This document outlines a teacher's proposed trip from Paris to Auschwitz following the forced migration patterns of Jews during the Holocaust. The goals are to enhance understanding of the governmental machinery behind the Holocaust, witness post-Holocaust cultural vibrancy, pay respects to victims, and gain knowledge to share with students. Specific sites in Paris, Berlin, Prague, Krakow, and Budapest are mentioned. Upon return, information from the trip will be used by freshman writing students in an integrated unit with English and Human Geography classes.

1. to educate students on
It is my job as a writing
topics worthy of their
teacher…
writing.

2. From the Paris to Auschwitz:
Following the Forced Migration
Patterns of Jews During the
Holocaust
Hilton Teacher Treks Application Supplement
Prepared by Lauren McDonnell

3. Why this trip?
 Enhance understanding of the governmental
machinery behind the Holocaust, including that of
occupied and complicit nations
 Witness the cultural vibrancy that has emerged from
devastation
 Pay respects to the victims of the Holocaust
 Gain knowledge to share with students

4. Proposed travel route (train)
Proposed travel route (car)
Proposed travel route (plane)

5. Remember the history,
celebrate the culture.

6. Paris and Drancy
Forced migration then…

7. …today, the city of lights.

8. Berlin
Home of the Third Reich, engine of the Holocaust…

9. …and modern cultural epicenter.

10. Prague and
Theresienstadt
Nazi propaganda to stave off foreign
intervention…

11. …and city of a hundred spires.

12. Krakow

13. ...and today.

14. Budapest
Jewish safety zone until Nazi occupation

15. …and pearl of the
Danube.

16. Planned Hilton Stays
 Hilton Paris La Defense
 Hilton Berlin
 Hilton Prague
 Hilton Garden Inn Krakow
 Hilton Budapest

17. Bringing it back to
students…

18. Freshman Writing 1
 Freshmen writing students will use information
about the Holocaust to craft arguments in
response to the following essential questions:
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How and why do genocides start?
How do governments hide genocide?
Is complicity during crime a crime itself?
How do countries and ethnic groups recover
after genocide or civil war and regain cultural
identity?
Does war generate anything that is culturally
valuable?
How is the war/conflict/genocide in X country
similar or different to World War II and the
Holocaust?
Based on X country’s strengths and assets, in
what areas do you envision it is mostly likely to

19. Integrated unit with
freshman English and
Human Geography