Transcript The Holocaust Stephaniex

The Holocaust:
Rescuers & Survivors
By: Stephanie
SWBAT: Questions students be able to answer…
• Who were the victims?
• What did rescuers do to
save the innocents?
• How many people in total
to each victimized nation
were killed?
• What other group of
people were placed in the
Ghettos?
• Why did the Nazi parties
place different triangles of
the majority of people?
Timeline
(1918-2001)
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Rise of the Nazi Party (1918-1933). During the fourteen (14) years toward the end of
WWII, the Nazi party grew from a small political group to an enormous and most
powerful in Germany.
The Ghettos (1939-1941). Bringing the Jews to ghettos, a boarded up area for Jewish
people only, was Hitler’s final solution.
The Camps ( 1941-1942). The concentration camps were Hitler's final step in killing all
the Jewish people.
Resistance (1942-1944). The people were very resistant. It was set in their minds that is
was basically steal and do something about it to live or die all together. They would
steal slices of bread to eliminate the Nazi parties.
Rescue and Liberation (1944-1945). Some survived though the heroes of neighbors;
others were taken over seas by allies, like Italy.
Aftermath (1945-2000). After the war ,Nazi parties faced punishment for their war
crimes and survivors began rebuilding their lives.
Introduction to the Holocaust
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The Holocaust was a war of hatred, which brought on persecutions and murders of innocent people.
Approx. 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi parties.
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During this castrophy ,Germans also targets other groups because of their so called “ racial images”. They
targeted: Roma (gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others).
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Other targets were persecuted on political views, behavioral backrounds.Many more to be Communists,
Socialists, Jehovah witnesses, and Homosexuals.
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By 1945, the Germans and their parties killed nearly 2 / every 3 European Jews as part of Hitler’s “Final
Solution”, to murder them.
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Many others died of stavation,diseases,neglect, and maltreatment.
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Approx. 11 million people of the targeted races were killed because of the Nazi Genocides.
The Victims
Most people were sent to concentration camps. Prisoners were forced to
wear various colored triangles, each color and letter representing a
different group.
Polish Victims & Rescuers
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In concentration camps, they were forced to wear this symbol.
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On August 22, 1939, a few days before the official start of World War II, Hitler
authorized his commanders, with these infamous words, to kill "without pity
or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language.
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By October 8, 1939, all Jews & Non-Jews were taken away rights. They weren’t
allowed in public places and were given strict curfews.
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Young Polish men were forcibly drafted into the German army.
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The Polish language was forbidden. Only the German language was allowed.
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Polish art and culture were destroyed.
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Polish churches and synagogues were burned.
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Most of the priests were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
The Rescuer
Irena Sendler (1910-2008),
• Recently 98 and a member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews.
•"I was taught that if you see a person drowning," she said, "you must jump into the water to
save them, whether you can swim or not." · Irena Sendler
•She buried jars containing their real and assumed names in the garden, so that they could be
one day learn the names of their biological families after the war.
Jewish Victims
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Following the military defeat of Poland by Germany in
September 1939, the Germans made it brutal for the
Polish people.
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The Germans shot thousands of Polish teachers, priests,
and other intellectuals in mass killings in and around
Warsaw.
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Many of the Polish victims were sent to concentration
camps in Germany where non-Jewish Poles in March
1942.
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Approximately 50,000 Polish children were taken from
their families, transferred to the Reich (a concentration
camp).
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Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1.5 million Polish
citizens were deported to German territory for forced
labor. Hundreds of thousands were also imprisoned in
Nazi concentration camps.
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It is estimated that the Germans killed at least 1.9 million
non-Jewish Polish civilians during World War II. In
addition, the Germans murdered at least 3 million Jewish
citizens of Poland.
The Rescuer
Oscar Schindler
Died October 9, 1974
He rose to the highest level of humanity, walked through the bloody mud of
the Holocaust without soiling his soul, his compassion, his respect for human
life - and gave his Jews a second chance at life. He miraculously managed to
do it and pulled it off by using the very same talents that made him a war
profiteer - his flair for presentation, bribery, and grand gestures.
