Coming home?

In this chapter, students examine how the Jews who survived the camps returned to the Netherlands and how they were received there.

The students can use help lines if they do not know how to tackle a research assignment. One of those guides consists of a list of terms that contains terms and names that are underlined in the text. Another help line concerns a number of historical skills. In this chapter, among other things, skills such as "source analysis", "contextualizing", "evaluating and judging" and "empathizing" are used

Senior general secondary/Pre-university Grade: 3

Learning goals

Based on analysis of historical sources, the accents are:

• Imagination - Students can empathize with historical persons and historical situations
• Causality - Students can recognize and explain intended and unintended effects
• Taking positions - Students can take and defend moral positions based on historical reasoning.
• Arguing - conducting a class discussion / discussion / debate.

Pre-knowledge

The following prior knowledge or preparations are desirable:

• The students have a basic knowledge of the liberation of Europe in 1945
• The students have a basic knowledge of the liberation of the Netherlands between September 1944 and May 1945
• The students have a basic knowledge of the state of affairs in the Netherlands in the years 1945-1950

Testing / closing

Upon completion, a number of topics may be discussed in the class discussion. Below some suggestions:

• The "relief and support" theme.
• Suppose there is a student / refugee in your class who is in danger of being deported to his home country where a dictator is in power and for whom he has fled. Will you take action to help him or not? If so, how do you do that? If not, why not?
• The "equal treatment" theme.
• Do you think that the Dutch government in London in London made the right decision by stipulating that all war victims should be treated in the same way after the war?
• Do you think that a refugee should have the same rights and obligations as you have?