Holocaust(s)?
An Internet Sampler on Holocaust
Created by Daniel
Bancroft
Harrisville Central School
Introduction | Internet Activities
| Conclusion
| HyperText Dictionary
The purpose of this Web page is to give the student
a sampling of resources that document different holocausts and genocides. Each
of the seven resources linked to this Web page has an assignment associated
with it. After examining the web sites and completing the associated
assignments, the student will write a 500 word essay in which they will address
the following questions:
1) Who can genocide occur to?
2) Where can genocide occur?
3) When can genocide occur?
4) Whose responsibility is it to stop genocide from occurring?
Warning: Some of the photographs are extremely graphic. Viewer discretion is
advised.
Activity I:
1.
Click On: Online Exhibitions, Hidden History of
Kovno Ghetto, Continue, Continue, Introduction (hidden at top of screen). Read
the introduction and examine the rest of the website.
2.
As you examine the website, briefly describe the
contents of each of the following sections:
a.
Invasion.
b.
Mass Murder.
c.
Ghettoization.
d.
Inside the Ghetto.
e.
Secret Archives.
f.
Final Days.
Activity II:
Click On: Introduction.
1.
Read the introduction (Yes-all of it!) and then go
back to the main index.
2.
Skim for files that look interesting. Do not
attempt to examine every file in this website. Choose any five files and skim
them.
3.
For each file you selected, list three facts that
were presented.
Activity III:
Click On: Survivor and Eyewitness Accounts/Anne
Smith's Family Story.
1.
Read Anne Smith's account of the experiences her
family endured.
2.
Why was Anne Smith concerned about her cousins and
sisters becoming Americanized?
3.
Why did Anne think it was
necessary to put her story on the Internet?
Activity IV:
1.
Read the introduction to the website entitled
'American Holocaust'.
2.
According to the author of this website, some
people object to the use of the term 'Holocaust' being applied to the history
of U.S. treatment toward its own indigenous people.
3.
Summarize the author's point of view and conclude
with your own opinion.
Activity V:
1.
Click On: Cambodian Killing Fields and then Next (7
times).
2.
Read the section entitled “Killing Fields”.
3.
How did Pol Pot gain power and how did he maintain
it throughout his regime?
4.
Do you think that Pol Pot had planned everything
from the beginning or do you think that his good intentions went horribly
wrong? Support your answer with details from the web site.
Activity VI:
1.
Read the introductory text and examine the various
photo essays.
2.
Write a short story about a day in the life of an
imaginary Serbian child living in Kosovo.
a.
Be sure to use all you know about short stories that
you learned in English class.
i.
Character development.
ii.
Plot.
iii.
Setting.
iv.
Focus especially on character development and
setting.
3.
This assignment will count as two English 10 grades
and two Global Studies 10 grades.
Activity VII:
1.
Read this website and examine the photographs.
2.
Summarize the author's point of view concerning the
famine in the Ukraine.
3.
Do you agree with the author’s point of view? Why or why not?