In your small groups,

read & discuss all the laws in your packet; agree on ONE law that might have had

the most impact on you & your peers; share your group’s law with the whole

class; tape it & the remaining laws on the class

timeline.(p.6)

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, Part I:

The Laws

• Go for a “Class Timeline Gallery Walk” looking at ALL the laws now posted.

• Individually, complete PART 1, QUESTION 1 in your packets (p. 5).

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, Part II: Photograph Analysis

Photograph #: 50978Date: Sep 1939 - Oct 1939

Locale: Tomaszow Mazowiecki, [Lodz] PolandCredit: USHMM, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci

Narodowej

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, Part II: Photograph Analysis

What do you see?

Caption

• A group of German soldiers and civilians look on as a Jewish man is forced to cut the beard of another in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

Look at this last! Don’t cheat!

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, Part II: Photograph Analysis

• As a group, complete the rest of the packet (p. 7-8):

– discuss the photos– fill in the worksheets

• When finished…1. tape the caption onto the photo.2. tape the photo onto the timeline.

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, PART III: Discussion (p. 9)

Putting it all together…• During which years were there fewer

events? Why do you think that? More events? Why?

• What was the most common expression of the bystanders in the photographs? Perpetrators? Victims?

• What role do you think that the laws played in determining the behavior of the people you saw in the photographs today?

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY, PART III: Discussion (p. 9)

Back to the Quote…

• “The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved by indifference.” – Ian Kershaw

• Look at the class timeline, what one or two images would you look to in order to explain this quote?

•What responsibilities does knowing this history place on

all of us today?

POST-ACTIVITY, PART III: Think it Through (p. 10)

• Individually, complete the follow-up questions in short essay form.

OR… if you don’t have time for an in-class

discussion…

Teaching Alternatives One - three+ days

Pick and choose laws according to your students.

Pick and choose pictures accordingly. Use as introductory lesson, lesson on

bystanders, primary source analysis, etc. Use related testimonies. Change the timeline as you see fit - write

on it, add or delete information.

“There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move – and he, in turn, waits for you.”

-Marian Anderson