Homework # 10: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Homework # 10: Anti-Semitism and

Homework # 10: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Homework # 10: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
Instructions:
Watch the 3 documentaries and read the excerpts from the Diary of Anne Frank and then write a reflection that is at least 400 words. You don’t have to answer every question, but you can use them as a starting point. Submit homework on Canvas Assignments.
1) Watch can we learn about the Holocaust from these documentaries?
2) What can we learn about Anti-Semitism from these documentaries?
3) Choose 1 scene to analyze and explain why you find it interesting or important.
4) What can we learn about the Nazis and the Holocaust from the diary of Anne Frank?
5) Choose 1 quote or passage from the diary to analyze and explain why you find it interesting or important.
German Concentration Camp Factual Survey
Watch German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (2014) – Free Movies | Tubi (tubitv.com)Links to an external site.
A Night at the Garden
A Night at The Garden – Field of Vision – YouTubeLinks to an external site.
Charlottesville: Race and Terror
Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight on HBO – YouTubeLinks to an external site.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Bantam Books, 2021.
Introduction
When Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, some Jews like Otto Frank, decided to take their families and leave the country to escape the Nazis violent anti-Semitism. The Frank family relocated to the Netherlands, where they thought they would be safe, but when Hitler started World War II in 1939, and then invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 1942, the Franks were once again at risk. To avoid being shipped off to a concentration camp and killed, the Frank family went into hiding with the help of some Dutch friends. Unfortunately, in 1944 the Nazis discovered the Franks and shipped them all off to concentration camps, where many of them died, including Anne Frank. This is Anne Frank’s diary, which she kept from 1942 to 1944. It is not only the story of a 13 year old girl, but the story of strength in the face of great evil. It is a story of hope and a testament to the human spirit and it continues to inspire people today.

Saturday June 20, 1942
-“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater need to get all kinds of things off my chest.” (8)
-“After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the troubled started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were forbidden to use streetcars; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 P.M.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.; Jews were forbidden to go to theaters, movies or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields; Jews were forbidden to go rowing; Jews were forbidden to take part in any athletic activity in public; Jews were forbidden to sit in their gardens or those of their friends after 8 P.M.; Jews were forbidden to visit Christians in their homes; Jews were required to attend Jewish schools, etc. You couldn’t do this and you couldn’t do that, but life went on. Jacque always said to me, ‘I don’t dare do anything anymore, ‘cause I’m afraid it’s not allowed.” (10-11)
Wednesday June 24, 1942
-“It’s sweltering. Everyone is huffing and puffing, and in this heart I have to walk everywhere. Only now do I realize how pleasant a streetcar is, but we Jews are no longer allowed to make use of this luxury; our own feet are good enough for us.” (15)
Thursday July 9, 1942
-“The [Dutch] people on their way to work at the early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn’t offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself.” (25)
Saturday July 11, 1942
(After Anne and her family have gone into hiding from the Nazis)
-“we can’t ever look out the window or go outside. And we have to be quiet so the people downstairs can’t hear us.” (31)
-“Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.” (32)
Friday October 9, 1942
-“Today I have nothing but dismal and depressing news to report. Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to…the big camp…to which they are sending all the Jews…The people [there] get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet and sink for several thousand people. Men and women sleep in the same room, and women and children often have their heads shaved. Escape is almost impossible…We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed. Perhaps that’s the quickest way to die (59-60)
-“Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I’m actually one of them! No, that’s not true. Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.” (60-61)
Thursday November 19, 1942
-“Countless friends and acquaintances have been taken off to a dreadful fate. Night after night, green and gray military vehicles cruise the streets. They knock on every door, asking whether any Jews live there. If so, the whole family is immediately taken away…It’s impossible to escape their clutches unless you go into hiding. They often go around with lists, knocking only on those doors where they know there’s a big haul to be made. They frequently offer a bounty, so much per head. It’s like the slave hunts of old days…In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see long lines of good, innocent people, accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, ordered about by a handful of men who bully and beat them until they nearly drop. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all marched to their death….I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. All because they’re Jews” (76)
Wednesday January 13, 1943
-“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their house sealed, their families gone.” (87)
1944
-“One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we’ll be people again and not just Jews!’ (282)