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Year 9
Victims and perpetrators
I can assess different experiences of and responses to the Holocaust.
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Year 9
Victims and perpetrators
I can assess different experiences of and responses to the Holocaust.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Six million Jews from many different backgrounds were murdered during the Holocaust.
- Many people acted as perpetrators during the Holocaust.
- Many more people knew about the Holocaust but did not intervene.
- There were Holocaust perpetrators and collaborators across Europe.
Keywords
Collaborator - a person or group who works together with others for a particular purpose
Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
Bystander - in the context of the Holocaust, a person who did not intervene to help Jews or resist their persecution
Common misconception
Only German Nazis were involved in the Holocaust.
Examples such as the Vel' d'Hiv Raid in France, carried out in 1942, show that other Europeans collaborated and helped to perpetrate the Holocaust.
Tell students that it was not until 1995 that the French government accepted responsibility and apologised for the Vel' d'Hiv Raid. Ask whether they find this surprising and why they think it took the French so long to do so.
Teacher tip
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
- Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
- Depiction or discussion of serious crime
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
What name did the Nazis give to their plans to murder all European Jews?
Q2.
Write the missing word. Gas chambers were constructed in camps like Belzec.
Q3.
What happened to the number of Jewish people living under Nazi rule during the first two years of World War Two (WW2)?
remained the same
decreased
Q4.
How many factories did the Nazis set up in Lodz ghetto?
Q5.
Roughly how many Holocaust victims were murdered outside of gas chambers?
25%
75%
Q6.
Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which word best describes a guard involved in shooting or gassing Jews at extermination camps during the Holocaust?
bystander
collaborator
Q2.
The Holocaust murdered Jews of what age?
working age Jews
Jewish children
elderly Jews
Q3.
Which country did the Vel' d'Hiv Raid take place in?
Belgium
Germany
Poland
Q4.
Which statement about Rudolf Höss is most accurate?
He carried out his job only because he feared being punished.
Many people described him as mentally unwell.
Q5.
Identify the most appropriate example of a Schreibtischtäter.
Rudolf Höss
Auschwitz guards
Théophile Larue
Q6.
Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
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