What is an Oral History the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events Fighting in WW2 Topics Group ID: 642474
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Oral HistoriesWW2 and the Holocaust
What is an Oral History?
the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events.Slide2
Fighting in WW2
Topics/ Group
Individual Accounts/ Summation
(what stands out to you about the video?)
Common Traits Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy What did these interviews have in common? Vernon Baker – US Army 101st Airborne Company –Battle of the Bulge Slide3
Soldiers Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cefkmXCWaHk
Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy
http://
www.nationalww2museum.org/see-hear/collections/focus-on/vernon-baker.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPjrN-QBMlQ&index=5&list=PLxZMztN5prZk4IBqkEDy2fRRPfAD1ryThVernon Baker – US Army101st Airborne Company – Battle of the BulgeSlide4
Civilians – Targets in Total War
Country
Number of Deaths
Poland
3 millionUSSR1 millionRomania350,000Hungary250,000Czech.250,000Germany165,000Lithuania130,000Netherlands105,000Latvia70,000France
65,000
Austria
65,000
Greece
65,000
Yugoslavia
60,000
Bulgaria
48,000
Belgium
25,000Slide5
Phases
PersecutionLaws established to restrict rights
Pogroms such as
kristallnacht
ConfinementGhettos and 1st Camps Mass Murders Eisengruppen (death squads) traveled followed the main German Army and kill thousands of individuals (deemed to time consuming & bad for the German soldiers)Final SolutionMass murders in death campsSlide6Slide7
Shoah “destruction”
In 1994, Steven Spielberg founded the
Survivors of the
Shoah
Visual History Foundation (original title), a nonprofit organization established to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.http://www.youtube.com/user/USCShoahFoundation?blend=24&ob=5Slide8
Reflections on Holocaust Survivor stories*pick three Holocaust survivor stories to watch
Questions
What stood out to you about each of these stories?
How
do the German’s dehumanize (take away the individuality) the prisoners? Videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FB2QbPl2shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krR1uJ0nveQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9TECGADhQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOqhZnb_Z8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3glQLZmERs&list=PLEB019EC0423846C0&index=74Slide9
Survivor’s Stories Questions:
Questions for everyone:
Describe what happens to the prisoners immediately after arriving at Auschwitz.
(what is the process that the Germans put the prisoners through?)
How do the German’s dehumanize (take away the individuality) the prisoners? MAUS II: a survivor’s tale1. How did the main character reunite with his wife in Auschwitz?2. What camp were the women in? How was this camp different from Auschwitz I?3. What type of work did the prisoners do in the camp?