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PHOTO #1:
Questions for this photograph before you give them the background information:
Who are these people?
What is their gender and how do you know?
What are they doing?
Why take this photograph? You can ask this both before and after you explain
the photo’s background.
What does this tell you about the experience of people under Nazi oppression?
Share the description with the students and continue to ask questions.
Description:
A column of prisoners on their way to work to build factories for the Krupp concern.
Photographer: SS-man Dietrich Kamann
PHOTO #2
:
Questions for this photograph before you give them the background information:
Who are these people?
What is their gender and how do you know?
What are they doing?
Why take this photograph? You can ask this both before and after you explain the photo.
What does this tell you about the experience of people under Nazi oppression?
Share the description with the students and continue to ask questions.
Description:
Female Jewish prisoners in the Plaszow camp on their way to forced labor. Five men served
as camp commandant at Plaszow during its two and a half years of existence. Amon Goeth, who held the
position from February 1943 to September 1944, was considered to be the most cruel and inhumane. He
encouraged
selektionen
, mass murders, and working the prisoners to death. He was also personally
responsible for the deaths of many prisoners.
PHOTO #3
Questions for this photograph before you give them the background information:
Who are these people?
What is their gender and how do you know?
What are they doing?
