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Explore the two phases of hatred during the Holocaust, from 1933-1939 and 1939-1945. Learn about the re-education efforts, violence escalation, ghettos, forced labor camps, gas chamber use, and the resilience of the Jewish resistance movement. Witness the horrors that led to the murder of 6 million Jews and the survival of 3 million.
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What Hate Can Do The Holocaust C. A. Lawrence, 2001
Two Phases of Hatred • Phase 1 1933-1939 • A Common Enemy : Re-Education • Citizenship Rights? • Violence Escalates
A Common Enemy • Hitler blames Jews for problems of Germany • Loss of WWI • German Economic Depression • Jews identified as a “race” –not a religion • A New Education Begins • Save Germany from impurities • Aryan Virtues
Synagogues were used as storage warehouses. Jews were no longer allowed to go to church
Violence Escalates With Systematic Invasions
The Night of Broken Glass The first organized night of Nazi violence Thousands arrested, including college professors, writers, doctors, etc. Why would they arrest these people first?
How Would You Feel? Synagogues burned all through Germany, Poland and other German Occupied countries
Two Phases of Hatred • Phase 2 (1939-1945) • World War II Declared (England and France) • Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps • Gas Chamber Use Begins • The Final Solution
Jews Are Gathered Into Ghettos
All Jews would live here, sometimes with three or four families in one apartment Food was scarce as well as medicine and clothing.
Jews were used in forced labor factories to produce for the Nazis.
Once ghettos would get too full, Jews would be “deported” to other work camps.
Most camps are run in the same order… Prisoners arrive by Cattle Car
Once they arrived, they would be separate men from the women and children
Prisoners were forced to undress and hand over personal belongings.
Unfortunately, even those who were killed were robbed of their belongings. Even wedding rings.
Prisoners were then shaved (all camps) and tattooed (in most).
Prisoners were then led to shower rooms, which were either really showers or gas chambers made to look like showers.
Resistance Didn’t Have to be Dramatic… • Resistance didn’t only include hiding Jews or smuggling them to Sweden (like Denmark) • Many snuck food into the ghettos • Many mailed letters thrown from trains • Blew up railroad tracks • Underground newspapers and organizations
6 Million Jews Were Murdered…But 3 Million Jews Survived.
For The Living And The Dead, We Must Bear Witness