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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. The Holocaust. Nazi ’ s propose new racial order Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples All non-Aryans were inferior: especially Jewish Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other groups (Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans, Mentally-Handicapped) Holocaust begins

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. The Holocaust • Nazi’s propose new racial order • Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples • All non-Aryans were inferior: especially Jewish • Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other groups • (Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans, Mentally-Handicapped) • Holocaust begins • Jews became targets of German failures • Nuremberg Laws- took away rights of Jews • Citizenship, marriages

  3. “night of broken glass” • German diplomat shot in Paris • By Grynszpan: for revenge of father being deported to Poland • Germans launch attack on Jews • This night will be known as kristallnacht • Kristallnacht became a major policy of Jewish persecution • Flood of Refugees • Jews will flee Germany • Hitler called it a “Jewish problem” • Other countries will turn down the influx of Jewish immigrants • Isolating the Jews • Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas • Ghettos were then sealed off with barbed wire & stone walls • Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos • Jews will struggle to keep traditions Hitler’s Impatience

  4. The “Final Solution” • Hitler grows impatient • Plan- “final solution” becomes plan for genocide- mass killing of entire people • Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan race • Killings begin • Hitler’s SS will hunt down Jews • Shot prisoners in pits • Jews not reached by killing squads went to concentration camps • Final Stage • Extermination camps built with gas chambers • Auschwitz- largest of the camps • The Survivors • 11 million will die (6 million Jews)

  5. Identity Card activity • Take a few minutes to read the identity card you were given. • Think about that person’s journey through the war. • How would you respond in their situation?

  6. Irena Sendler • As a young non-jewish woman in Poland she joined a force of women working in the Warsaw Ghetto. • She would deliver food, medicine and other necessities on a daily basis to the prisoners in the ghetto. • While there she would convince Jewish parents to send their children with her.

  7. She would keep careful records of their names as well as the parents. • She would then work to get them temporary identities and arrange for them to live in non-Jewish people. • She would burry the information in jars in a neighbors back yard. • She worked to save over 2500 children before being arrested by the Nazis. • She escaped from prison and avoided the Nazis for the remainder of the War. • After the war she worked to reunite the children with any surviving relatives.

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