Collaboration and ComplicityStudent Name: _______________________________________________________

“To mark the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th anniversary, the Museum presents a special exhibition that explores the COLLABORATION and COMPLICITY of individuals in Nazi Germany’s persecution and murder of Jews.”

Based on the context in the description above, define the following words:

Collaboration: ___________________________________________________________________________

Complicity: _____________________________________________________________________________

INTRODUCTION VIDEO: What did you learn about collaboration and complicity from this video? List three facts below:

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PHOTOGRAPH 1: How does this photograph show collaboration and complicity?

Does this girl’s presence make her complicit? Why or why not?

PHOTOGRAPH 2: Based on your observations and inferences, what is happening in this photograph?

Who is complicit in this photograph? Why?

PHOTOGRAPH 3: Based on your observations and inferences, what is happening in this photograph?

Who is complicit in this photograph? Why?

PHOTOGRAPH 4: Based on your observations and inferences, what is happening in this photograph?

Who is complicit in this photograph? Why?

VIDEO #1:Juozas Aleksyanas was born in Makrickai, Lithuania, in 1914. During World War II, he was a soldier in the Lithuanian 12th Self-Defense Battalion. While serving as an auxiliary to German forces, Aleksynas participated in several massacres of Jews in Belorussia in the autumn of 1941. Credit: USHMM Collection, Witnesses, Collaborators, and Perpetrators: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative

In one word or one sentence, using no expletives, react to the video clip:

Based on what this speaker says, do you believe that he thinks he was a collaborator and complicit for what he did? Answer in complete sentences and give at least two specific examples from what he says.

VIDEO #2:Stefan Kucharek was born in 1922 in Malkinia, Poland, the son of a train engineer. He attended school with Jewish neighbors and later worked in a saw mill. After the German invasion of Poland, Kucharek began working for the railroad doing track maintenance. Later, he drove trains full of Jews to the Treblinka killing center. Kucharek drove these transports regularly for almost a year. Credit: USHMM Collection, Witnesses, Collaborators, and Perpetrators: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative

In one word or one sentence, using no expletives, react to the video clip:

What is the tone of the speaker? Give evidence from what he says to defend your answer in complete sentences:

VIDEO #3:Regina (Kirvelaityte) Prudnikova was born in 1925 in Pilviskiu (Pilviskiai), Lithuania, to a Christian family. Before the war, she briefly worked for a Jewish family as a domestic. As a teenager during the Holocaust, she witnessed how local people joined in the persecution of the Jews. Credit: USHMM Collection, Witnesses, Collaborators, and Perpetrators: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative

In one word or one sentence, using no expletives, react to the video clip:

Based on what this speaker says, do you believe that she was a collaborator and complicit for what she did? Answer in complete sentences and give at least one specific example from what she says.