Transcript The Holocaust - Revere Local Schools

The Holocaust
Holocaust
 Systematic
mass slaughter of Jews
and other groups judged inferior.
 Hitler favored the _____________
or “master race”
 Aryan refers to Indo-European
peoples who began to migrate into
the Indian sub-continent
Steps in Hitler’s Holocaust
Stir up hatred/indoctrinate-(propaganda link)
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html#/
gallery/
 Identification of Jews
 Slowly take away citizenship/personal freedoms
 Segregation Laws-Nuremburg race laws
 Ghettos
 Concentration Camps
 Death Camps
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Others targeted
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Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals,
the dissenting clergy, disabled,
Communists, Socialists, asocial, and
other political enemies.
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http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/People/Victims.htm
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http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
&MediaId=3372
The Holocaust (1941-45)
Of the 60 million World War II deaths,_______
million people died in German death camps
including 3.5 million Russians, and 6 million
Jews (2/3rds of all European Jews)
 The word ________________ was given to the
killing of the 6 million Jews because it was a
war of extermination designed to wipe out an
entire group of people.
 Hitler’s “Final Solution”
 Systematic genocide
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Holocaust Chronology
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Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish
population of 566,000.
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April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage a boycott of Jewish
shops and businesses.
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April 11, 1933 - Nazis issue a decree defining a
non-Aryan as "anyone descended from nonAryan, especially Jewish parents or
grandparents. One Jewish parent or
grandparent classifies the descendant as nonAryan.
Holocaust Chronology
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July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only
legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass a law to
strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their
German citizenship.
July 1933- Nazis pass laws allowing for forced
sterilization of those found by a Hereditary
Health Court to have genetic defects.
Nov 24, 1933 - Nazis pass a Law against
Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows
beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the
unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
Sept 15, 1935 – Nuremburg Laws
Nuremberg Race Laws of
1935
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Deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship,
giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich.
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The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have
sexual relations with Aryans.
The Nuremberg Laws had the unexpected result of
causing confusion and heated debate over who was
a "full Jew."
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The Nazis settled on defining a "full Jew" as a person with
three Jewish grandparents. Those with less were
designated as Mischlinge.
After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a dozen
supplemental Nazi decrees were issued that eventually
outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their
rights as human beings.
The white figures
represent
Aryans; the black
figures represent
Jews; and the
shaded figures
represent
Mischlinge.
Holocaust Chronology
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July 23, 1938 - Nazis order Jews over age 15 to
apply for Identification cardsfrom the police, to be
shown on demand to any police officer.
November 1938-Kristallnacht “Night of Broken
Glass” Jewish homes and businesses destroyed.
100 Jewish people are killed
Oct 1939- Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and
disabled in Germany.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005200&MediaId=881
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March 7, 1941 - German Jews ordered into forced
labor.
A Jewish man
wearing the yellow
star walks along a
street in Germany.
Ghettos
 The
Jewish people were forced to
live in designated areas of European
cities.
 The areas were sealed off with
barbed wire and stone blocks
 Many Jewish people starved to
death or died of disease.
One of the most famous photos taken during
the Holocaust shows Jewish families arrested
by Nazis during the destruction of the Warsaw
Ghetto in Poland, and sent to be gassed at
Treblinka extermination camp.
“Final Solution”
 The
Nazis plan to annihilate the Jewish
population.
 To
carry out the final solution there were
three types of concentration camps
• Labor camps
• Holding camps
• Death camps
Concentration Camps
 If
you survived the ghetto you could
eventually be transported to a
concentration camp or death camp
 Concentration Camps were areas to
hold Jews and others considered in
superior. People were starved and
worked to death.
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http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145&
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Concentration Camps
 Many
Jews taken to concentration
camps, or labor camps
 families often separated
 Camps were originally prisons; given
to the SS to warehouse “undesirables”
 Prisoners were crammed into wooden
barracks and given little food
 Work dawn to dusk, 7 days per week
 Those too weak to work are killed
"The brute Schmidt was our guard; he beat and kicked
us if he thought we were not working fast enough. He
ordered his victims to lie down and gave them 25
lashes with a whip, ordering them to count out loud. If
the victim made a mistake, he was given 50 lashes. . . .
Thirty or 40 of us were shot every day. A doctor
usually prepared a daily list of the weakest men.
