Mankind can learn much about how people adapt to change and to economic pressure by studying how society changes in response to these economic pressures. Research life in Berlin during the 1920s and the 1930s. Compare these two periods carefully. What do you think are the most significant social changes to occur during this period?

Locate at least two or three poems by Rose Ausländer, another German Jewish woman poet. After you have read Ausländer's poems, compare them to at least two or three of Sachs's poems. How are these poems alike? How are they different? In what ways do both Ausländer and Sachs capture the Holocaust experience? Be sure to use lines of poetry to support your findings.

Some historians have argued that women were better able to adapt to the new laws and oppression...