Transcript The Holocaust

Table Of Contents
1………………….…………………………………………………..Title Page
2………………….………………………………………..….….…..Table Of Contents
3…………………..……………………………………….……..…..Introduction
4……………………..……………………………………….…….....Anne & The Frank Family
5……………………..…………………………………………..…....Adolf Hitler
6………………………..……………………………………………..Nazis
7…………………………………………………………………..…..Kristallnacht
8……………………………………………………………………....Ghettos
9…………………………………………………………………...….Ghettos Map Area
10 …………………………………………………………………….Nuremburg Laws
11 ………………………………………………………………..…..Concentration, Labor & Death Camps
12………………………………....................................................The Camps
13 …………………………………………………………………....Deportation
14…………………………………………………………….………D-Day
15 ………………………………………………………………..…..Survivors of Camps
16 ………………………………………………………………..…..Death Toll
17………………………………………………………………….…Participants In The War
18…………………………………………………………….………After Holocaust Population
19…………………………………………………….………………Conclusion
20…………………………………………………………………….Bibliography
Introduction
Holocaust is the name applied to describe the attempted genocide of
Europe's Jewish population during World War II, as part of a program of
ridding Europe of "undesirables" by the National Socialist led by Adolf Hitler.
In addition to Jews, the Nazi regime persecuted and killed other groups,
Taking into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the total number of
victims at 9 to 18 million. Adolf Hitler ostracized an entire race of people by
deliberately discriminating against everyone that was not of the Aryan race
Anne & The Frank Family
Anne Frank was a European Jewish
girl born in Germany, who wrote a
Diary while in hiding with her family
and four friends in Amsterdam during
the German Occupation of the
Netherlands in WWII. Anne was born
in Frankfurt Germany, but her family
moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the
Nazi gained power in Germany. As A
result the family went into hiding in
July 1942 in the secret Annex (which
were secret rooms) in her father Otto
Frank's office building. After two years
in hiding the group was found and
transported to concentration camps.
Seven months after her arrest, Anne
died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp within days of her
sister, Margot Frank. Her father, Otto,
the only survivor of the group, returned
to Amsterdam after the war ended, to
find that her diary had been saved.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April,
1889, in the small Austrian town of
Braunau near the German border.
Both Hitler's parents had come from
poor peasant families. Later Hitler
became Chancellor of Germany from
1933, until his death. He was leader of
the Nazi Party. At their greatest extent,
Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers
occupied most of Europe, but were
eventually defeated by the Allies. By
the end of the war, Hitler's racial
policies had culminated in the killing of
approximately 11 million people,
including the genocide of some 6
million Jews, in what is now known as
the Holocaust. In the final days of the
war, Hitler, along with his new wife,
Eva Braun, committed suicide in his
underground bunker in Berlin, as the
city was being overrun by the Red
Army of the Soviet Union.
Nazis
National Socialist
German Workers'
Party, founded in
Germany in 1919 and
brought to power in
1933 under Adolf
Hitler. Nazi members
never went by “Nazi”
they always went by
National Socialists
Kristallnacht
For 2 days (November 9–10,
1938) Jewish homes and
stores were ransacked in a
thousand German cities, towns
and villages, as ordinary
citizens and storm troopers
destroyed buildings with
sledgehammers, leaving the
streets covered in smashed
windows "Night of Broken
Glass." Jews were beaten to
death; 30,000 Jewish men
were taken to concentration
camps; and 1,668 synagogues
were destroyed or set on fire.
Ghettos
The Warsaw Ghetto was the
largest of the Jewish ghettos
established by Nazi Germany
in General Government during
the Holocaust in World War II.
In the three years of its
existence, starvation, disease
and deportations to
concentration camps and
extermination camps dropped
the population of the ghetto
from an estimated 450,000 to
37,000. The Warsaw Ghetto
was the scene of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, one of the first
mass uprisings against Nazi
occupation in Europe.
Nuremberg Laws
The Nazis announced
new laws which excluded
German Jews from Reich
citizenship and prohibited
them from marrying or
having sexual relations
with persons of "German
or related blood." This
Law also Prohibited most
political rights.
Concentration, Labor & Death
Camps
Were the facilities constructed by
Nazi Germany in World War II
where the Nazis systematically
killed millions of people. Bodies of
those killed by the Nazis were
usually either cremated or buried
in mass graves. Members of
groups whom the Nazis wished to
exterminate included Jews, Roma
Serbs, Soviet prisoners of war,
Poles, Communists, Jehovah's
Witnesses, and homosexuals
among others, were also killed in
these camps. The majority of
prisoners at these camps were not
expected to live more than 24
hours beyond arrival.
Deportation
Jews and people of
other races were
deported to
concentration camps,
labor camps & death
camps. Hitler and the
Nazi's used methods
of propaganda to get
people to go to these
dreadful places.
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, a
date known ever
since as D-Day, a
fleet of ships crossed
a narrow strip of sea
from England to
Normandy, France,
and cracked the Nazi
grip on western
Europe.
Survivors of Camps
As of 2005, of the nearly 400,000
Holocaust survivors residing in Israel, 40%
live below the poverty line, increasing
significantly since 1999
Otto Frank (Anne Franks father) is one of
the few survivors of Auschwitz death
camps.
Death Toll
An estimated 5 to 6 million Jews, including 3 million Polish Jews
1.8 – 1.9 million Christian Poles and other (non-Jewish) Poles (estimate includes
civilians killed as a result of Nazi aggression and occupation but does not include the
military casualties of Nazi aggression or the victims of the Soviet occupation of
eastern Poland and of deportations to Central Asia and Siberia)
200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti (Gypsies)
200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
80,000-200,000 European Freemasons
100,000 communists
10,000–25,000 homosexual men
2,500–5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses
Auschwitz II: about 1,400,000
Belzec: at least 436,000
Chelmno:at least 152,000
Majdanek: 78,000 - 235,000
Sobibór: at least 170,000
Treblinka: at least 800,000
Jasenovac: 500,000-840,000
Maly Trostenets: at least 60,000
Participants In The War
ParticipantsTimelineSpecific articles
Allies
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
United States
Rep. of China
Poland
France
Free France
Netherlands
Belgium
Canada
Norway
Greece
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Philippines
India
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Brazil
Axis Powers
Germany
Japan
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Finland
Croatia
Slovakia
Thailand
After The Holocaust Population
Conclusion
The Holocaust was one of the darkest hours in the
history of humanity. Hitler's plan to eliminate the Jews
and final solution nearly became a reality. Although
Germany was a modern and civilized nation, the lives of
over 11 million people were taken. The question
remains, why was the Holocaust allowed to happen?
Could it happen again?
Bibliography
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“The Holocaust” Spartacus. New York
Publishing Company. 2/27/06.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.ht
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“Adolf Hitler” Wikipedia. New York Times
Publishing Company. 2/27/06.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_hitler
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Sheehan, Sean “The Death Camps” The Holocaust.
2001. Raintree Steck Vaughn Publishers. 2/27/06.