When we look at historical events, what do we notice?
What questions are we looking to find answers for?
What perspectives do we seek in order to view our questions?
There is a wealth of information and knowledge readily available about the Holocaust.
Many technical questions find their answers: How many? where? what happened?
Questions pertaining to WHY; questions of values; of the meaning of it all, and why people made the decisions they did, are questions that are capable of a multitude of answers.
Only YOU can glean what you need from these stories. As you look at the binds individuals faced during the Holocaust, ask yourself, in what ways the bind was attended to.
An important thing for you to keep in mind as you find out about the small selection of individuals on this WebQuest, is that each of them was in some sort of a bind, be it a conflict, a dilemma, or an impasse (dead end).
Just in case you were wondering, the key to getting out of a bind is found once we remember that a bind cannot be resolved within its existing logic or organisation.
We face a stark choice: to be forever limited to act out of the bind, or to transform it, by venturing into the unknown.
