Concentration Camps in the Holocaust

Introduction

The Holocaust which meant "death by fire" had much more than a horrific meaning behind the name. The Holocaust was responsible for the mass murder of around 6 million European Jews in addition to gypsies, homosexuals, and anything different from the "Aryan" race. Adolf Hitler believed that all Jews were inferior people and a total threat to Germany's pure race and country. After Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, complete Nazi dictatorship was soon to approach. The "Final Solution" was the fate of every Jew or anyone who apposed Nazi beliefs which consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation that accounted for the deaths of about six million Jews leaving two-thirds of European Jews to be extinct. Concentration camps were created to complete Hitler's wish to imprision, and kill all the innocent lives of Jewish people.

Task

In the end of this webquest, you will be informed on the different Concentration camps in the Holocaust and their functions. Every camp has a different way of working and students will be able to identify the differences. :)

Process

Go through these websites and record important dates, camps, and details. What were the different types of camps and their functions? What were the conditions in these Camps? When were they liberated? Summarize the information given in order to answer these questions.

Concentration Camps, 1933–1939

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263

Concentration Camps:
Full Listing of Camps

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html

Nazi Camps

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144

Types of Camps

http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-camps/types-of-camps/

Concentration and Death Camps

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blchart.htm

Atrocities in the Camps

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_0_07085.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/medtoc.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/labortoc.html

Liberation of Nazi Camps

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131

Evaluation

Your assignment will be evaluated by a 4 point rubric. It'll be necessary to include the following:

Credits

"Concentration Camps, 1933–1939." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. "Concentration Camps: Full Listing of Camps." Full Listing of Concentration Camps?N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2014.