Pre–World War II European Jewish Life Photo Project
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Aimee Young, Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village Schools’ High School, Loudonville, Ohio
COURSE OUTLINE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
A 10th–12th Grade Elective
The elective covers an entire trimester, 12 weeks in length, for an hour a day, and is based on the Ohio State Department of Education’s curriculum guide, The Holocaust: Prejudice Unleashed, by the Ohio Council on Holocaust Education, Secondary School Curriculum.
Foundations
- Rationale for teaching the Holocaust
- Overview of Holocaust chronology
- Historical antisemitism
- Basics of Judaism
- Interwar Jewish life in Europe***
- The Nazi rise to power
- Laws against the Jews
- Kristallnacht
- Ghettoization
- The Final Solution
- Resistance efforts
- Liberation of the camps
- The creation of Israel
- War trials and criminals
- The meaning of the Holocaust today
***denotes position of project/lesson
