Historical Context: Representing the Holocaust
This handout explores representations of the Holocaust by its participants, observers, and interpreters, and compares the impact of photographs to other forms of art and documentation.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 5: HANDOUT 3
1—2 class periods (45-90 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
Place > Europe
Themes > Culture
Themes > War and Foreign Policy
U.S. > World War II
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Essay
Place > Europe
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Textual analysis
- Using archival documents
- Using primary sources
- Visual analysis
- Visual art analysis
- ELA Reading: 7
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-3, 6-10
OR complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign the full text of Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others in advance.
- Reflection questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers. Consider allowing additional time for students to incorporate research on individual images from the handout or other representations of the Holocaust into their response (see Photography Unit Research handout for related texts and resources).