Study Guide - Menemsha Films

a. How was life compromised?b. Can you list the considerations (deprivations) that became common based on thislevel of overcrowding? Be sure to include both material and abstract concerns.NSS-WH.5-12.8 ERA 8: A HALF-CENTURY OF CRISIS ANDACHIEVEMENT, 1900-1945NSS-C.9-12.5 ROLES OF THE CITIZEN2. In the Terezin segment, survivor Ela Weissberger appears before the camera in her ownclothes, but with a yellow Star of David affixed to her dress.a. Why do you think she chose to do that?b. How does it make you feel?3. The viewer is informed that children were separated from their parents and housed inseparate buildings from the adults.a. Why do you suppose the Nazis planned this strategy?b. Yehuda Bacon tells that Terezin children could lead a more normal life. How?Again, why do you suppose the Nazis chose to do this?c. Discuss the influence of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis.d. What did the young artists use in place of more conventional art supplies?’NSS-C.9-12.5 ROLES OF THE CITIZEN4. “Even the smallest sketch gave the artist a sense of control and freedom.” How?5. Known artists in Terezin were often taken aside by the Nazis for what purpose? And ifthey were found out to be creating so-called “unofficial” works of art, what was theirfate?6. At one time Theresienstadt was set up as a “model ghetto” in order to fool the worldabout the true treatment of the Jews. In reality, it was a transit stop for Jews heading tothe east. Yehuda Bacon comments that when the Red Cross arrived, if they’d gone 50yards to either side they would have seen the true horrors of the ghetto. In the face of thewar raging around the world and with their “racial goals” at hand, why did the Nazisexpend the time, money, and energy to put on this charade?a. Ela Weissman remarks that the only time they didn’t have to put on the star waswhen they performed the opera “Brundibar”. Do you think this made them moreenthusiastic to do the musical?b. To the children singing, what was the last line of the opera to symbolize?NSS-WH.5-12.8 ERA 8: A HALF-CENTURY OF CRISIS ANDACHIEVEMENT, 1900-1945As Seen Through These Eyes Page 27