Transcript PPT- Never Again

The Promise of Never Again:
The Holocaust
Journal
• Describe a time you
witnessed an injustice.
Did you speak out
against it? If so, what
inspired you to act?
Why didn’t you act?
Holocaust
•The original definition of the word means a
great or complete devastation or destruction,
especially by fire.
•After World War II, the term was used to refer
to the systematic and calculated slaughter of
civilians, especially Jews
Nazi
Power
(1933-1939)
Hitler rises to power in Germany
He promotes ideas of German nationalism
& racial hatred of the Jewish people
He believes that Germany needs
lebensraum (living space) and racial purity.
Jewish Persecution
•Jewish persecution
has been going on
throughout Europe for
many centuries.
•In 1933, the Nazis
made Jewish
persecution a
government policy.
–Laws passed to
discriminate against
Jews
–Used “science” to
justify persecution
Nazi Propaganda
"The year is over.
The struggle goes on!"
KRISTALLNACHT
“Night of Broken Glass”
In wave of
German anger,
Jewish businesses
and homes are
destroyed in 1938.
Major step in Nazi
policy of Jewish
persecution
Ghettos
(1939-1941)
Segregated & overcrowded areas that Jewish people
were herded into.
Became transition areas before being sent to
death/work camps
Dwellers were given ration cards (300 calories/day)
Ghettos were filthy with poor sanitation
Approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw ghetto in early 1941. At this time, the ghetto contained about 840
acres, of which 760 acres were habitable. About 37% of the Greater Warsaw population was squeezed into 4.6% of the
area of the city.
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 95.
Smuggling food
Forced Labor
Homeless Children
Jewish Resistance
Despite difficult
conditions, many
Jews held on
Examples
Smuggled food
& other needed
items
Maintained
traditions
Secret schools
Scholars kept
records
The Final Solution
 FINAL SOLUTION: a program of
GENOCIDE—systemic killing of an
entire people
 Why?:To preserve “Aryan” purity
 Who was targeted?:Jews, Gypsies,
Poles & Russians. Also the insane, the
disabled, incurably ill & homosexuals
SHOOTING PROVES TOO SLOW,
COSTLY AND EMOTIONALLY
DRAINING ON THE SOLDIERS.
THE ANSWER
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
The Concentration Camps
Types of Camps
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2.
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4.
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Labor
Death
Transit
Prisoner of War
Living/Working
conditions:
1. Brutal
2. Worked 7 days a
week
3. Little food
4. Poor Conditions
(1941-1942)
The Final Stage: Mass Extermination
 In 1942, Nazi death camps built
equipped with gas chambers (6000/day)
and crematoriums
Human Losses
• An estimated 6,000,000 Jews died were
killed during the Holocaust
– 2/3 of the Jewish population in Europe
– Entire families are gone
• Approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000
others were killed during the Holocaust
(Gypsies, homosexuals, Polish people,
Russians, mentally retarded, and others)
• At least 50,000,000 people died during
the course of World War II
“Never Again” by Remedy
Listen to the
song and follow
along with the
lyrics on the page
in front of you
Underline or
circle words or
phrases you hear
that relate to the
Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/spring_2005/Never_Again.mp3
HOLOCAUST ACROSTIC POEM
• Create an acrostic poem using the
letters in the word HOLOCAUST
• Each line must have at least 3 words.