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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. Description History Victims Concentration Camps Liberation and Beyond. Description. What is The Holocaust?. Holocaust was originally a Jewish term that meant "a burnt sacrifice offered to God"

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust Description History Victims Concentration Camps Liberation and Beyond

  2. Description

  3. What is The Holocaust? • Holocaust was originally a Jewish term that meant "a burnt sacrifice offered to God" • Now refers to the systematic annihilation (complete removal) of European Jews and other minority groups by Nazi Germany

  4. History

  5. Timeline • The Holocaust is considered to have taken place between 1933-1945 • World War II officially took place between 1939-1945

  6. 1933 Hitler comes to power, along with his Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers • 1933 “Nuremberg Laws” make Jewish people second class citizens and Jewish businesses are boycotted

  7. 1933-1935 plans to reduce genetic inferiors by sterilization • 1933-1939 minorities are sent to concentration camps • 1937-1939 Jews are not allowed to attend public schools or theatres, and could not live or even walk within certain sections of town

  8. Plundered items from Jewish homes

  9. 1938 During Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), Jews are arrested, and their homes and synagogues are destroyed • 1939 Germany invades Poland, start of WWII, Germans view Polish as subhuman • 1942-1944 Polish Jews sent to extermination camps • May 1945 Defeat of Nazi Germany

  10. Victims

  11. “While not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims.” ~Elie Wiesel

  12. Gestapo beating a Jew

  13. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ~Elie Wiesel

  14. Other minorities targeted • Physically handicapped • Mentally handicapped • Gypsies • Homosexuals • Jehovah’s Witnesses

  15. Gypsies in Concentration Camp

  16. “Wartime was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill.” ~Adolf Hitler

  17. Children • Did not escape the terror • 1 ½ million Jewish and minority children were murdered

  18. Jewish child in Ghetto

  19. Children being deported

  20. Concentration Camps

  21. Women and children were usually seen as useless • Only those who could work or perform jobs were kept alive • Those who were allowed to live were disinfected and their heads were shaved • Many were killed in the “poison gas” showers

  22. Crematory from Concentration Camp

  23. Men in Concentration Camp Wiesel is in this picture

  24. Glasses of those murdered in Concentration Camp

  25. Sorting through clothes of people murdered in concentration camp

  26. Mass Grave

  27. Mass Burning

  28. “Indifference makes that person dead before the person dies.” ~Elie Wiesel

  29. Liberation

  30. Most people had few family members left • Many people left Germany and Poland for other countries • Some went to “Displaced Persons” camps

  31. Liberation from a Concentration Camp

  32. Removal of the Nazi Symbol after Liberation

  33. Elie Wiesel 1928-

  34. 1986 won Nobel Peace Prize • Currently a professor at Boston University • Survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald • Published Night, a memoir of his time in the concentration camps, in 1960.

  35. (Left) Wiesel at age 15, (Right) Wiesel in Concentration Camp

  36. Oprah’s interview with Elie Wiesel Click Here

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