Transcript Prisoners of The Camps

Most people in the camps were of the Jewish
ethnicity. Prisoners were required to wear
color-coded triangles on their jackets so that
the guards and officers of the camps could
easily identify each person's ethnicity. Common
criminals wore green. Roma (Gypsies) and
others the Germans considered "asocial" or
"shiftless" wore black triangles. Jehovah's
Witnesses wore purple and homosexuals pink.
•Jews
were the main target of the Holocaust, but they were not
the only group persecuted.
•Jehovah’s witnesses went sent to concentration camps for not
“hailing Hitler”.
•Nazis also targeted homosexual .
•June 24th, 1933: Jehovah’s witnesses were banned in Prussia
•June 28th, 1935: Nazis toughen laws against homosexuality.
•August 18th, 1944: Communist party leader executed in
Buchenwald













OCTOBER 26, 1939
FORCED LABOR INSTITUTED FOR JEWS IN POLAND
Prisoners were forced into extremely physically demanding labor
Prisoners in all the concentration camps were literally worked to death.
Women and children ages 12-60 were also worked to death
Jews generally work 10 to 12 hour days under harsh conditions
MAY 21, 1942
I.G. FARBEN PLANT OPENS NEAR AUSCHWITZ
synthetic-rubber and petroleum plant opens at Monowice, near Auschwitz
Life expectancy for the forced Jewish workers at the giant plant is extremely poor
By 1945, about 25,000 forced laborers have died in the Monowitz plant.
July 11, 1942
JEWS IN SALONIKA, GREECE, HELD FOR FORCED LABOR
Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 45 living in Salonika to report to Liberty
Square where they are to receive forced-labor assignments
9,000 Jewish men report. About 2,000 are assigned to forced-labor projects for the
German army.
The remainder are detained until the Jewish communities of Salonika and Athens
pay a huge ransom to the German occupation authorities for their release
A death march is a method of execution defined as “death
by labor” where prisoners are marched until they die of
dehydration.
Examples of death marches in the
holocaust.
JANUARY 18, 1945
DEATH MARCHES FROM THE
AUSCHWITZ CAMP SYSTEM
•JANUARY 25, 1945
THE EVACUATION AND DEATH
MARCH FROM STUTTHOF
CONCENTRATION CAMP
• APRIL 7, 1945
DEATH MARCH FROM BUCHENWALD
CONCENTRATION CAMP
•APRIL 26, 1945
DEATH MARCH FROM DACHAU
CONCENTRATION CAMP





The Soviets were the first ones to liberate a camp, on July 23, 1944, they
entered the Majdanek camp in Poland.
Allied troops, physicians, and relief workers tried to provide nourishment
for the surviving prisoners, but many of them were too weak to digest
food and could not be saved.
Many prisoners that were freed often died soon later. They either died
from malnutrition or a disease that they caught at the camp.
The survivors were so malnourished that when they got food their body
didn’t have the strength to digest it, so they died.
In the end only a little bit of the prisoners that were freed actually
survived because of malnutrition and all of the previous hardships they
had suffered.
•For
the survivors returning to life as it was before the Holocaust
was impossible.
•After the war many Anti-Jewish riots broke out in polish cities.
•Jews realized that there was no future for them in Poland anymore.
•May 14, 1948, one of the leading voices for a Jewish homeland,
David Ben-Gurion, announced the formation of the State of Israel.
•August 3rd, 1945:Harrison issues report on Jews in Germany.
•July 11th, 1947: Refugee ship sails for Palestine despite British
restrictions.
•November 29th, 1947: United Nations votes for partition of
Palestine.
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials
set up by the allies to judge the surviving
members of Nazi Germany, these trials lasted
from 1945 to 1949.
Military Leaders, political officials,
industrialists, and financiers were those who
were tried.
The Nuremberg Trials were set up to fairly
judge each war criminal, because the allies
were afraid of being deemed hypocritical if
they just executed them outright.
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007754
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007727
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007732
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007734
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007724
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007736
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/e
n/article.php?Moduleld=10007722