1. Name:………………………………………………………….
Teacher:……………………………………………………….
Date Task 1 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Date Task 2 Issued:……Date to be completed by…….
Level 4 and 5
Key Stage 3-Year 9
History Homework Booklet
Term 6:The Holocaust – Why did good men do nothing?
Your Task:
As soon as Hitler became leader of Germany in 1933 he introduced laws and
rules that made the lives of Jewish people more and more difficult. Jews
were sacked from jobs, banned from voting, and forbidden to marry non-
Jews. Their businesses and shops were taken away from them. In some areas
such as Warsaw in Poland they were forced to live in a tiny area with little
food called Ghettos. These were very unpleasant places where disease and
death were common. Eventually the Nazi Party created a ‘Final Solution’ to
the Jewish problem which meant that they decided to exterminate all of the
Jewish people using specially built extermination camps.
Historians use sources to find out information out about the past and they
are a key feature of studying history, especially at GCSE. When historians
look at sources they have to think carefully about how useful the sources are
and how they reliable they are. This means they have to think about the
following when they are deciding how trustworthy a source is:
• Who wrote it?
• What is it?
• When was it written? Were they there?
• Why was it written? Are they trying to
record information or are they just
recoding what actually happened for their
own records/diary?
• Can you trust what is said or does the
person have a reason to lie about events?

2. Jewish children at
Auschwitz in 1945.
Photograph was taken
by an Allied soldier.
Source A
A description of life in the
Warsaw Ghetto by a
Holocaust survivor.
Source B
1.What can you learn from Source A about the Holocaust?
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2. What can you learn from Source B about the Holocaust?
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3. What is the worst thing that you have found out using the sources?
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On the streets children are crying
in vain, children who are dying of
hunger. They
howl, beg, sing, moan and shiver
with cold. Without
underwear, without
clothing, without shoes, in
rags, sacks, flannel, which are
bound in strips around their
wasting skeletons. Already
completely grown up at the age
of five, gloomy and weary of life.
Every day and every
night, hundreds of these children
die. I no longer look at the people
when I hear groaning and
sobbing. I cross the road.
Task 1

3. 2. How useful is Source B as evidence of the experience of Jewish children
during the Holocaust? REMEMBER TO COVER ALL OF THE POINTS ON THE
FRONT OF THIS BOOKLET
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Task 2

4. Key Stage 3- Year 9 History Homework
Term 6:The Holocaust – Why did good men do nothing?
Name:
These grades are
recorded in GO.
Current Grade:
Poor/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent
What you did well:
You have made excellent judgements
using sources and have explained
them well.
You have made excellent judgements
using sources.
You make good judgements about
how useful the source is.
You have picked out good information
from sources.
You have picked out some information
from sources.
Your spelling, punctuation, and
grammar in this work is excellent.
Your work is very well presented.
Your work shows excellent effort.
Your work shows some good effort.
Targets to improve further:
You need to give more detail when
explaining what you have found out
from the sources.
You need to give evidence from the
source to support your points.
You need to cover more points to
explain how useful a source is.
You need to think about what the
source tells you but does not actually
say.
You need to explain the judgements
that you make from sources.
You need to read sources more
carefully.
Take more care with your spelling,
punctuation and grammar.
Take more care with the presentation
of your work.
Your work shows it would benefit
from more effort.
Student Response
Note here anything you are not sure about:
Miss Limm