Transcript The Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, and Night

The Holocaust, Elie Wiesel,
and Night
Auschwitz
Timeline
• 1933 – Hitler elected Chancellor of
Germany
• Hitler given “emergency powers”
• 1933- 1st concentration camps opened.
• Throughout 1933 Jews begin to be
stripped of their rights: owning land,
health insurance, etc.
• Hitler orders sterilization of people with
genetic defects.
Adoph Hitler
• 1935 – Nuremburg race laws passed
against Jews.
• Nazis force abortions on women who
might pass on hereditary diseases.
• Jews can no longer serve in the military.
• 1936 – Olympics begin in Berlin – Hitler
sought to use Olympics to support his
theories of racial superiority.
American Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympics
• 1937 – Jews are banned from many
professions including dentistry.
• 1938 – Nazis enter Austria
• Jews cannot “front” their own business,
ordered to register wealth and property.
• Krystallnacht – Night of the Broken Glass
• Herman Goring – placed in charge of
handling the “Jewish Question”
Prisoners at Auschwitz
• 1939 – Nazis invade Czechoslovakia and
Poland
• Jews are placed in “ghettos” near railway
stations awaiting “final solution.”
• Nazis begin euthanasia on the sick and
old
• Nazis force Jews to wear yellow star.
Map of Concentration Camps
Dr. Josef Mengele – The Angel of
Death
1940-45
• Major concentration camps – Auschwitz,
Buchenwald, etc. – become operational
• U.S. enters the war – Dec. 7, 1941
• Mass killings of Jews begin in 1942 using
Zyklon B gas.
• June 6, 1944 – D-Day – Allied Victory
• Allied forces begin closing in on Germany
in late 1944 and begin liberating camps in
Jan. of 1945
The Battle of the Bulge (19441945)
Mengele’s Infamous Twin Studies
Now 84, these women survived.
Zyklon B Cannisters
• April 30, 1945- Hitler commits suicide.
• An estimated 6 million Jews were
executed in concentration camps.
Crematorium
Liberated Jews
Americans Liberating
Concentration Camps
Americans Liberating
Concentraiton Camps
The Yellow Star
Holocaust Shoe Exhibit
Gold Fillings Taken from Jews
Elie Wiesel
• Born in Romania
• Sent to Concentration Camp
• Wrote Night about his experiences there.
Elie Wiesel