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Holocaust 101 for Sensitive Learners

In this one time class students will explore and discover the Nazi's Final Solution in a sensitive and non-graphic manner. The ideas and concepts of Jewish extermination will be taught, without the graphic images.
Phyllis Bixler - Just Help Me Learn, LLC
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:
(346)
Class

What's included

1 live meeting
1 hrs 10 mins in-class hours
Assessment
Informal assessment with a virtual quiz at the conclusion.

Class Experience

US Grade 7 - 10
We will examine how Nazi Germany economically and socially disenfranchised Jewish people while running a euthanasia program called T4 to eliminate lesser desired members of German society (disabled, elderly, mentally handicapped, etc.). The class will encompass a memo issued by the Nazi Foreign Ministry in 1939 to the Wannsee Conference in 1942, to the end of the war in 1945 and how Nazi policies evolved and were coordinated to murder as many Jewish people as possible. 

Content is presented via slides, videos, images and discussion.  Students are encouraged to ask questions, summarize and analyze the content shared throughout the class.


Discussion and interaction are required elements of this class and students are STRONGLY urged to use their cameras and microphones in order to receive the full benefits of this class. 

**********PLEASE READ*************
Outschool has recently changed its policy regarding class cancellations. We know how disappointing canceled classes can be for learners, so we too are amending our policy.  In the past we have waited for late enrollees, of which we have had MANY!  Unfortunately we can no longer do that. 

Instead we will evaluate class enrollment for ongoing classes on teach Sunday at 5pm Eastern.  IF enrollment falls below 3 students, we will push the class back a week and offer students a refund for the missed class.  When other sections are available students will have the option to transfer to another class. 

For one time, camp and multi day classes we will postpone the start of the class if enrollment falls below 3 learners 48 hours before the class is scheduled to begin.  Full refunds will be provided for learners who cannot attend the newly scheduled class time. 
 
Thank you for understanding, and for your loyalty.

Transfer requests within 24 hours of a scheduled class will NOT be approved.  At that point it is too late to reschedule the class, and it is unfair to other families who may have enrolled thinking there were multiple learners enrolled. Instead students will be encouraged to watch the video of the class.

The class will be taught in 4 sections:
     Economic and Social Disenfranchisement
     Relocation, Forced Labor, Ghettos
     The T4 Program vs. The Final Solution
     Systematic annihilation on multiple fronts

While this class will not include graphic imagery, words like murder, annihilation, extermination, death camps and concentration camps are used.  Images of concentration camps, gas chambers, and prisoners may be included in the presentation.  Sensitive students are encouraged to enroll but know that while the imagery is not horrific, the nature of the content may be difficult to absorb without emotion.

Of additional note is that the horrific atrocities are presented from a historical perspective that humanizes the victims.  The teacher has vast experience with teaching this to young people and the limits of what they can absorb during a short class. 

ONLY students with prior knowledge of WWII and the Holocaust should enroll in this class.  The minimum age will be adhered to strictly.
Learning Goals
Students will trace the evolution of the German plan to exterminate Jews from a concept to practice that led to the deaths of over 6 million.
Students will identify the difference between ghettos, concentration camps and death marches.
Students will examine the simultaneous operations in Russia and Europe to implement the Final Solution.
Students will describe the transition from the T4 program to the mass killing of Jews with gas.
learning goal

Other Details

Parental Guidance
This class includes a systematic plan to annihilate an entire race of people, and how the perpetrators set out to accomplish their goals. Included is information about concentration camps, ghettos, work camps, separation of families, gas chambers, the Einsatzgruppen death squads, medical experiments on women and children, rape and murder. Images of death, starvation and violence have been excluded from the presentation.
Supply List
Paper and a writing instrument may be helpful.  Print out the KWL Worksheet with the welcome message.
 1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
  • Yad Vashem
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • PBS
  • Echoes and Reflections
  • Facing History
Joined September, 2020
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346reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Ohio Teaching Certificate in English/Language Arts
Phyllis Bixler, M.Ed., NBCT
Master's Degree in Education from Lourdes College
Phyllis Bixler, M.Ed., NBCT
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Auburn University
Tina Kaye Houston
I am a Holocaust trained educator who has taught the Holocaust through literature and primary source documents to students in grades 7 through 10.  I have studied at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a 3-week seminar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem with 36 other educators from around the world. Additionally I have hosted an educator workshop on Holocaust Education and collaborated with the creators of the Echoes and Reflections curriculum. 

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Meets once
70 min

Completed by 14 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-17
2-12 learners per class

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