Holocaust in The Netherlands

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Holocaust in The Netherlands

Lesson plan

Holocaust in The Netherlands	20 min
Work	20 min
Break (somewhere)	4 min
Closing	5 min

At the end of this lesson you know how the Jews were persecuted in The Netherlands during WWII

You know what and where 'Kamp Vught' was

Holocaust
(the persecution of Jews by the nazi's)

Nazi's elected in Germany - 1933

What happened with the refugees?

10 May 1940

19 May 1941

German leaders in The Netherlands decide that all Dutch Jews should be deported

They would have to hand in all their money

That way the Jews themselves paid for their own deportation

3 May 1942

Camps

Jews were deported to camps:

first to Westerbork and Amersfoort

When those camps were full,

Vught was build

Vught opened in January 1943

• 31.000 people 
  
• 12.000 Jews
  
• Others: political prisoners, Roma, Sinti, Jehova's Witnesses, gays, homeless people
  
• 15.000 Jews deported to extermination camps
  
•  'only' 749 prisoners died in Vught

Children's transports

6 June 1943: all children 0 - 3 years old

7 June 1943: all children 4 - 15 years old

First to Westerbork, then to Sobibor

1296 children from Vught were gassed there

Video

https://schooltv.nl/video-item/andere-tijden-in-de-klas-kinderen-in-kamp-vught

Answer:

Question form about the last video - then swap and check

Make:

1. A list of five questions you want answered during your visit of Camp Vught.
   
2. Remember to write them down so you can bring the questions.
   
3. Hand them in - I will use them.
   

The end...

• 2-3 June 1944: all remaining Jews in Vught are deported to Auschwitz
  
• 5 September 1944: all remaining prisoners deported - women to Ravensbrück, men to Sachsenhausen

• After the war: camp for Germans and NSB-members and their families
  
• January 1949: closed
  
• 
  
• 1951: place for KNIL soldiers from Indonesia