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The Promise of Never Again: The Holocaust

The Promise of Never Again: The Holocaust. World History Spring 2007. Based on your knowledge of the Holocaust, what do you think this quote means? Respond in a minimum of 1 paragraph on your own paper. "The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.". --Ian Kershaw.

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The Promise of Never Again: The Holocaust

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  1. The Promise of Never Again: The Holocaust World History Spring 2007

  2. Based on your knowledge of the Holocaust, what do you think this quote means? Respond in a minimum of 1 paragraph on your own paper "The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference." --Ian Kershaw

  3. Nazi Power(1933-1939) • Hitler rises to power in Germany • He promotes ideas of German nationalism & racial hatred of the Jewish people

  4. Nazi Propaganda "The year is over. The struggle goes on!"

  5. KRISTALLNACHT“Night of Broken Glass” • In wave of German anger, Jewish businesses and homes are destroyed in 1938. • Major step in Nazi policy of Jewish persecution

  6. This sign lets Jewish people know what side of the street they can walk on.

  7. Ghettos (1939-1941) • Segregated & overcrowded areas that Jewish people were herded into. • Became transition areas before being sent to death/work camps • Dwellers were given ration cards (300 calories/day) • Ghettos were filthy with poor sanitation

  8. Approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw ghetto in early 1941. At this time, the ghetto contained about 840 acres, of which 760 acres were habitable. About 37% of the Greater Warsaw population was squeezed into 4.6% of the area of the city.Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 95.

  9. Smuggling food

  10. Forced Labor

  11. Homeless Children

  12. Jewish Resistance • Despite difficult conditions, many Jews held on • Examples • Smuggled food & other needed items • Maintained traditions • Secret schools • Scholars kept records

  13. The Final Solution • Hitler impatient (waiting for Jews to die of starvation too slow) • FINAL SOLUTION: a program of GENOCIDE—systemic killing of an entire people • To preserve “Aryan” purity, he targeted Jews, Gypsies, Poles & Russians. • In addition, others were targeted the insane, the disabled, incurably ill & homosexuals

  14. SHOOTING PROVES TOO SLOW, COSTLY AND EMOTIONALLY DRAINING ON THE SOLDIERS. THE ANSWER CONCENTRATION CAMPS

  15. The Concentration Camps (1941-1942) • The camps were labor camps, death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. • The living conditions of all camps were brutal. • Prisoners worked 7 days a week with very little food & poor conditions

  16. The Final Stage: Mass Extermination • In 1942, Nazi death camps built equipped with gas chambers (6000/day) and crematoriums • SIX MILLION JEWISH PEOPLE DIED IN THE DEATH CAMPS

  17. “Never Again” by Remedy • Listen to the song and follow along with the lyrics on the page in front of you • Underline or circle words or phrases you hear that relate to the Holocaust http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/spring_2005/Never_Again.mp3

  18. HOLOCAUST ACROSTIC POEM • Create an acrostic poem using the letters in the word HOLOCAUST • Each line must have at least 3 words. HOLOCAUST

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