my daughter is doing a project about the people who helped the jewish in the holocaust with her 3 friends, david,katherine,and shannon. this is a project for national history and it would take a lot of time and effort. she has until march. what are some resourses she can use? any websites, books??
2007-12-13 07:47:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
wikipedia is a great place to start. In addition...Google Oskar (or Oscar) Schindler.
2007-12-13 07:51:41 · answer #1 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Goo advice from Quasimodo. Goggle and Wikipedia are always at the top of my list for quick research.
Many Germans and people from other European countries helped Jewish people once the Nazis became established.
I had a landlady in Idaroberstein whose family hid a Jewish family from the Gestapo so well that on the several times the house was searched, the Jewish family was never found.
The US Government was offered a chance to buy as many Jewish families as we wished for $750.00 per family of any size. We declined with outrage that anyone should suggest that the US would stoop to human trafficking.
The Germans surely could have used the dollars (the US dollar used to be a hard currency) but I suspect they made the offer just to expose our hypocrisy.
Apparently the real reason was that we had our own prejudice against Jews and couldn't see our way clear to pay $750.00 per family for thousands of Jews to add to the population we already had.
Not a good day in our history. It is usually hard to swallow when the carefully scrubbed and fancied "history" of a country, ours included, is exposed to a bit of truthfulness.
However, considering the current obsession for lies described as "political correctness" your daughter might be wise to keep her head down and pass on the opportunity to indulge in a bit of actual history!
2007-12-13 16:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is tons of organizations and that can help, for example The Museum of Jewish Heritage in NY has a lot of educational resources about the Holocaust. The web site is:
http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm
I assume you know about Schindler's List and the Diary of Anne Frank, that both deal with this in a forceful way.
2007-12-13 15:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by hfrankmann 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The books:
Diary of Anne Frank
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
and Night
are all primary sources of people who went through the Holocaust.
They could also try reading Adolf Hitler's biography, to get some background.
2007-12-13 16:04:33 · answer #4 · answered by pepsi_chugger8899 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up Raul Walenberg, and Oskar Schindler, for starters.
of course make sure they read the Diary of Anne Frank. Many of the people who helped the Jewish went on with life without telling anyone what they did to help, so if it came down to ever having to be done again they would not be suspect.
2007-12-13 15:55:19 · answer #5 · answered by mysticalviking 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell her to google "Stefania Podgorska" "Hugh O'Flaherty" "Oscar Schindler"
a VERY good book, if you can find it, is called "Conscience and Courage". by Eva Fogleman. Might be high reading level for her age, but she should be able to find some (actually many) stories of "rescuers" during the halocaust.
2007-12-13 16:10:57 · answer #6 · answered by Shelly P. Tofu, E.M.T. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One entertaining book (for such a topic) is The Bielski Brothers.
2007-12-13 15:56:16 · answer #7 · answered by forhirepen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't use Wikipedia. Anyone can put information on that site and most colleges don't consider them a source of credible information. Doesn't sound like their in college but you don't want them to be misinformed.
2007-12-13 15:59:43 · answer #8 · answered by jp 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