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

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

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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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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.

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