The World, and One Family

On the left, what was happening in Europe. On the right, what was happening at the same moment to the Bik family of Łódź. History is easier to hold when it has a face.

For teachers

Print or project this page and pause at May 1942. Ask the class what a decree looks like from the outside, and what it looks like from inside one apartment. The two columns are the lesson.

Meet the family

A printable timeline handout

Every event on this page, in one clean two-column document, ready to print for the classroom.