The course Facing
History is about the racism and the prejudice in the historical
context. Some of the historical things in Facing History are the
Holocaust and how the Nazis would treat the Jews in Germany. They would bring
the Jews to a camp and the Nazis would put the Jews to work, then when the
Nazis come to the camps they would have other Jewish people with them and they
would have the Jews go to the gas chambers, the Jews that are working at the
camps would tell the others to get undressed and put your clothes on the hooks
with a number. They would have to tie their shoes together so they don’t get
lost. They have to remember what number they have the clothes hanging up
on. The Jews told the others that they
will reunite with their families and get some food. They go into the gas
chamber room but as the Nazis call it “showers.” They turn it on and while the doors
are closed and locked the Jews, can’t get out, so they are getting sprayed with
gas. The Jews that are in the gas chamber are killed. Then workers have to
bring them to a room so the bodies can get cremated. Then the Nazis would take
the ashes of that body and the wedding rings in a box wrapped up and brought to
their families. When the families of their loved ones get the box, they start
to break down because the loved ones got killed in the gas chambers.
