1. By Des Quinn and Martin Williams

2. What do you think is happening in this picture? Who are these people and where are they? Clue: Look at the height of the wall and what is on top of it. Image courtesy of Des Quinn

3. Describe the condition of these children within the ghetto. Based upon the two pictures that you have seen discuss what life must have been like within this ghetto. Image courtesy of Des Quinn

4. Can you work out what language the sign in the window has been written in? Discuss where you think this ghetto was located. Give clear reasons why. Image courtesy of Des Quinn

5. What was the name of the ghetto where this postcard was sent from? As the official mark on the card shows us this postcard never reached its destination. What do you think ‘Unzulassig’ means? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

6. What was the name of the ghetto where this postcard was sent from? As the official mark on the card shows us this postcard never reached its destination. What do you think ‘Unzulassig’ means? Forbidden Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

7. What do you think this German officer is saying to the Jewish gentleman? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

8. What do you think this Jewish gentleman is thinking? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

9. What do you imagine this German Officer is planning? What could he be referring to? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

10. Describe the state of this part of the ghetto. What seems to be happening? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

11. These people have been herded together and are being forced to march out of the ghetto. Does this reinforce the answer you gave to the question on the previous slide? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

12. Many of these men do not appear to be regular German soldiers. In the context of what you are studying what do you believe their job could have been? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

13. What in the photograph indicates that the people being transported on this train are Jews? These people could be arriving at the ghetto. However, if the ghetto had been ‘liquidated’ where would they probably be transported to next? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

14. Many millions of Jews ended up in concentration camps where they were put to work, often making items that would benefit the German war machine. Jews were forced to give up their belongings and were made to wear identification badges and armbands. The armband above belonged to a worker in one of the largest camps that the Nazis created after 1939. Can you work out which camp this was? Photograph courtesy of Des Quinn

15. Buna was the largest sub-camp within the Auschwitz complex. By 1944 there were 10,000 inmates in the camp who were put to work by the S.S. The majority of the workers were Jewish and many died from starvation, from being over-worked or executed.

16. How much can you remember about the ghettos created by the Nazis? END