Holocaust Rescue

Subject: Social Studies

Grade Levels: 9 through 12

Objectives:

• to understand the perspective of a survivor and/or a liberator Sunshine State Standards:
  • Grades 9-12
    • SS.A.1.4.3, 3.4.9, 5.4.5
    • SS.C.1.4.1, 2.4.3
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  Materials:

  All materials are available through the Florida Holocaust Museum; St. Petersburg, Florida.

  1. State of Florida Resource Manual on Holocaust Education, Grades 9-12, 1999 (Please Note: One copy was sent to every high school in the State of Florida in June, 1999.)
  Procedure:
  1. Read excerpts and testimonies of rescuers in Unit 8 of the State of Florida Resource Guide. Discuss what motivated people to be rescuers and to take the risks necessary to save Jews from the Nazi terror.
  

  

  

  A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
  Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
  College of Education, University of South Florida ©2001.