Japanese Internment Camp
What is a ghetto? What do you think of when you hear the
word “ghetto”? Define ghetto here:
What adjectives did you use to define a ghetto? Are they the
same adjectives used to describe a ghetto at the time of the
Holocaust?
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Listen to the audio guide to learn
about Executive Order 9066.
Hartheim Castle
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Countries
We have 18 touch screens with information on different
camps. Historians estimate that there were over 40,000
Ghettos and Camps across Europe.
What is a stereotype?
Analyze it: These books were
designed for young children in
Nazi Germany. What do they tell us
about the lessons that were taught
to children in Nazi Germany?
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ONSET OF WAR,
GHETTOIZATION
RISE OF NAZISM
THE WORLD THAT WAS
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and open
*Explore
the drawers, they
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Concentration camp I studied:
The artifacts in this case are on
loan to Los Angeles Museum of
the Holocaust from the AuschwitzBirkenau State Museum. All of
them belonged to people who
arrived there and were taken to be
killed or into slave labor. Imagine,
we may never know the name of the
child whose cup this was. We may
never know the names of his or her
family. How do we commemorate and
give honor to those we cannot name?
This is a replica of a cattle card that was used
to forcibly transport or deport Jews across
Europe to ghettos and concentration
camps. This replica was built for the
original museum and was an important
way for the Survivors who created the
Museum to convey this history.
Artistic Responses
What do you notice about the video?
What does this tell you about what
people knew about where they were going?
How can art be a response to the Holocaust? Find a few
artistic responses - sketch or describe. What does it make
you feel and think?
Analyze it: Describe
the object. What does it
look like? Where was it
made? How could you find
out?
Primary Source:
A document,
photograph, or object
created during the
time under study. In
this case, during the
Holocaust.
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Monument
Use prior knowledge: What was this used for?
Infer: Why would someone bring this with
them to the camps? What makes it special?
Stand next to the Monument,
what do you notice? Have you
seen other monuments? How
is this one similar? How is it
different?
Compare it: How is it similar to or different
from other objects in the case?
Interpret: What stories does this object tell?
Newspapers
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LABOR,
CONCENTRATION,
DEATH CAMPS
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WORLD RESPONSE,
RESISTANCE,
AND RESCUE
LIFE AFTER LIBERATION
SPECIAL EXHIBITS
THE TREE OF TESTIMONY
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Genocide
With a partner, come up with a
definition of Genocide.
Resistance
Resistance
What was the Rosenstrasse
Women’s protest?
Define:
Righteous among Nations
Reflect: Why did some people become rescuers?
Reflect: What is Sobibor? Who made this camp model
and why?
Now compare it to Dr. Lemkins
definition.
Analyze it: What do you think of when you
hear the work “resistance”? What is spiritual
resistance? What is intellectual resistance?
Testimony:
A spoken statement
about a past event.
Liberation
What does it mean to be liberated?
Holocaust & Music
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How did music
sustain this family?
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Examine the Los Angeles Times
and LA Examiner Newspapers.
1. How did the LA Times cover
the plight of the European Jews?
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642, 645
Analyze it: What stands out to you when you
look at this camp model?
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Start
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Auschwitz Artifacts Hallway
Replica Rail Car
DEPORTATION
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Sobibor Model
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are filled with
original artifacts
Explore one of the 18 touch screens. What strikes you about
this? What do you see? Share what you find with a partner.
Find two photos that stand out to you. Write about them here:
What photos of your own would you want to keep or share
All of these photos depict pre-war with others in the future? Why? Draw or describe one here:
Jewish life in Europe. If these
families hadn’t kept theirs, we may
not know what Jewish life was like
before the war. What do you
notice about the photos? It is
difficult to collect photos of those
who perished during the Holocaust.
Why do you think that is? To whom
are photos valuable? Do they have
monetary or sentimental value?
What is Propaganda?
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Find the percentages chart.
What were some differences between
countries? What does this mean to you?
What does it mean for over 30%, 50%,
80% of a community to be destroyed?
What happened to this specific culture?
Memory Pool
What does it mean for someone to lose their
citizenship? How do you think these laws affected the
daily lives of German Jews?
T-4 Program: The Nazi’s first systematic
mass murder was planned against
mentally and physically disabled
German and Austrian citizens.
How does this Nazi policy relate to their
policy against the European Jews?
In your own words, define the process of Ghettoization.
Touchscreens
Nuremburg Laws: Anti-Jewish statutes put in place
by Nazi Germany in September of 1935. These laws
legalized the Nazi racial ideology. They stripped
German Jews of their citizenship, forbade German
Jews from flying t he N azi fl ag, de fined who was
Jewish based on ideas of “race,” and prohibited
relationships between Jews and non-Jews.
Tree of TestimonY
Look around. What does the
structure with the TV screens
look like to you? Why do you
think this shape was chosen?
Who are the people on the
screen? Where are they?
Choose one testimony to listen
to. What are they talking about?
What is around them? What
emotions do you sense? Share
with a partner.
2. What are other stories reported
on the same page?
Write down some notes from what you hear.
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Art & Memory Student Reflection Map ©2017
What is a Ghetto?