Memory and Legacy: Preparing to Learn from Descendants of Holocaust Survivors
In this classroom video, explore how framing a lesson around the importance of memory using classroom discussion and journaling can prepare students to learn from survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants.
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Adolf Hitler During 1932 Campaign
Adolf Hitler talks to a young girl during his campaign for president of Germany in 1932. Hitler lost to incumbent Paul von Hindenburg.
![Adolf Hitler has his hand placed on a young girl in a white dress as he speaks with her](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image17_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f85ebe8&itok=4T71wftn)
Adolf Hitler durante la campaña de 1932
Adolf Hitler habla con una jovencita durante su campaña a la presidencia de Alemania en 1932. Hitler perdió ante el presidente de turno, Paul von Hindenburg.
![Adolf Hitler has his hand placed on a young girl in a white dress as he speaks with her](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image17_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f85ebe8&itok=4T71wftn)
Adolf Hitler, 1924
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1924. In the early 1920s, Hitler was attracting thousands of new members to the Nazi Party.
![Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a brown trenchcoat, shirt, and tie.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image16_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f84f9a1&itok=JLVoClZ0)
Book Burning in Berlin
Students contribute anti-German books to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning on May 10, 1933. About 40,000 people attended the event.
![Crowds of young men are adding books to a dumpster to be destroyed at a Berlin book-burning.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Book%20Burning%20in%20Berlin.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=y962Ef7g)
Bar Mitzvah at Zerrennerstrasse Synagogue
A bar mitzvah at the liberal Zerrennerstrasse synagogue in Pforzheim, Germany, 1936.
![Boy reads Torah while surrounded by adults during bar mitzvah](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Bar%20Mitzvah%20at%20Zerrennerstrasse%20Synagogue.jpg?h=048697cd&itok=9qzQhHYf)
Confiscation of Prisoners’ Belongings
These men were determined fit enough to perform hard labor. Their heads were shaved and their clothes replaced with prison uniforms.
![Men in prison uniform and shaved heads stand in line.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Confiscation%20of%20Prisoners%E2%80%99%20Belongings.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=F4zP7Q1K)
Former SS Member Oskar Groening
Defendant Oskar Gröning, a former SS member, at a courtroom in Lüneburg, Germany, April 21, 2015. Gröning, age 93, was found guilty of aiding in the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz and sentenced to four years in prison.
![Photograph of Oskar Groning, a former SS member on trial in Germany in 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Former%20SS%20Member%20Oskar%20Groening.jpg?h=312fc7ac&itok=kcIwNaul)