MAKING HISTORY SKILLS BOOK Confronting the Holocaust
After the liberation of some of the concentration and extermination camps, locals were forced by the liberating armies to enter the camps and see what happened there. The images below depict some of these scenes. Study these images and answer the questions that follow.
B A C
1. Describe the reaction of the women in picture A.
2. What do you think is happening in picture B?
3. Some locals were forced to bury the bodies of some of the victims (picture C). Why do you think they were made do this?
4. Why do you think the Allied soldiers made some locals enter the camps?
5. Do you agree with the locals being forced to visit them? Explain your answer.
6. Give three suggestions or methods for teaching the Holocaust that you think would help ensure that another genocide doesn’t happen.