CURRICULUM

Training Program: 16-18 hours in total – 2 hours per session

The following is an outline of the Program Curriculum Binder for Educators:

SESSION I: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• Introduction for students to the study of the Holocaust

• Defining Prejudice, Hate and Discrimination

• The History of Antisemitism

SESSION II: CANADA AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• The Immigrant Experience in Canada

• Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Part Two

• Aboriginal discrimination (including residential schools, Aboriginal discrimination in voting, Aboriginal urban ghettoization)

• The Acadians

• African-American slaves and the Underground Railway

• Louis Riel

• Banning the French language in Canadian schools

• Chinese immigration (including the Chinese Head Tax and Chinese Immigration {Exclusion} Act)

• Doukhobors

• The Komagata Maru Incident

• Ukrainian internment during the period of 1914-1920

• Racial quotas in immigration and restricted land sales

• Women’s rights and the Persons Case, 1929

• Japanese interment during WWII

• Jewish refugees and the turning away of the St. Louis

• Canadian attitudes and policies towards Jewish immigration during the 1930s

• Social discrimination and discrimination at Canadian universities

• The treatment of homosexuality

• Hate groups in Canada

SESSION III: THE SETTING OF THE HOLOCAUST

• The history of Europe and Germany 1871-1939

• Nazi History and Theory

• The Nazis in Power 1933-1939: The Development of a Totalitarian State

•  Jews in Germany 1933-39

SESSION IV: THE HOLOCAUST IN OPERATION

• The Holocaust in Operation: The Systematic Nature of the Holocaust

• Round-ups

• Ghettos

• Einsatzgruppen

• Deportation on Cattle Cars

• Concentration Camps: “The Kingdom of Auschwitz”

• Death Marches

• Resistance

SESSION V: LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST

• Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas

• Chronology of Novel, Topics and Issues

• Moral Dilemmas

• Anne Frank: Life in Hiding by Johanna Hurwitz

SESSION VI: The LAST DAYS

• Video: “The Last Days” and Discussion

SESSION VII: THE WORLD’S REACTION: GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CITIZENSHIP

• Social Responsibilites

• The Allies: What They Knew and How They Reacted

• Emigration/Immigration: Canada’s Role

• The SS St. Louis

• The Reaction of Neutral Switzerland

• The Axis Countries

• The Role of the Church

• Righteous Among the Nations

SESSION VIII: LEADERSHIP VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• A Brief Overview of Leadership: Napoleon, Lincoln, Jefferson, Mandela, King, Trudeau

•  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Leadership During the Holocaust

• Defining Leadership Qualities

• Personal Action Plan

SESSION IX: PREPARATION FOR WASHINGTON