To guide you in your investigative journalism, here are some clues:

1. Consult the Chronologies to get an overview of the historical period in question.

2. Read the document Spring’s End (introduction) to get to know John Freund, a direct witness from the period.

3. Consult the documents from the Virtual library from the following perspectives:

Life in the ghettos :

3 a. Carefully examine the map of the ghettos and camps to identify the locations of the ghettos in Europe.

3 b. Analyze the photographic evidence from Photo A and Photo B in order to understand the conditions in the ghettos.

3 c. Read the document Spring’s End (Part 1) to understand what life was like for children in the ghettos.

Life in the concentration and death camps:

3 d. Examine the map of the ghettos and camps to identify the locations of the camps in Eastern Europe.

3 e. Inspect the map of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust and determine which country had the largest number of Jewish victims.

3 f. Explore the photographic evidence from Photo C to Photo I to understand the conditions, under which the prisoners lived, how the facilities were organized and who "operated" these camps.

3 g. Look carefully at artifacts 1, 2 and 3 and explain what they tell us about the living conditions of the prisoners.

3 h. Read the documents Spring’s End (parts 2, 3 and 4) to help you to imagine the perspective of a child in the camps.

3 i . Watch the audio-visual document "Gatehouse to Hell" by Felix Opatowski. What was, according to him, the worst part about living in a camp – Auschwitz?

3 j. Read the article Auschwitz II-Birkenau Overview and determine what link can be made between the layout of Auschwitz and the preceding videos?

Nazi perception:

4 a. Read the definitions of “anti-Semitic propaganda” and “desecration” in the Shoah's Dictionary to become familiar with the vocabulary.

4 b. Look carefully at the photographic evidence from Photo J to Photo L and determine what link can be made between the two illustrations and the photograph of hate graffiti on the storefront window?

4 c. Read the document entitled The Poisonous Mushroom. By targeting this book at children, what was the publisher’s intended purpose?

4 d. Watch the audio-visual sources Hitler before the Reichstag and the Speech of Julius Streicher. What message do these two men send to the German people? What do they present as a condition for peace in the world?