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Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune.

September 22, 2014 Do Now: What is a catastrophe? List tWo examples of a catastrophe. Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune. Genocide – Any attempt to destroy members of a group in whole or in part. This includes killing members of a group.

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Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune.

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  1. September 22, 2014 Do Now: What is a catastrophe? List tWo examples of a catastrophe.

  2. Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune.

  3. Genocide – Any attempt to destroy members of a group in whole or in part. • This includes killing members of a group. • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

  4. Genocide Continued • The word Genocide didn’t exist before the Holocaust. It was invented as away of explaining what happened. • The Genocide that occurred during the Holocaust is one of the reasons for the formation of the United Nations.

  5. Holocaust – the systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany Between 1933-1945. • The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of approximately 11 million people. • Approximately 6 million of those deaths were Jews. • The Holocaust is largely studied as a Jewish struggle because although Jews weren’t the only targets, every Jew was a potential target. • 2/3rds of European Jews were killed.

  6. Holocaust Deaths By the Numbers • Hundreds of thousands of Sinta-Roma (Gypsies). • 250,000 Physically or mentally handicapped. • More than 3 million Soviet Prisoners. • About 2 million Poles. • Roughly A million Slavs that were targeted for slave labor. • Thousands of Homosexuals, Communists, Socialists, Trade Unionists, and Jehovah’s Witnessess

  7. The Holocaust is the Most Well-Documented Genocide In History Sources of Information: • Newspapers • Diaries • Photographs • Documentaries • Personal accounts from survivors and perpetrators • Artifacts

  8. In spite of all the evidence some deny the Holocaust ever happened.

  9. Reasons We Study the Holocaust • 1. The number of deaths. • 2. It helped inspire the creation of the UN. • 3. Because it is so well-documented, studying the Holocaust and its causes can help to recognize and prevent future genocides. • 4. It’s a part of history • 5. Some still try and deny that it ever happened.

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