My Web Quest: Good luck!
Visit the homepage of Holocaust Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144)
You will find all information under the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Click on Holocaust Encyclopedia on the far left side
Scroll and under the heading The Holocaust click “Nazi camps” and read the article below
1. What did the Nazi’s do in concentration camps?
Stay on the same page and you’ll find the answer to the next question:
2. What was the first extermination camp called and in which year did it open?
Within the page, click an interview under the name of “Describes arrival at the Stutthof camp”
Personal stories and select “Describes arrival at Auschwitz”, you may watch or read the interview.
3. Step inside one of the soldier’s shoes, what do you think the soldier felt when he did his duty, when he “beat” his victims?
Then, go back to the page with the Holocaust Encyclopedia and under “Victims of the Nazi era” select Children during the Holocaust, and answer the question bellow:
4. How do you think the children felt when they “smuggled” food and medicine?
Click back to the Holocaust Encyclopedia and open up “Mosaic of Victims”
5. What do you think “Mosaic of victims” means?
Then type in “Jehovah’s witnesses” and press enter, next click on the first result. Click on “See more photographs” and finally scroll down to “The Kusserow family”, answer the question
6. How would you interpret their condition in this picture? How did this change after the Nazi’s came into power?
Next, go to pogroms under the Holocaust Encyclopedia section and scroll until you see a picture with scrolls, click on “See more artifacts” and select “Pages of Hebrew prayer books damaged during…” or the second picture…
7. Being religious yourself, how would you feel if you were the one cleaning up a whole lot of prayer books damaged so heartlessly?
Go a page back and read paragraph 3:
8. Why do you think Adolf Hitler or the Nazi’s tried to put a stop to violence? (We talked about this in class)
Click on Gassing operations on the “Holocaust Encyclopedia” page, and click on see more photographs, scroll down until you see “Gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz ...” click on it and answer the question:
9. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you look at this image? What gives the photo its power? (Theme, lighting etc.)
10. How does the information above change the way you look at the Holocaust? Does it give you a glimpse at how the victims suffered?
