Holocaust Extra Credit Option

AP US History

1.      Attend one of the presentations listed below.  

2.      Take a full page of notes.

3.      Then do one of the following:

·         Summarize the US policy toward this event. Explain either a) why the US policy was justified or b) what the US policy should have been. (1 page)

·         Identify a situation in today’s world that is similar in some significant way. Explain the situation, explain the similarity, and explain what we should do about the current situation. (1 page)

·         Do further research on the Holocaust. Take a full page of notes. Cite your sources.

 

You may attend TWO of the presentations for extra credit. If you attend more than one, chose a different option for each.

 

Each extra credit option is worth ten points.

 

Your work is due no later than Thursday, April 22.

 


Tuesday, April 13th: Eric D. Weitz
C&E Auditorium, LaSells Stewart Center
7:30 pm
           

Professor and author Eric D. Weitz, who teaches History and is the Director of the Center for German and Central European Studies at the University of Minnesota, will speak on the problem of genocide in the twentieth century.

Weitz has investigated four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz’s research explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century - and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly.


Thursday, April 15th: Eline Hoekstra (Survivor Testimony)
Austin Auditorium, LaSells Stewart Center
7:30 pm

Eline Hoekstra will speak of her experiences growing up as a Jew in the Netherlands, focusing on her three years internment at Westerbork, the transit camp that for tens of thousands of Dutch Jews was the last stop before Auschwitz. Appearing with Eline will be her daughter, who will discuss what it is like to grow up the child of a Holocaust survivor.

Hoekstra was a senior in high school when Holland was occupied by the Germans, and interned in two different camps. She will share her stories of her time in the camps and the tragedies and experiences of her family during that time.