To help each of you efficiently choose a topic of research, your teachers have chosen four themes – with suggestions for subtopics - on which you may do research.
1) Nazism
How did the Nazi Party orchestrate the genocide?
Subtopics: Propaganda; Nazi Youth; Collaboration; Planning
2) Resistance
In what ways did Europeans (Jews and non-Jews) and Allied Powers resist the Holocaust and were they effective?
Subtopics: Hiding Jews (children or adults); Escape; Passing as non-Jewish; Jewish resistance groups; non-Jewish resistance groups; large- scale government resistance; Liberation (end of war)
3) Remembrance, Museums and Memorials
How have survivors, participants, communities, nations and historians remembered and memorialized the experience of the Holocaust?
Subtopics: Museums; monuments; graphic novels; historical fiction; memoirs
4) Postwar Human Rights and Genocide Prevention
What efforts have nation-states, international organizations, and/or individuals taken to stop genocide after World War II?
Subtopics: Nuremberg Trials; Nazi Hunters; Extradition; Reparations; creation of Israel; International Human Rights; United Nations; Human Rights Watch
1) Nazism
How did the Nazi Party orchestrate the genocide?
Subtopics: Propaganda; Nazi Youth; Collaboration; Planning
2) Resistance
In what ways did Europeans (Jews and non-Jews) and Allied Powers resist the Holocaust and were they effective?
Subtopics: Hiding Jews (children or adults); Escape; Passing as non-Jewish; Jewish resistance groups; non-Jewish resistance groups; large- scale government resistance; Liberation (end of war)
Remembrance, Museums and Memorials
How have survivors, participants, communities, nations and historians remembered and memorialized the experience of the Holocaust?
Subtopics: Museums; monuments; graphic novels; historical fiction; memoirs
4) Postwar Human Rights and Genocide Prevention
What efforts have nation-states, international organizations, and/or individuals taken to stop genocide after World War II?
Subtopics: Nuremberg Trials; Nazi Hunters; Extradition; Reparations; creation of Israel; International Human Rights; United Nations; Human Rights Watch