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Essential Questions:
How did German Jewish citizens become outcasts in the age of the Nazis?
What type of experiences did they have that we need to understand today?

Station 1: ​Audio/ Visual representation (People to Technology)

Audio
Floor: 3
Room: Voices from Auschwitz
Description: Real life survivors from Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland talking
about their experiences inside the camp and how they were treated.

1. Go to the following link and read the quotes and background on Auschwitz.
https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/liberation-of-a
uschwitz
2. Discuss the similarities and differences of the peoples stories. What information is
repeating and what is something that you just learned?

Station 2:​ ​Information Seeking: Secondary Sources

Object: Summary/Caption
Floor: 4
Room: The “Science” of Race
Description: Paragraphs explaining how racism was a large part of Nazi culture and how
Hitler decided what was to be the ‘superior race.’

1. Read the three paragraphs explaining how Hitler and his Nazis formed their ‘superior
race.’ ​https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/permanent
(look to first picture on this page)
2. Draw a picture of what you think a person that follows Hitler’s description of the
‘superior race’ should look like. Be sure to add a short caption to the drawing adding in
details that can’t be shown through your drawing.
3. Compare your picture with the drawings of the other people in your group. While
comparing, consider these questions: Are all of the pictures more or less the same? Were
 there any differences? What does this mean about how Hitler’s laws were enforced? How
well was he able to get his point across? How did this enforce segregation for Jews?
4. Above and Beyond:​ Look up images of what Hitler used to represent the superior race.
Does it compare well to your own drawings?

Station 3:​ Information Seeking: Primary Sources

Object/visual: Quote
Floor: 1
Room: Entry point
Description: Elie Wiesel describing his opinion of the museum.

“This Museum is not an answer. It is a question.”

~Elie Wiesel

1. Discuss the quote with your group. Do you agree? Why or why not? What do you think
the Museum’s question is? What answers can we still not provide about the Holocaust?
Why not? Do you think it is good to leave some questions in history unanswered? Why or
why not?
2. This quote was hanging up in the first room in the Holocaust Museum and introduced the
museum to its visitors. Find a different quote that you think would work just as well, if
not better, in this place.

Station 4:​ ​Reflection (Text to Self)

Object/Visual: Photo Collection

Floor: 4
Room: Shtetl (collection)
Description: A hall of many photos between the years of 1890-1941 of people in just one
small town

1. As you walk through the hall of pictures taking place between 1890 and 1941, what do
you notice about these everyday families that soon became involved in the Holocaust.
What do you notice? Can you connect aspects of your life to any of the people in the
photos? Do you even consider something like the Holocaust having a recurrence?
2. Find a photo that you feel you connect to the most and compare it to one of your own
photos. Write a scenario that could happen closely after the picture that relates to the rise
of Hitler.
Station 5:​ ​Discussion: (People to People)
Object: Newspaper
Floor: 4
Room: Takeover of Power
Description: German newspaper explaining how Adolf Hitler is the new Chancellor of
Germany.

1. Examine this German newspaper evaluating Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor.

What do you notice? What do you think the paper said? If you were a German citizen
reading this page, what would be your thoughts at first glance?
 2. Now, check out this American newspaper from around the same time. What similarities
and differences do you notice? Is there any bias you notice in either of the papers? Why
is this important?

Station 6:​ ​Literary Connections (Text to Text)

Text: “Babi Yar” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Floor: 3
Room:
Description​: ​a quote from a part of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Poem

1. Read and SIFT “Babi Yar” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian poet).

http://www.lamoth.org/visitor-information/guide-to-the-museum/museum-panels/room-3
-war-ghettoization-exter/babi-yar/babi-yar-poem/
2. Read and SIFT “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
3. Create a Venn diagram to show the similarities and differences between the poems
regarding the feelings of someone during WW1, compared to the Holocaust.
Station 7:​ ​Experiential (Activity or Art)

Object/ Visual: Workshop Tools

Floor: 3
Room: Łódź Ghetto
Description: Sewing machines and irons that were found in the Łódź Ghetto

1. Observe the workshop tools that were found in the Łódź Ghetto and create a list of the
items you see and what they are used for.
2. Now imagine you are now living in the Łódź Ghetto with a family to support, with
resources running low, you have to sell off all of your tools except one for money for
food. Have everyone in your group make their own decision as to which item they would
choose.
3. Have each person go around and explain what they chose and why. After hearing
everyone’s perspective try to come to a group census on what your final decision would
be.
4. Above and Beyond:​ How would lack of these tools change living habits? Talk about how
lack of money, food, and resources put people of the Łódź Ghetto at a disadvantage from
the start.