During the lunch break they were taken to a nearby
grave and shot. They were replaced the following
morning by new arrivals from the transport of the day.
. . . It was a miracle if anyone survived for five or six
months in Belzec."—RUDOLF REDER quoted in The
Holocaust
Death Camps
 Places
where people were
transported for extermination
 Many
were gassed and then either
buried in mass graves or cremated
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murdered
Video link liberation of Majdanek
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145&MediaId=210
Video link-Auschwitz liberation
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005151&MediaId=238
At Belzec death camp, SS Guards
stand in formation outside the
kommandant's house.
A view of Majdanek, which
served as a concentration camp
and also as a killing center for
Jews.
Liberation Begins
Systematic killing began
in 1941 and by Jan. 27,
1945 Soviet troops
liberated Auschwitz. By
this time, an estimated
2,000,000 persons,
including 1,500,000
Jews, have been
murdered there.
 April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th
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Conclusion
 The
saying from the Holocaust is
Never Forget.
 Why
is their still genocide in the
world?
 What
makes the Holocaust different
from other genocides
Initial Jewish
Populatio
n
Estimated %
Killed
Estimated
Killed
POLAND
3,300,000
91%
3,000,000
300,000
USSR
3,020,000
36%
1,100,000
1,920,000
HUNGARY
800,000
74%
596,000
204,000
GERMANY
566,000
36%
200,000
366,000
FRANCE
350,000
22%
77,320
272,680
ROMANIA
342,000
84%
287,000
55,000
AUSTRIA
185,000
35%
65,000
120,000
LITHUANIA
168,000
85%
143,000
25,000
NETHERLANDS
140,000
71%
100,000
40,000
MORAVIA
118,310
60%
71,150
47,160
LATVIA
95,000
84%
80,000
15,000
SLOVAKIA
88,950
80%
71,000
17,950
YUGOSLAVIA
78,000
81%
63,300
14,700
GREECE
77,380
87%
67,000
10,380
BELGIUM
65,700
45%
28,900
36,800
ITALY
44,500
17%
7,680
36,820
ESTONIA
4,500
44%
2,000
2,500
LUXEMBOURG
3,500
55%
1,950
1,550
9,508,340
63%
5,962,129
3,546,211
Country
Statistics of the Holocaust
Number of
Survivors
BOHEMIA
TOTAL
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There have been many massacres during the
course of world history. And the Nazis murdered
many non-Jews in concentration camps.
What is unique about Hitler’s Final Solution of the
Jewish Problem,” was the Nazi’s determination to
murder without exception every single Jew who
came within grasp, and the fanaticism, ingenuity,
and cruelty with which they pursued their goal.
Life in a Concentration
Camp
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A prisoner in Dachau is
forced to stand without
moving for endless hours as
a punishment. He is wearing
a triangle patch identification
on his chest.
A chart of prisoner triangle
identification markings used
in Nazi concentration camps
which allowed the guards to
easily see which type of
prisoner any individual was.
Nazis sift through the enormous
pile of clothing left behind by the
victims of a massacre. (1941)
Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943
exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi
Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over
33,000 Jews in September of 1941.
Survivors in Mauthausen open one of
the crematoria ovens for American
troops who are inspecting the camp.
A warehouse full of shoes and clothing
confiscated from the prisoners and
deportees gassed upon their arrival.
The Nazis shipped these goods to
Germany.
A mass grave in BergenBelsen concentration camp.
Young survivors behind a
barbed wire fence in
Buchenwald.
Holocaust Research Project
1. Research one of the following
topics to present to the class
through a SHORT power point.
People targeted
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Mobile Killing Squads
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Kristallnacht
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Nazi Medical experiments
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Survivor story
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Rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe
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Jewish resistance attempts
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Aftermath/punishment
2. Create a short power point explaining
your topic and its significance in the
Holocaust.
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Slides should not be wordy
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Include at least 3 pictures
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No more than 10 slides
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Have a title slide and resource slide
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Power point design should be visually
pleasing and easy to read
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3. Provide fill in notes for the
class-you must provide a
copy to me the day before
you present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Presentations should be
shared by the group.
5. Be sure to have good eye
contact and an audible voice.
6. Do not read directly from your
power point!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good site to use for a reference
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http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/
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