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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. By: Kim Michal. Photo Credits: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ http://myfdw.com/. Hitler. “ Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews…until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.” -Adolf Hitler, 1922.

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust By: Kim Michal Photo Credits: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ http://myfdw.com/

  2. Hitler “Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews…until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.” -Adolf Hitler, 1922 http://www.shoaheducation.com/endlosung.html Photo Credit: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/A/adolfhitler.jpg

  3. What was The Holocaust? • the mass slaughter of European civilians, gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped, and especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II • Lasted from 1933-1945 http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/summary/whatframe.html Photo Credit: http://www.sunderlandclc.org.uk/UserFiles/File/Holocaust.jpg

  4. Anti-Semitism in Germany • Hitler blamed Jews for loss of WWI • The Aryan Race - “Pure Germans” superior • Incorrectly names Jews as a race

  5. Nuremberg Laws • Germany - 1935 • Defined who was a Jew • Laws passed to take rights away from only Jewish people and other minorities. • After months of new laws German officials allowed a deadly riot to take place called……

  6. Kristallnacht • 1938 - Germany • “Night of the Broken Glass” • Violent riot against Jews throughout Germany. Jewish businesses were destroyed and Jews were mugged in the streets.

  7. The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue

  8. Ghettos • Small run down areas of a city where Jews were moved to.

  9. Concentration Camps • Prisoners were forced to go into concentration camps • Also called labor camps • Some camps were called death camps • Controlled by the Nazi’s http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133b/07Projects/pix/DworkVanPeltBookpicture.jpg http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133b/07Projects/pix/DworkVanPeltBookpicture.jpg http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html

  10. Auschwitz • Auschwitz was the largest camp during the Holocaust (1.5 million people killed here) • Prisoners were forced to give up all belongings http://www.auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm

  11. Close your eyes and imagine…

  12. Ways of Genocide • Gas chambers • Cremation • Starvation • Malnutrition • Torture • Death Marches http://www.scrapbookpages.com/mauthausen/Tour/PhotoTour03.html http://www.uiowa.edu/policult/assets/postWWII_holocaust/crematorium.jpg http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143

  13. The Victims… http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/holocaust/graphics/holocaust5.jpg http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/imgs/Ebensee%20concentration%20camp%20prisoners%201945.jpg

  14. http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-3/holocaust-victims-in-bunks.jpghttp://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-3/holocaust-victims-in-bunks.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Holocaust123.JPG

  15. http://afeatheradrift.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/holocaust.jpghttp://afeatheradrift.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/holocaust.jpg http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2009/08/18/holocaust_mass_grave_belsen_kuiks_19886.jpg

  16. Camp Doctors • Nazi doctors tortured men, women, and children at death camps • Performed experiments on victims • Victims were: • put into pressure chambers • tested with drugs • frozen to death • Experimental surgeries without anesthesia • Injections of lethal germs

  17. Josef Mengele • Known as Angel of Death • Performed experiments on twins in Auschwitz: • Carried out twin to twin transfusions • Stitched twins together • Organ and limb removal http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/ http://www.gesch.med.uni-erlangen.de/gewissen/ausstell/zwill/_bild/23_25.jpg http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/59/5961.jpg

  18. Liberation of the Camps • Liberation began in 1944 • Soviets liberated Auschwitz in 1945 • “Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied” http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005131 http://scrapbookpages.com/poland/Auschwitz/OldPhotos/AuschwitzLiberation.jpg

  19. The Numbers • 11 million prisoners were murdered • 6 million victims were Jews • Number of European Jews who survived: 3,546,211 • Percentages: • Polish Jews killed: 91% • German Jews killed: 36% • Jews killed in Europe during war: 63% http://www.jewishmag.co.il/109mag/holocaustnumbers/holocaustnumbers.htm www.etni.org.il/holocaust/holocaust_numbers.doc

  20. Words from Survivors… • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ER1sRYDAYY&feature=channel • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdqDuA9Vp8

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