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In
1942, Jan Karski, a Polish courier, came to Britain
with a summary of reports on the treatment of Jews
in Polish ghettos.
His reports alerted people in Great Britain to the plight
of the Jews in Eastern Europe
- Imagine
you belong to an underground partisan
group. Collate information about the ghetto
from these testimonies in order to inform the
outside world of conditions there. Record, for
example, how the Jewish Councils operated and
how children were involved in smuggling operations.
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| 2. |
Many
difficult moral choices were made during the Holocaust.
- Fill
in the Student
worksheet: Choices. Do you think you may have
made different decisions? What are the dangers of
judging people with the benefit of hindsight?
Click
on the chronology button to see the events of the Holocaust.
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| 3. |
Some
people managed to write notes and throw them from deportation
trains.
Imagine
being deported in these conditions.
- Listen
to the testimonies in Topic 2.
- Using
evidence from these accounts, write a note to throw
from the train warning others of your experiences.
Try to describe your thoughts, feelings and the effects
a journey such as this might have.
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| 4. |
Do you consider policemen to be guilty of helping the
Nazis carry out their extermination of the Jews?
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| 5. |
Draw
a quick, spontaneous illustration contrasting a child's
life before s/he entered the ghetto with life having
entered the ghetto.
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