Essay Topics

• The history of the Holocaust.

• The history of the Jewish people.

• Concentration camps (including work camps, death camps, etc.) during World War II. How many, where, what happened there?

• Why did Hitler want to exterminate people?

• Germany today compared with Germany during WWII.

• Resistance to the Nazis in Germany during WWII.

• Response of the Allies to persecution of Jews in WWII.

• What were some of the causes of World War II?

• If you were to meet a survivor of the Holocaust, what would you say to them?

• How could we keep the Holocaust or any other such crime against humanity from happening again?

• If you had to leave your house suddenly like the Frank family, what would you take with you and why?

• Describe the prejudices in America. Have we ever had a "Holocaust experience" in America?

• Describe prejudice in your school.

• What would it be like to live in hiding?

• Describe your favorite passage in Forget Me Not.

• The following is a list of some of the most recent world events in which intolerance was a factor:

  Turkish slaughter of the Armenians
  Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia
  United States hate groups
  Los Angeles riots of 1992
  "Apartheid" in the nation of South Africa
  US quarantine of Asians during World War II
  "Ethnic Cleansing" in the modern nation of Bosnia
  Tiannemen Square in China