Standard 7-4.6

7-4.6 Analyze the Holocaust and its impact on European society and Jewish culture, including Nazi policies to eliminate the Jews and other minorities, the Nuremberg trials, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the rise of nationalism in Southwest...

Grade(s): 7

Year: 2011

Francine Taylor, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Francine Taylor was born in Poland in 1928. Her family moved to France when she was two years old. They were living in Paris on June 14, 1940, when the French capital fell to the Germans. Suddenly the...

Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Hugo Schiller grew up in Germany in the 1930s, hearing about Hitler. His parents were forced to sell their business. In 1938, his father was arrested. His education in a public school ended when it...

Paul Pritcher | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Orangeburg County, Paul Pritcher was drafted into the military in 1943. He knew about the concentration camps, but had no firsthand knowledge. He was with the first troops to arrive at...

Jadzia Stern, Part 1 | S. C Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Those born in Poland knew that people in Europe pointed a finger at Jews all the time; some still do today. When the Germans invaded Poland, some Jews fled with Gentiles or underground, but most were...

Jadzia Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lewis Rossinger, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lesson from the Holocaust

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Lewis Rossinger was born in 1938 in Hungary. Anti-Semitism was widespread and bullies in school called him a "dirty Jew." Rossinger was caught by the Gestapo and taken to a railroad station to be...

Lewis Rossinger, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lewis Rossinger was born in 1938 in Hungary. Anti-Semitism was widespread and bullies in school called him a "dirty Jew." Rossinger was caught by the Gestapo and taken to a railroad station to be...

Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Germany in 1906, Gerald Jablon saw anti-Semitism displayed in teachers' attitudes toward Jewish students. He was sent to a work camp to dig ditches; there was no room to sleep. No one knows...

Allen Carson Wise | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Allen Wise is a native of Saluda, S.C. Graduating from medical school in 1943, he joined the Army and went to Germany. In 1945, his unit found a barn full of emaciated prisoners who had been burned to...

Leah Starkman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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When the Germans invaded Belgium, Leah Starkman and her family evacuated deep into France where they stayed until her parents were arrested. Later the children were shipped from one house to another...