Holocaust History: My Brothers Keeper

Use online videos to learn about the History of the Holocaust. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these World History videos entitled My Brothers Keeper to study the horrors of the Holocaust, the Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the persecution of the Jewish people through the paintings of artist Israel Bernbaum.

Learn through evocative art by Israel Bernbaum, archival photos, firsthand accounts, and other supplemental material the story of the Holocaust and, specifically, the Warsaw ghetto. Understand how prejudice, hate, and racist propaganda can lead to catastrophe, and what can be done to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust. Examine the meaning of the biblical phrase; I am my brother's keeper. Review excerpts from Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg, the text of Hitler's War Against the Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz and David A. Altshuler, and a survivor's account by Ben Meed.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn - through evocative art by Israel Bernbaum, archival photos, firsthand accounts and other supplemental material - the story of the Holocaust and specifically, the Warsaw Ghetto.
• Understand how prejudice, hate and racist propaganda can lead to catastrophe, and what can be done to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust.
• Examine the meaning of the biblical phrase, "I am my brother's keeper".
• Review excerpts from Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary by Mary Berg, the text of Hitler's War Against the Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz and David A. Altshuler, and a survivor's account by Ben Meed.

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• My Brother's Keeper (Runtime: 21:43)