Preconditions for the Holocaust: Prejudice in 20th Century Europe
Scholar Doris Bergen describes some of the preconditions that contributed to Nazi violence in World War II and the Holocaust.
Preparing for the Kindertransport
Vera Gissing, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia, recalls how her family prepared her for the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that brought thousands of Jewish refugee children to Great Britain.
Protecting Jews
Former Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman describes finding shelter for Jews who could not join the partisans' resistance efforts.
Questions of Complicity: France and the Nazi Occupation
Scholar Aliza Luft discusses the changes that took place in France when the Nazis invaded in 1940.
Jewish Life before World War II
Historian Jeffrey Shandler describes Jewish life in Poland before World War II. Until 1933-1935 Polish Jews were not concerned by Europe’s changing political or social climate. Polish Jews believed they lived in post-war, not pre-war, Poland.
Marched to the Ghetto
Holocaust survivor Barbara Fischman Traub describes the reactions of her neighbors as she and her family were marched through their hometown of Sighet, Hungary, to the ghetto during the Holocaust.
Night of the Long Knives: Jonathan Petropoulos
Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the importance of the 1934 violent purge in the Nazi party.
No Human Being Was Born Illegal
Students at a school in Los Angeles raise awareness about derogatory labels used to describe individuals who immigrated to the United States as well as those who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Brief History of Paragraph 175 in Germany
This handout provides a selection of dates and events that align with the content explored in the Paragraph 175 lesson and accompanying film.
Brief History of Paragraph 175 in Germany (en español)
This handout provides a selection of dates and events that align with the content explored in the Paragraph 175 lesson and accompanying film. This resource is in spanish.
Looking Back at 1920s-early 1930s Germany
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This clip from the documentary Paragraph 175 introduces four survivors of the Holocaust: three gay men and one Jewish lesbian woman.