Students will use a timeline to locate and identify events.

• Students will look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for information about several events.
• Students will consider questions about the events.

Nuremberg, deprive, fundamental,

Look at the timeline on the Spread the Light website for answers to these questions:

• In September of 1935, the German government passed the Nuremberg Laws. What did the laws mean for German Jews?
• Kristallnacht happened in November of 1938. What does the word mean? What happened that night? What happened to Jews after that night?
• What happened during Operation Harvest Festival in November of 1943?

Read your answers in class. Discuss the questions below.

• Why do you think people give names to such horrible events?
• How does it make you feel to hear about laws that were passed to take away people’s rights? Could that happen today? Why or why not?
• How does it make you feel when you hear a cheerful name like Harvest Festival and then find out what it means?