Part A:

Please read this week’s module and associated reading assignment. To get credit for this discussion, please answer the following in 5 or more sentences:

The Holocaust is one of the most, if not the most, documented events in history. Documentation includes eye witness accounts, photos, documentaries made by interviewing survivors, recorded accounts of survivors and soldiers, remaining concentration camps turned museums/memorials, and the extensive, detailed extermination records of Holocaust victims, recorded by the Germans themselves, at the time.

Why do you think Holocaust denial is still so prevalent today, in spite of all this data?

PART B:

Data Exercise Week #10

This week you learned about the racism in the last 100 years. Particularly you learned about the Holocaust. For the TOTW this week you had to speculate on why some people do not believe the Holocaust. For this week’s Data Exercise I would like you to survey as many people as you can about whether or not they believe in the Holocaust?

To complete this week’s exercise:

1) Ask as many people as you can (10 minimum) the following questions:

Q1: In one sentence define the event known as the Holocaust.

Q2: In your opinion did the Holocaust:

a) definitely happen

b) probably happen

c) probably did not happen

d) definitely did not happen

e) don’t know

Q3: Do you think that the total death toll of the Holocaust has been exaggerated?

a) Yes

b) no

c) don’t know

Q4: If someone told you privately that they think that the death toll of the Jews has been exaggerated, would you:

a) agree

b) disagree, but not be offended

c) disagree and be offended

d) disagree and be angry with the person

e) don’t know

f) would not care one way or the other

Q5: If, during a private conversation, someone told you they believed that Jews have exaggerated the Holocaust to gain political and financial advantage, would you:

a) agree

b) disagree, but not be offended

c) disagree and be offended

d) disagree and be angry with the person

e) don’t know

f) would not care one way or the other

2) Now go to a chart generating web site such as Create A Graph (http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。), and make four pie charts representing the answers you got for questions 2-5 (Q2-Q5).

3) Google “Holocaust poll” or “Holocaust survey” and to how your results compare to those of other studies.

4) Write a paragraph describing your results and how they compare to those of other studies. Why do you think your answers are different/the same compared to the results you found online?

5) CITE YOUR REFERENCES!