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Holocaust
An Introduction
Antisemitism
• Prejudice against or hatred of Jews
Jewish Life in Europe Before WWII
•60% of the world’s Jewish population lived in Europe
Aftermath of WWI
•Germany was in a social and economic upheaval.
Nazi Rise to Power
Stage I
• 1933-1939
– Nazi rise to
power begins
Third Reich
– Early stages
of
persecution
– First
concentration
camps
Stage II
• 1939-1945
– World War II in
Europe
– Euthanasia Program
– Persecution and
murder of Jews
– Ghettos
– Mobile killing squads
– Expansion of
concentration camp
system
– Killing centers
– Additional victims of
Nazi persecution
– Jewish resistance
– Rescue
– United States
– Death marches
– Liberation
Stage III
• Post 1945
– Postwar trials
– Displaced persons
camps
– Emigration
Books to Read
• Presents the writings
and drawings of
teenager, Petr Ginz,
who died in 1944 at
Auschwitz, recording
his life under Nazi
occupation, his
transport to and life
at Thereisenstadt
concentration camp
at fourteen, ending
just prior to his
transport to
Auschwitz.
Books to Read
• The author tells the
story of her family's
experiences as Jews in
Hitler's Germany,
tracing their horrifying
journey from their
home country to
Holland and back
again, living in refugee,
transit, and prison
camps, including
Bergen-Belson.
Books to Read
• Recounts how Frans
Braal, a resistance
worker in Holland,
and his family
risked their own
lives to protect
Dutch Jews from
Nazi troops during
World War II, using
the story of a
fictional child to tell
the true story of the
family's bravery.
Books to Read
• A recounting drawn
from historic source
material of the
many individual
acts of heroism
performed by
righteous gentiles
who sought to
thwart the
extermination of
the Jews during the
Holocaust.
Books to Read
• Bored and lonely
after his family
moves from Berlin
to a place called
"Out-With" in
1942, Bruno, the
son of a Nazi
officer, befriends a
boy in striped
pajamas who lives
behind a wire
fence.
Books to Read
• A novel based on
the experiences of
Suzanne David
Hall, who, as a
teenager in Nazioccupied France,
worked as a spy
for the French
Resistance while
training to be an
opera singer.
Books to Read
• Presents the life
and exploits of a
Nazi-hunter,
including the stories
of how he caught
and brought to
justice such
infamous war
criminals as Adolph
Eichmann.
Sources
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org
• Gruener, Ruth. Destined to Live: A True Story
of a Child in the Holocaust. New York :
Scholastic, © 2007.
• Sherwood, Ben. The Survivors Club: The
Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life.
New York : Grand Central Publishing, © 2009