The Holocaust Diaries

Dr. Leo V. Kanawada

Richard Wagner

Valkries

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)“Ride of the Valkyries”

• Valkyries• Wagner• Odin (Woden)• Valhalla• Souls of Heroes

music

Chalkboard Items

• Night collaborator

Composer“Name That Tune”

(depicts, portrays, illustrates) L E G H I S T O R Y

• “The unexamined life is not worth living”• “Carpe Diem”• “sic Temper Tyrannis”

• Pixsearch• Wordsearch• Map• Time Line• Readings/Assignment

Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)

Elie Weisel

Miklos Horthy (1868-1957)

Map-Europe after World War I

Map-Europe (present day)

Map-Europe

Use Key Words, Terms, Items(persons, places, things, dates, numbers)

• Nasty• Dulles• “WEJ”• Wise• The Joint• Intrepid• “Wild Bill”• Vessel

Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969)

Stephen Samuel Wise (1875-1949)

Intrepid William Stephenson (1897-1989)

The Holocaust Diaries1

SchulteKaterina

Zolli

4Ploiesti

TransnistriaMaria

2Ra

NiceBarbiche

519

52=434,000Bari

5Long

Henny-PennyIbn Saud

Eduard Schulte (1891-1966)

Barbiche

Breckinridge Long (1881-1958)

Henny Penny Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1891-1967)

Henny Penny 2

Ibn Saud (1876-1953)King Abdulaziz

Ibn Saud 2

Tannhauser Chorus

Tannhauser

• Pilgrims Chorus

music

Bergen-Belsen 1

Bergen-Belsen 2

Bergen-Belsen 3

Bergen-Belsen 4

Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)

Anti-Jewish Laws and “Aktions”

LectureBoycottsReimbursement Gestapo StalingradDachauJehovahGypsies

TribunalIsraelNurembergKristallnachtSynagoguesGhettosSt. LouisGrynszpanLodz

AuschwitzWarsawEichmannChelmnoBelzecWannseeSobibarGendarmerie

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)

Dachau aerial map

Dachau main building wire

Dachau guard tower

Dachau buildings

Dachau Barracks

Dachau bodies

Dachau Crematorium

Dachau Crematorium 2

Liberated survivors

Kristallnacht map synagogues

Kristallnacht stores glass

Herschel Grynszpan (1921-1945/1960)

St. Louis 1

St. Louis 2

St. Louis 3

Adolph Eichmann (1906-1962)

Map Stalingrad 1942

Lines of POWs

Bodies in snow

Warsaw-Inmates

Warsaw-Wall of Inmates

Warsaw-Destroyed

Auschwitz-Aerial Map April 4, 1944

Auschwitz Gate Frei

Auschwitz Railways

Why the Jews? Why exterminate?

• Political• Economic• Social• Cultural• Religious• Psychological

• Causes• Actions• Results• Impact

(seminar, debates, student/group presentations)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Count Joseph Gobineau (1816-1882)

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Protocols 2

Protocols 3

Reasons (match)

• “Christ-Killer” • Stereotype• Scapegoat• Communists• Capitalism• Racism • Parasites • Anti-Semitism• Eugenics • “Lebensraum” • World Domination• “Uebermensch”

• Aryan Supremacy: Nazi View

• Tradition of Christian anti-Semitism International

• Political and Economic anti-Semitism• Jews equal to Bolsheviks

• Hitler’s Mein Kampf• Influence and Impact of Darwin, Nietzsche,

Gobineau

• Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Lohengrin

music

“God Bless the Child”

Billy Holiday (1915-1959) 1920s and 1930s Blues

with Tony Bennett (b. 1926)Music

“Ol’ Man River”

Show BoatMusical 1927

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein IImusic

Use Key Words, Terms, Items(persons, places, things, dates, numbers)

• Fleischmann and Weissmandel

• Europa Plan

• Vrba

• FDR “Riot Act”

• Roncalli

• Hirschmann

Gisi Fleischmann (1894-1944)

Fleischmann

Rudolph Vrba (1924-2006)

Vrba map escape

Angelo Roncalli (1881-1963)

Pope John XXIII (Roncalli)

Pope John XXIII (1958-1963)

Ira Hirschmann (1901-1989)

Book 1

• Weizsacher• Lists• Gold• Dannecker• 85 %

Ernst Weizsacher (1882-1951)

Luigi Maglione (1877-1944)

Book 2

• Donati

• “Uncle Saly Mayer”

• 4 ships

• Bagdoglio

• Ike

Angelo Donati (1885-1960)

Uncle Saly Mayer (1882-1950)

Montluc Prison

Book 3

• Hoskins

• Palestine

• 9 months

• Treasury’s Report

• WRB

Book 4

• Ion Antonescu

• Mihai Antonescu

• “Romanianization”

• Lublin

• Repatriation

Ion Antonescu (1882-1946)

Mihai Antonescu (1904-1946)

Book 5• Klessheim = 100,000• Horthy and Kallay• “Trucks/Cash for Jews”• Veesenmayer, Baky, Endre = “Kalaka”• Kastner = “Vaada”• Brand and Grosz• Auschwitz Protocols, I and II• July 20, 1944• Strasbourg, France• St. Margrethen

Schloss Klessheim

Klessheim 2

Klessheim 3

Budapest Parliament

Buda Castle

Regent Horthy (1868-1957)

Rudolf Kastner (1906-1957)

Kastner Train

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz

Auschwitz III Monowitz rubber oil

Auschwitz II Birkenau arrival

Barracks

Ladies Barracks

Forced Labor

Canada clothes

Eyeglasses

Crematorium II

Crematorium IV

Pits Bodies

Auschwitz Now

Pope Pius XII (1876-1958, 1939-1958)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945, 1933-1945)

Final Activity• “History Lego”

• “History Trivia” (Jeopardy)

• “Novelize History”

• Write paragraph; 5 or more sentences; not more than one page• Describe this man and his environment (be a novelist; create scene)• Time limit• Use 5 w’s and h• Use 5 adjectives• Use 5 key words, terms, items, dates, numbers that pertain to Holocaust

Elie Wiesel 1

Elie Wiesel 2

Elvis

“A Little Less Conversation . . . A Little More Action”

Elvis Presley (1935-1977) 1950s - 1970s

music

America

Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story”

Jazz rendition by Dave Grusin and Friends

music

Map Vietnam

Map SE Asia