Roma (Gypsies)
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Roma people are nomadic people who believed
to have come from northeast India.
Roma people are known as gypsies, in which the
Germans hated their beliefs.
Although Roma had been persecuted and killed
for centries,Nazi parties continued to persecute,
viewing the Roma both as social and as a racial
inner fear to Germans.
In concentration camps, gypsies wore a black
triangle with a letter “T” on it.
Gypsies, like Jewish people, were paralleled the
same: they were both deported to the Ghettos
and both were murdered.
Many Roma people in the East-Russia, Poland,
and the Ukrainian.
Many were shot by killing squads called
Einsatzgruppen.
In total,hundreads of thousands of Roma people
were killed.
Polish & other Slavic's
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Many Polish Christians and Slavs were Ukrainian and
byelorussians,a part of the Soviet Union; They were
party of the Nazi Germany hatred of WWII.
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Millions were deported to Germany for forced labor.
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Many in the camps were of
teachers,physicians,business owners,engineers,and
writers were prisoned in concentration camps and
publically killed.
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Like the Roma gypsies, tens of thousands of Ukrainians
were executed by the killing squads, Einsatzgruppen.
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Many Polish or Slavic people was categorized as a
criminal,asocail (inconsiderate),political prisoner, and
so on to names of hatred from the Germans.
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More than a millions Non-Jews were slaughtered and
killed in Slavic countries.
Jehovah Witnesses
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By 1933,there were about twenty thousand.
Unlike Jews and Roma (Gypsies), whom the
Nazis targeted for perceived racial reasons,
Jehovah's Witnesses had the option to avoid
persecution and personal harm by submitting to
state authority and serving in the armed forces.
Since such submission would violate their
religious beliefs, the vast majority of Jehovah's
Witnesses refused to abandon their faith even in
the face of persecution, torture in concentration
camps, or death.
About 10,000 Jehovah witnesses were sent to
concentration camps. Of those 2,500 to 5,000
died in Dachau, Belsen, Buchenwald,
Auschwitz, and other camps.
Homosexuals
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The policy of persecuting homosexuals began in
Germany in 1933.
They were prohibited in public areas and in
general.
Homosexuals were mainly persecuted by being
burned to death.
German police raided gay clubs and bars and
made arrests to send most to prisons, which then
they were mistreated and tormented by the other
inmates.
An estimation of 5,000-15,000 were sent to
concentration camps.
German and Austrian gays were arrested and
sent to camps while in German-occupied
countries, Nazi did not deport them or send them
to camps.
Other Victims
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When the Nazis came to power there were hundreds of
African-German children living in Rhineland.
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They were the offspring of the German mothers and African
soldiers brought in during the French occupation.
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Hitler claimed theses children to be part of the Jewish plot to
begin “bastardizing the European continent at its core.”
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Under the Nazis, African-German children were labeled
“Rhineland Bastards”.
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The Nazis also targeted many prostitutes,alcohilics,and others
who were considered unfit for society.
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Some victims found that they were in danger from Nazi
persecution too late to leave their countries. Others thought the
Nazi dictatorship could never survive. For many, Nazi racial
policy was too irrational to even comprehend. Many Jews felt
that they were as much German, Dutch, French, or Polish as
anyone else in their communities.
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Life in hiding from the Nazis was a daily struggle. Those
hidden lived in constant terror of being discovered. People in
hiding were discovered frequently. The consequences of being
found for hiders and those hiding them were grave, often
resulting in brutal death at the hands of special police squads.
A Survivor of the Many Others
Anita Mayer
“My parents, my brother, and I ran through the kitchen into the pantry outside.
In an open bicycle shed behind the house, we tried desperately to hide on the
floor between bicycles and pieces of wood. Our luck had run out. Within
minutes the house was surrounded by Nazis.”
Refection Page
• I believe, despite my oral presentation, that I deserve
a decent grade of at least a B.My time and effort was
put into making this project my best.However,it could
have been a little bit better.
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