Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.9
The Standard
Examine the settlement patterns of Shoah (Holocaust) survivors after World War II, including immigration to the United States of America and other countries and the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students map where survivors went after liberation, including displaced persons camps, the United States, Israel, and other countries. They explain how safety, family ties, and immigration laws shaped those moves.
What Mastery Looks Like
- On a map, students trace routes from a displaced persons camp to the United States, Israel, and Canada. They explain why some survivors could not return home or enter a preferred country. They place Israel’s founding in 1948 and recognize that Jewish communities and Zionist organizing existed there before the war.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students assume all survivors moved directly to Israel or the United States; many spent years in displaced persons camps. Others think survivors could simply return home, overlooking destroyed communities and continued antisemitism. Some think survivors alone created Israel, overlooking earlier Jewish communities and the displacement of Palestinians during the 1948 war.
How to Assess It
- On a world map, mark a displaced persons camp in Germany and draw routes to the United States, Israel, and Canada. Name one factor that shaped a route and give Israel’s founding year.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a postwar camp map and destination cards for the United States, Israel after 1948, and Canada; have them trace three survivor routes.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how immigration limits and family ties could send survivors from one camp to different countries.
Sort event cards for 1945 liberation, camp stays, U.S. admission rules, and Israel’s 1948 founding; explain two links between them.
Compare a current U.S. refugee admissions webpage with a 1948 Displaced Persons Act summary; list one way entry rules shape destinations.
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