Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.18c

Social StudiesGrades 9–12The Final Solution

The Standard

SS24.HOS.18: Critique the responses considered by the Roosevelt administration and the United States military to the suffering of European Jews in the Holocaust.*

Identify the locations of concentration camps liberated by American, British, and Red Army soldiers.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Final Solution

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students locate concentration camps on a map of Europe. They identify which camps American, British, and Red Army soldiers liberated.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student places Dachau near Munich, Bergen-Belsen near Celle, and Auschwitz near Oświęcim. They match those camps to American, British, and Red Army soldiers, in that order.
Common Misconceptions: Students may place Auschwitz in Germany instead of Nazi-occupied Poland. They may assume American soldiers liberated every camp or fail to connect the Red Army with the Soviet Union.
How to Assess It: Give students a map labeled Munich, Celle, and Oświęcim. Ask them to mark the three camps and write the liberating army beside each one.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a Europe map and camp-name stickers; have them place Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, and Auschwitz, then add colored labels for the liberating armies.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why Auschwitz belongs on a map of Nazi-occupied Poland, not present-day Germany.
Run a card match with camp names, nearby cities, and liberating armies, then have students check their matches against a marked map.
Find the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial on a current map, then compare Oświęcim's location with its position on a 1945 Europe map.

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