Strive for precision of language

Photo description

Three Jewish businessmen are paraded down Bruehl Strassed in central Leipzig by the SA, carrying signs that read: ‘Don’t buy from Jews; Shop at German Stores!”  The third marcher from the left is Chaim Bleiweiss who owned a fur store located at Breuhl Strassed 68.  The photo was produced as a postcard and sold at kiosks in Leipzig.  Chaim Bleiweiss died at Auschwitz with his two sons. 

Relationship to guideline

A study of the Holocaust should address the complexity of the history, including the recognition that there were many categories of behavior.  Some people in this picture are perpetrators, some are bystanders, and some are victims.  It is important in the classroom not to overgeneralize but instead to clarify the differences between collaborators and bystanders or between prejudice and discrimination or between direct orders and assumed orders.

Guidelines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14