You will turn in a 5-page thesis driven paper on a subtopic that you have chosen from the list presented by your teacher.
Your paper will use Chicago Style footnotes and bibliography.
All students in our class will be researching the experience of the Holocaust. It was a deeply distressing moment in history, but one that warrants--in fact demands--study in the hope of illuminating both the depths to which humans can sink when allowed to misuse the processes of government and the lengths to which humans can go in the quest to help one another survive.
Four primary sources. A primary source is a source contemporary to the event, place or person you are examining.
Two secondary sources. A secondary source is a source written about the event, place or person you are examining after the fact.
To find your sources use the links on this guide and in Spence and local libraries to find information. The resources on the guide have been evaluated for quality and usefulness.
There are many untrustworthy websites about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. If you find a source you would like to use not listed here, make sure to get it approved by Ms. Kane or your teacher.
By using the sources provided here you will be able to focus on finding the best sources to answer your research question and prove your thesis.
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