Research the Holocaust

Our partners from GVC have asked us to participate in a Holocaust project. Please visit the link below:
1. Holocaust Museum Online Exhibit-Please watch the following videos:
**Do not go alone; take a friend with you. These are not pleasant stories, but they are true.**

• Life Reborn-Found under Aftermath
  
• Do You Remember When-Found under documentation and evidence
  
• Personal Histories- Found under General Reference
  
• Life in the Shadows-Found under children
  
• Anne Frank the writer-Found under children
  
• Silent Witness-Found under children
  

2. Write a Reflection answering the following: [see examples]

• What makes you who you are? (thoughts, beliefs, actions, name, family history, physical characteristics, personality, skills/talents, language, religious background, likes/dislikes – such as food, clothes, hobbies, music…)
• What things that make you who you are, can you change?
• Which things can you not change?
• Do you ever make a conscious effort to change any of those things? When and why? How easy/hard is it?
• Are you different around certain people? Are you still the same you inside if you act differently?
• Do you know someone with whom you can always ‘be yourself’?

3. Write journal entry on the following: [see examples]

• People hiding during he Holocaust had little choice about changing their identities. They had to change to survive. It could have meant learning a new language, practicing a new religion, taking a new name, or even changing the way they looked. If you had to speak a new language, change religion, citizenship, physical appearance, would you do it voluntarily? Why or why not?
• Choose one memory from the exhibit that you said most affected you. (You can even go back and get a quote if you like.) Describe why you reacted to that particular one. Did it remind you of some person or experience in your own life? Or could you imagine yourself in that person’s situation and wonder what you would do?
• What did those in hiding have to give up?
• How did their lives change?
• How did they themselves change?
• What problems and dangers did they face?
• What were their hopes and fears?
• After the war, were they able to go back to “normal life”?

4. Create a 30 second IMovie capturing the emotional impact of the Holocaust. I encourage you to use quotes, images, and music.

5. Click here to read about Butterfly Project:

• Create your own butterfly in Photoshop, flash, or you can even hand draw. We will be sharing these with the students in Israel.