The Holocaust
Project
Year 9: Journeys
What was the Holocaust?
CLICK HERE for a definition.
In this lesson you are going to learn how the Holocaust was experienced by different people.
Josef Perl was a SURVIVOR. Most of the Jews deported from France were VICTIMS.
What do you know about Jewish life?
CLICK HERE to watch a video clip about Jewish Life before the 2nd World War.
Josef Perl's Journey
France and the Holocaust
10th May 1940: Germany invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
13th June 1940: Paris occupied by German troops.
25th June: France surrenders to Germany. France is divided into the occupied north and the French Vichy government in the south.
August 1941: Drancy Internment and Transit Camp opened in Paris.
1942: Deportations of Jews from Drancy begins.
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