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Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain the differences between forced labor camps, concentration camps,
transit camps and death camps, including the geographic location, physical structure, camp
commandants and SS leadership and mechanics of murder.
Clarification 2: Students will describe the daily routines within the camps to include food intake,
showers, bathrooms, sleeping arrangements, roll call, work details, illness, environmental conditions,
clothing, selection process, torture, medical experiments, public executions, suicides and other aspects of
daily life.
Clarification 3: Students will describe various attempts at escape and forms of resistance within the
camps.
Clarification 4: Students will discuss how the use of existing transportation infrastructure facilitated the
deportation of Jewish people to the camps, including the non-Aryan management of the transportation
system that collaborated with the Nazis.
Clarification 5: Students will describe life in Terezin, including its function as a transit camp, its unique
culture that generated art, music, literature, poetry, opera (notably Brundibar) and the production of
Vedem Magazine as a form of resistance; its use by the Nazis as propaganda to fool the International
Red Cross; and the creation of the film “Terezin: A Documentary Film of Jewish Resettlement.”
Clarification 6: Students will identify and examine the 6 death camps (e.g., Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka) and their locations.
Clarification 7: Students will explain why the 6 death camps were only in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Clarification 8: Students will describe the significance of Auschwitz-Birkenau as the most prolific site
of mass murder in the history of mankind.
SS.912.HE.2.14 Explain the purpose of the death marches.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will recognize death marches as the forcible movement of prisoners by
Nazis with the dual purpose of removing evidence and murdering as many people as possible
(toward the end of World War II and the Holocaust) from Eastern Europe to Germany proper.
SS.912.HE.2.15 Describe the experience of Holocaust survivors following World War II.
Benchmark Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain how Allied Forces liberated camps, including the relocation and
treatment of the survivors.
Clarification 12 Students will discuss the experiences of survivors after liberation (e.g., repatriations,
displaced persons camps, pogroms, relocation).
Clarification 3: Students will explain the various ways that Holocaust survivors lived through the state-
sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators (e.g.,
became partisans, escaped from Nazi controlled territory, went into hiding).
Clarification 4: Students will describe the psychological and physical struggles of Holocaust survivors.
Clarification 5: Students will examine the settlement patterns of Holocaust survivors after World War II,
including immigration to the United States and other countries, and the establishment of the modern
state of Israel.
SS.912.HE.3 Discuss the impact and aftermath of the Holocaust.