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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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Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Gerald Jablon | 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 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...
Cela Miller, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Cela Miller, 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

​Cela Miller grew up in Poland during the 1920s. When the war started, the Germans burned towns and homes; removed priests, professors, and Jews. Those who turned in Jews got a kilogram of sugar. She...
Cela Miller, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Cela Miller, 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

​Cela Miller grew up in Poland during the 1920s. When the war started, the Germans burned towns and homes; removed priests, professors, and Jews. Those who turned in Jews got a kilogram of sugar. She...
Claude Hipp | S.C. Voices: Lessons from Holocaust
Claude Hipp | S.C. Voices: Lessons from Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Born in 1923 in Cross Hill, S.C., Claude Hipp was assigned to the Army infantry in North Carolina in 1943. He was shipped to Europe and marched through Camp Orsdorff where 9,000 workers had been...
Ben Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Ben 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

Staying in a ghetto in Poland in the early 1940s, Ben Stern's people wore white arm bands with the Star of David to identify themselves as Jews. Food was rationed. In 1943 they were all taken away in...
Ben Stern, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Ben 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

Ben Stern Part 1 (Length 1:02:13) Staying in a ghetto in Poland in the early 1940s, Ben Stern's people wore white arm bands with the Star of David to identify themselves as Jews. Food was rationed. In...
Bluma Goldberg | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Bluma Goldberg | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

​Bluma Goldberg grew up in Poland in a small, pretty town, with a close knit family and lots of friends. In 1939 Hitler invaded, and the whole town was burned. The Nazis took Jews, including her...
Survival | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust 9
Survival | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust
Episode 9

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Holocaust survivors discuss the determination that was required to survive under the horrid conditions. They discuss the gas chambers, the starvation, and illness, and waking up with a corpse next to...
Felix Goldberg | S. C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Felix Goldberg | 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 Poland, Felix Goldberg was captured near Warsaw in 1939 and sent to a German work camp. He worked hard on the farm in the bitter cold with little to eat. Later he was sent to Auschwitz. He...
Holocaust | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust 7
Holocaust | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust
Episode 7

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

The conditions in the camps are described in detail. In the camp, a line formed consisting of the able-bodied men and another for the old, pregnant women, young children, mothers with young children...
The Abyss | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust 6
The Abyss | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust
Episode 6

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In 1939 and 1940, more than 70,000 Germans and Austrians, such as the chronically sick and the mentally retarded, had been gassed in six special euthanasia institutions. The euthanasia program became...
Liberation | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust 10
Liberation | Seared Souls: S.C. Voices of the Holocaust
Episode 10

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Recollections of being rescued by the Red Cross are shared, including being taken to a hospital, and a first meal of milk and rice. Men and women who served in the U.S. Army tell of their arrival at...