Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen
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Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen
grades:  High School (9-12) 

Lesson Summary:

From Yad Vashem:
"This classroom activity explores the transformation of Bergen Belsen from a concentration camp to a Displaced Persons camp. It focuses particularly on how Holocaust survivors grappled with loneliness and despair by getting married and starting families shortly after liberation. Through the lens of Bergen Belsen, we gain an understanding about how Holocaust survivors displayed courage and determination in generating life after the Holocaust."



Objectives

  • Explore different aspects of Bergen Belsen as a concentration camp and as a DP camp. More specifically, the significance of the families that were created among survivors at the Bergen Belsen DP camp.
  • Discover and remember that some survivors were unable to return to "normal" life after the trauma of the Holocaust. Among this group were survivors who committed suicide, survivors who experienced severe psychological scarring, survivors who were unable to marry or have children, and others who suffered from a host of problems after the Holocaust. What is remarkable is that these were the minority, and that most Holocaust survivors were able to bring a certain degree of order to their chaotic world.

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