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Holocaust Overview

Holocaust Overview. Intro to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. 1933. Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws are established. The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands. First concentration camp opened. Jewish businesses boycotted.

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Holocaust Overview

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  1. Holocaust Overview Intro to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

  2. 1933 • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. • The first anti-Jewish laws are established. • The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands. • First concentration camp opened. • Jewish businesses boycotted. • “Undesirables” sent to camps.

  3. 1934-1935 • Jewish persecution gets stronger. • Nuremberg Laws designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that: • Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. • Jews cannot marry non-Jews. • Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.

  4. 1938 • Austrian Jews persecuted • Munich synagogue destroyed • Jewish passports stamped with 'J' • 9-10 November 1938: Kristallnacht, “Night of Broken Glass” (see LINK HERE and Below) • 100 Jews were murdered; 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps; Hundreds of synagogues burned; and the windows of Jewish shops, schools, and homes all over Germany and Austria smashed. • Jews fined one billion marks for the damage. • Jewish children expelled from schools.

  5. 1939-1940 • Austrian and Czech Jews deported to Poland. • Yellow Star introduced. • European Jews persecuted and many were sent to concentration camps. • Auschwitz concentration camp opened . • The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off. • There were around 400,000 Jewish people inside .

  6. 1941-1942 • After the German invasion of Russia, the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads made up of German and Russian volunteers/soldiers) began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000+ Jews are murdered in two days near Kiev, alone. • Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement “Final Solution.” (for more on the “Final Solution,” see LINK and below). • First “Death Camp” was opened at Chelmno. • Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz-Birkenau • Summer 1942 Jews from all over Europe were sent to “Death Camps.” • Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day.

  7. Arrival at Camp • Overfilled train to camp • Gold teeth removed from prisoners’ mouths • Crowds entering camp for the first time

  8. Camp Life • Children used in medical experiments • Ovens used to burn bodies (alive and dead) • Barracks

  9. Mass Grave

  10. Camp Map: You Are Here

  11. Additional Online Sources • BBC (British Broadcast Company) Interactive Map of Europe and Holocaust • Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass--History.com • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum entry--Final Solution • A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz • Full Documentary: Dear Kitty • Anne Frank.org--The Fate of the Women in the Secret Annex

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