Standard 7-4.5

7-4.5 Summarize the causes and course of World War II, including drives for empire, appeasement and isolationism, the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the "Final Solution," the Lend-Lease program, Pearl Harbo...

Grade(s): 7

Year: 2011

Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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In April 1945, just before the war's end, Lon Redman encountered his first concentration camp—Flossenburg. There was no organized resistance against the American soldiers. They easily evacuated the...

Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Martha Bauer and her family lived in Belgium. When Hitler took over, children were taught to hate all Jews. She was careful with childhood friendships and would not even walk with non-Jewish friends...

Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Vienna in 1914, Felix Bauer lived with anti-Semitism even before Hitler's takeover of Austria. When the Nazis invaded, his father said, "Nobody will do anything to me." But the killings...

Ethel Stafford | S.C Voices: Lessons of Holocaust

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Born in New York, Ethel Stafford graduated from nurses' training in 1944, went in the Army, and was transferred to Europe. She didn't know what was happening to Jews. The medical staff she was with...

Senator John Drummond | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Greenwood, S.C., in 1919, John Drummond joined the Air Force and went to England. He was captured by the Nazis and shipped to a prison camp in Frankfurt where Americans were interrogated. Next...

Senator Strom Thurmond | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Senator Strom Thurmond was with the 1st Army all through the war in Europe. They encountered Buchenwald near Leipzig, and he recalls "never having seen the like of what I saw there." He relays that...

Henry Allen | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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The Horry County native was sent to Fort Bragg, N.C. and then to Europe in 1945. In April 1945 at Ohrdruf Death Camp, he saw stacks of dead bodies and those left alive suffering from acute...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Joe Engel was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1927. His father ran a luncheonette grocery. He went to public school in a small Jewish community and felt the animosity created by anti-Semitism. In 1942 all...

Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Pincus Kolender was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1940 synagogues, schools, and businesses were closed to Jews, who were placed in ghettos. One always felt trapped in the ghetto. The Nazis treated people...

Rev. George Chassy | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Reverend George Chassy, an Episcopal priest in Columbia, joined the Air Force right after Pearl Harbor. He was part of the invasion at Normandy Beach. He found it incredible what Nazi power had done...