Transcript THE HOLOCAUST

A LESSON IN TOLERANCE
May we never let it happen again…
NIGHT
BY ELIE WIESEL
Why did
World War II
happen?
WWII > why did it happen?
world
war
II
 Nationalistic tension
 Unresolved issues from world
war I
 Effects of the great depression
 Economic turmoil in Germany
 Political vacuum in Germany
 1937 Japanese invasion of china
 1939 German invasion of Poland
 1941 Japanese bombing of pearl
harbor
The Allies
The Axis
Nazi Germany
United States of America
United Soviet Socialist Republic
United Kingdom
japan
Italy
China
Hungary
France
Romania
Poland
Bulgaria
Canada
Finland
Australia
Thailand
New Zealand
Iraq
South Africa
Netherlands
Holocaust (hol·o·caust): n 1. Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life,
especially by fire
2. Greek word that means burnt whole or consumed by fire
Holocaust Victims…
6
million Jews
 1.5 million children under 12
 “Other
Undesirables”
 5 million
11 MILLION KILLED
Conditions in Germany
at the end of WWI

Germany was a defeated
nation
 Peace Treaty
requirements
 Stock Market Crash

Nazis and Germans are not
the same
 Nazi Party
 German citizens
WWII > who was Hitler?
Adolf
Hitler
 A German soldier in world war I
 A powerful public speaker
 The man Germany hoped would
help fix their economic
problems in the aftermath of
world war I
 The elected leader of Germany
 The leader of the Nazi political
party
 An enemy of the Jewish people
 The infamous initiator of the
holocaust, one of the worst
events in human history.
Adolf Hitler
courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Photo credit: USHMM Photo Archives
Photo credit: National Archives,
courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Rise of the Nazi Party
Hitler’s
Promises
Better
life
courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Germany
great
nation
Racial
Hitler Youth Parade
Hitler Youth march through Nuremberg, Germany past Nazi officials.
purity
In the
Beginning…
The Nuremberg Laws
“You have no right to live among
us as Jews.”
“You have no right to
live among us.”
“You have no right to live !”
Photo credit: Leopold Page Photographic Collection
1936 Olympics
courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
German citizens salute Adolf Hitler at
the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Family being forced into Ghettos
Ghetto Star
People being “resettled” to Concentration Camps
Prisoners arriving at the camps…
Entrance to Auschwitz
“Work Will set you free”
Crowded Conditions
Photo credit: German National Archives
Even the very young…
eyeglasses
Shoes
Resistance
Righteous Among the Nations
– Oskar Schindler
– Raoul Wallenberg
– Varian Fry
Fry
Wallenberg
Schindler
Liberated Russian children cheer / Dachau
Anger
Scapegoat
Prejudice
Racism
Stereotypes
Ignorance
Bigotry
Hatred
Blame
Intimidation
What role will you play?
Conscience and
Courage
“In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up
because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade
unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a
trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and
I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then
they came for me – and by that time no one was left
to speak up.”
-Reverend Martin Niemoeller,
Protestant minister, Germany,
and concentration camp survivor
Have Any Genocides Occurred
Since the Holocaust?
Holocaust refers specifically to the
Jewish/Undesirables Genocide we have presented
today
 Genocide - mass murder of a group of people
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1988 Kurdish genocide in Turkey and Iraq
1990 Rwandan genocide in Africa
1991 – 1995 Bosnian genocide in Europe
May we never let it happen again…
Auschwitz - Birkenau
NIGHT
BY ELIE WIESEL
Who was
Elie Wiesel?
WWII > who is Elie Wiesel?
Elie
Wiesel
 One of the most discussed
Jewish holocaust survivors
 Born in Romania
 Family was deported and
bounced from camp to camp
 Won Nobel peace prize in 1986
 Born 9/30/28
 Published night in 1960, but it
took 3 years to sell 3,000 copies
 Today, his memoir has been
translated into 30 languages. It
has been selected to Oprah
Winfrey’s book club.
 He refused to make a film.
WWII > who is Elie Wiesel?
Elie Wiesel's Home
In Sighet, Romania
2010 time 100
Photo credit: David Shankbone
WWII > who is Elie Wiesel?
addressing
the United
States
Congress
Buchenwald, 1945.
Wiesel is in the second row from
the bottom, seventh from the left.
2008 World
Economic
Forum
WWII > who is Elie Wiesel?
elie Wiesel’s
memoir
night