Tuesday, 8 March

Class today is focused foremost on survivors of the Holocaust.

Students who attended the talk by Alter Wiener last Friday will be asked to share about their experiences.

Students will then be asked to take a survey that follows up on one taken earlier this year.

Then students will be asked to read and respond to the following stories from the news this month.

First students are asked to read about the Nuremberg Trials that followed World War II. Students should take notes on WHO was involved; WHEN they happened; WHERE they occurred; WHAT prompted them to be held; WHAT happened; and WHY they were important.

Then students are to read the following stories from the news this month. Students may read all the stories, or stop and respond in between, or work with the material in another way that makes sense to them. Students might consider how the current trial is similar to and different from the Nuremberg trials.

1) Auschwitz trial: survivor urges guard to reveal his role at death camp

2) Auschwitz trial: Ex-guard Reinhold Hanning in German court

3) Auschwitz trial: three survivors describe horrors of Holocaust

4) Auschwitz trial: former guard 'made hell possible', says witness born inside camp