For Year 10 Holocaust unit. Australian History Curriculum, NSW 2010.

1. LIFE FOR JEWISH PEOPLE LIVING
IN GERMANY BEFORE 1933

2. WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THIS IMAGE?

3. SUMMARY POINTS
• Before 1933, Jews had lived in Germany for about 1600
years.
• Over this time Jewish people living in German had
assimilated into the wider German culture
• One way assimilation occurred was through
intermarriage.
• When the Nazis came to power in 1933 there were 500
000 Jews living in Germany.
• A third of this group lived in Berlin, and another 40% in
other big cities.
• 60% of this group engaged in trade and commerce, 25%
in industry and manual trades, 12% in the public service
and other ‘white collar’ professions, especially law and
medicine

4. ACTIVITIES
1. Add to your glossary the following key terms:
Assimilation, diversity, white collar
2. What was life like for German Jews up to 1933? (write a
sentence)
3. Choose one of the following options
A. Pie Graph: Design a pie graph on your computer, or
some graph paper provided, showing the major
occupations of German Jews before 1933
B. Fotor Collage: Design a fully labeled color using
fotor.com of what life was like for a German Jewish
family before 1933. Make sure you use a variety of
historical images in your collage.