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PerpetratorsSlide2
Think:
What is the difference between guilt and responsibility?
What determines whether you are guilty or not? Slide3
Watch:
Go to Echoesandreflections.org
Go to Lessons
Lesson Components
Click the plus sign next to Lesson 9
READ the bio pdfs for Jan
Karski
and Dennis
Urstein
, then WATCH the video clips under their names
WRITE:
In his testimony, Jan
Karski
talks about his meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. How does he say Roosevelt responded to his questions about what he should tell the Polish people?
Does Jan
Karski
feel that the President’s response was adequate? How do you know?
What does Dennis
Urstein
say about what was learned from the Holocaust?
Who does Dennis believe was guilty for the Holocaust and why?
Dennis uses the question “What are we doing about it?” as a call to action. What is he asking people to do? Slide4
Read:
On my webpage, select and read
Salitter’s
Report
It is important to know that the men who took jobs like
Salitter’s
were not forced to do so and the job was considered prestigious.
WRITE on your paper the tone of this report. What language is used to make you think that this is the tone? Slide5
Write:
What
are the main issues that
Salitter
refers to in the report?
In his report on the argument he had with the stationmaster,
Salitter
complains that the latter clearly does not know the meaning of the term “Jew” and its implications. What does this seem to indicate about
Salitter’s
attitude toward the task he is performing?
What appears to be
Salitter’s
reason for recommending that the Jews be provided with water?
Why might
Salitter
have attempted to put children with their mothers?
What are the possible motives for collaborating with the Germans if you were not German yourself?
Make a list of all the people appearing in the document who participated in the deportation and ultimate fate of Jews in the transport. Next to each person’s name (or role) on the list, determine, on a scale of 1-4, each person’s level of responsibility in what happened to the Jews.
1= Not responsible
2= Minimally responsible
3= Somewhat responsible
4= Guilty