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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, statesponsored persecutions and murders by the Nazi regime and
its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin
meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power
in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were
“racially superior” and that Jews, deemed “inferior,” were
an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also
targeted other groups because of their perceived “racial
inferiority”: Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the
Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups
were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral
grounds, among them Communists, Socialists and
Jehovah’s Witnesses.
PERSECUTION: The systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by
another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic
persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap
between these terms. (Reported by World Magazine in November 2004)
Anti –Semitism
Anti-Semitism-Hostility
toward or prejudice against
Jews or Judaism;
discrimination against
Jews.
Aryan Race
This was the name of what Hitler
believed was the perfect race. These
were people with full German blood,
blonde hair and blue eyes.
*For hundreds of years Christian Europe
had regarded the Jews as the Christkillers.
*After the First World War, hundreds of
Jews were blamed for the defeat in the
War. Prejudice against the Jews grew
during the economic depression which
followed.
*At one time or another Jews had been
driven out of almost every European
country. The way they were treated in
England in the thirteenth century is a
typical example.
*Many Germans were poor and
unemployed and wanted someone to
blame (a scapegoat). They turned on the
Jews, many of whom were rich and
successful in business.
A scapegoat is a person or group
made to bear the blame for others
or to suffer in their place.
Between 1939 and 1945
six million Jews were
murdered, along with
hundreds of thousands of
others, such as Gypsies,
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
disabled and the
mentally ill.
Percentage of Jews killed in each country
A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS
USED BY THE NAZIS.
Death camps and Concentration camps
Death camp: Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other
victims were brought to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution.
Concentration camp: A camp where civilians, enemy aliens,
political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained
and confined, typically under harsh conditions.
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the
territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps were
greatly expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in 1933, and
were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the
regime. They grew rapidly through the 1930s as political opponents
and many other groups of people were incarcerated without trial or
judicial process.
16 of the 44 children
taken from a French
children’s home.
They were sent to a
concentration camp
and later to
Auschwitz.
ONLY 1 SURVIVED
A group of
children at a
concentration
camp in Poland.
WHAT IS A VICTIM?
A victim is somebody who is harmed or killed by another.
WHAT IS A SURVIVOR?
A Survivor is a person who continues to function or prosper
in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks; a person or thing
that survives
Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B
poison gas pellets found at Majdanek
death camp.
Before poison gas was used ,
Jews were gassed in mobile
gas vans. Carbon monoxide
gas from the engine’s exhaust
was fed into the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were
dead by the time they reached
the burial site.
Smoke rises as the
bodies are burnt.
Portrait of two-year-old
Mania Halef, a Jewish
child who was among the
33,771 persons shot by
the SS during the mass
executions at Babi Yar,
September, 1941.
Nazis sift through a huge pile of clothes
left by victims of the massacre.
Two year old Mani Halef’s clothes are somewhere
amongst these.
Bales of hair shaven
from women at
Auschwitz, used to
make felt-yarn.
After liberation, an Allied
soldier displays a stash of
gold wedding rings taken
from victims at Buchenwald.
In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million.
Nazis ordered the bodies of those buried to be dug up and burned to
destroy all traces. Why do you think they did this?
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.
WHY?
“Until September 14, 1939 my life
was typical of a young Jewish boy
in that part of the world in that
period of time.
I lived in a Jewish community
surrounded by gentiles. Aside
from my immediate family, I had
many relatives and knew all the
town people, both Jews and
gentiles. Almost two weeks after
the outbreak of the war and shortly
after my Bar Mitzvah, my world
exploded.
In the course of the next five and a
half years I lost my entire family
and almost everyone I ever knew.
Death, violence and brutality
became a daily occurrence in my
life while I was still a young
teenager.”
Leonard Lerer, 1991
STUDENT INPUT!
***I NEED A VOLUNTEER TO GIVE ME A SUMMARY
OF WHAT THIS PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT.
•WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM THIS
PRESENTATION?
•HOW DOES THIS INFORMATION MAKE YOU FEEL?
•WHAT PART STUCK OUT TO YOU THE MOST?
•HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ADOLF HITLER NOW?
WHAT KIND OF MAN WAS HE REALLY?
HOMEWORK: WRITE A 1 PARAGRAPH SUMMARY
OF WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE
HOLOCAUST AND ADOLF HITLER, MAKE SURE TO
INCLUDE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE.
WRITE THESE QUESTIONS DOWN SO YOU DON’T
FORGET!...FINISH CINQUAIN POEM FROM CLASS.
WHAT IS A CINQUAIN POEM?
A Cinquain poem is a highly structured form of poetry. It
requires a fluent and flexible writer. The format contains
attention to word choice, word meaning, syllabication, and
parts of speech, while at the same time expressing a
meaningful message.
These poems are short unrhymed poems consisting of
twenty-two syllables. They were distributed into 2, 4, 6, 8, 2
syllables in five lines. This type of poetry was related to
Japanese literary styles.
TRUE CINQUAIN FORMAT:
Line 1: Decide on a one word title (noun - person, place or thing).
(2 syllables)
Line 2: Choose two words that describe your title (adjective –
describes something). (4 syllables)
Line 3: Choose three words that tell you something that the title
can do (verb – action words). (6 syllables)
Line 4: Choose a four words phrase that describes a feeling about
your title. (8 syllables)
Line 5: Think of one word that refers back to your title (synonym
– a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as
another word or other words in a language). (2 syllables)
*Syllable – A unit of sound composed of: a central peak of
sonority (usually a vowel), and the consonants that cluster around
its central peak. (clap to see how many syllables a word has).
EXAMPLES:
Snowman
Chubby, cheerful
Waiting, grinning, winking
Icy weather keeps him smiling
Frosty
Penny
Round, smooth
Tossing, flipping, shining
Make a special wish
Lucky