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In defense of democracy, a government may need to confront aggression and ask its citizens for sacrifice in wars and providing foreign aid that, in turn, affects the practice of democracy at home. To make informed political decisions about when and ho...

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

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Rudy Herz, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Rudy Herz, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...
Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...
Renee Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Renee Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born near Warsaw in 1922, Renee Kolender experienced a good childhood until war broke out, ending school, ending everything. Children were taken from the streets to work each day. Her family was...
Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born in 1917 in Poland, Max Krautler lived there until the outbreak of the war. He grew up amidst anti-Semitism and rumors of Hitler in the newspaper prior to the war. His family was moved into a...
Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Paula Popowski was born in Poland in 1923 in a predominantly Jewish city. "I came from a very orthodox family. I didn't socialize with Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles didn't mix in public school." In the...
Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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
Ethel Stafford | S.C Voices: Lessons of Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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...
Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Born in 1920 in Greer, S.C., Horace Berry graduated from Clemson in 1941 and entered the service. As part of Patton's army, he was assigned to bury the dead and send surviving Jews to hospitals in...
Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

​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...