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TeenzCollege Maastricht University. The Holocaust History and Memory January 28, 2014 : History Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) Prof. Georgi Verbeeck. The Holocaust in History and Memory. Holocaust or Shoah : 6.000.000 Jews killed by Nazi Germany (genocide)
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TeenzCollegeMaastricht University The Holocaust History and Memory January 28, 2014 : HistoryFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS)Prof. Georgi Verbeeck
The Holocaust in History and Memory • Holocaust or Shoah :6.000.000 Jews killed by Nazi Germany(genocide) • How was it possible? • After 1945 • Why keeping memories alive?
The “road to Auschwitz” :From ideology to industrial mass murder • 1. Ideology (Anti-Semitism) • 2. Discrimination and exclusion • 3. Deportation to the ghetto’s • 4. “Euthanasia” program • 5. War on the Eastern front • 6. Industrial mass murder
2. Discrimination and exclusion 1 and 7 april, 1933 :Boycott and “Aryan paragraph”
2. Discrimination and exclusion 15 September 1935 :Racial laws
2. Discrimination and exclusion 9 November 1938 :“Reichskristallnacht”
3. Deportation to the ghetto’s 1 September 1939 : German invasion of Poland
5. Eastern front 22 June 1941 : War against the Soviet Union
6. Industrial mass murder Chełmno - Bełżec –Sobibór -Treblinka
6. Industrial mass murder Auschwitz
27 January 1945 Liberation of Auschwitz
Remembrance “The memory of Europe’s dead Jews has become the verydefinitionandguaranteeof the continent’srestoredhumanity.” (Tony Judt, The House of the Living Dead, in : Postwar, 2006)