Standard 3 : Discuss the impact and aftermath of the Holocaust.



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General Information

Number: SS.912.HE.3
Title: Discuss the impact and aftermath of the Holocaust.
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education

Related Benchmarks

This cluster includes the following benchmarks
Code Description
SS.912.HE.3.1: Analyze the international community’s efforts to hold perpetrators responsible for their involvement in the Holocaust.
Clarifications:

Clarification 1: Students will discuss the purpose and outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials and other subsequent trials related to the Holocaust.

Clarification 2: Students will compare arguments by the prosecution and recognize the falsehoods offered by the defense during the Nuremberg Trials (e.g., Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement, Prosecutor Ben Ferencz’s opening statement, ex post facto laws, non-existent terminology, crimes against humanity, genocide, statute of limitations, jurisdictional issues).

Clarification 3: Students will discuss how members of the international community were complicit in assisting perpetrators’ escape from both Germany and justice following World War II.

SS.912.HE.3.2: Explain the impact of the Eichmann Trial on policy concerning crimes against humanity, capital punishment, accountability, the testimony of survivors and acknowledgment of the international community.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will recognize the Eichmann Trial as the first time that Israel held a Nazi war criminal accountable.
SS.912.HE.3.3: Explain the effects of Holocaust denial on contemporary society.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain how Holocaust denial has helped contribute to the creation of contemporary propaganda and the facile denial of political and social realities.
SS.912.HE.3.4: Explain why it is important for current and future generations to learn from the Holocaust.
Clarifications:

Clarification 1: Students will explain the significance of learning from Holocaust era primary sources created by Jews who perished and those who survived.

Clarification 2: Students will explain the significance of listening to the testimony of Holocaust survivors (e.g., live and through organizations that offer pre-recorded digital testimony).

Clarification 3: Students will describe the contributions of the Jews (e.g., arts, culture, medicine, sciences) to the United States and the world.

Clarification 4: Students will explain the significance of “Never Again.”

SS.912.HE.3.5: Recognize that antisemitism includes a certain perception of the Jewish people, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jewish people, rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism directed toward a person or his or her property or toward Jewish community institutions or religious facilities.
Clarifications:

Clarification 1: Students will analyze examples of antisemitism (e.g., calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews, often in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion; making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as a collective, especially, but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions; accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, the State of Israel, or even for acts committed by non-Jews; accusing Jews as a people or the State of Israel of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust; accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interest of their own nations).

Clarification 2: Students will analyze examples of antisemitism related to Israel (e.g., demonizing Israel by using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism to characterize Israel or Israelis, drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, or blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions; applying a double standard to Israel by requiring behavior of Israel that is not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation or focusing peace or human rights investigations only on Israel; delegitimizing Israel by denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist).



Related Access Points

This cluster includes the following access points.

Access Points

Access Point Number Access Point Title
SS.912.HE.3.AP.1: Describe the international community’s efforts to hold perpetrators responsible for their involvement in the Holocaust.
SS.912.HE.3.AP.2: Identify the impact of the Eichmann Trial on policy concerning crimes against humanity, capital punishment, accountability, the testimony of survivors and acknowledgment of the international community.
SS.912.HE.3.AP.3: Identify the effects of Holocaust denial on contemporary society.
SS.912.HE.3.AP.4: Explain why it is important for current and future generations to learn from the Holocaust.
SS.912.HE.3.AP.5: Recognize that antisemitism includes a certain perception of the Jewish people, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jewish people, rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism directed toward a person or his or her property or toward Jewish community institutions or religious facilities.


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Lesson Plan

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Nuremberg Trials and Human Rights Worldwide:

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the proceedings and verdicts of the Nuremberg trials. Students will also focus on the impact of the trials on human rights worldwide.