Holocaust: Remembering the 11 Million Lives Lost

1. The Holocaust • Nazis (Hitler) killed a total of 11 million people • 6 million Jews were killed

2. THE ROUND UP • WHO? • JEWS • GYPSIES • AFRO-EUROPEANS • JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES • HOMOSEXUALS • DISABLED • POLES • ELDERLY • CHILDREN

3. KRISTALLNACHT Germans vandalized Jewish homes, burned over 1000 synagogues, wrecked businesses then charged that the Jews had damaged the property and would be assessed for the damages. After the nights of November 9-10, 1938, the killing of the Jews was systematically begun.

5. Sites of Kristallnacht attacks

6. WARSAW GHETTO Warsaw ghetto, January 1942. Pedestrian bridge over Chlodna Street connecting the "big ghetto" to the north with the "little ghetto" south of Chlodna Street. The bridge was construct to allow the tram to pass uninterrupted through the ghetto.

7. STUDENT HUMILIATION Jews could represent no more than 1.5 % of the population of the public schools. These students are being humiliated. The writing on the board says “Jews are the enemy. Beware of the Jews.”

8. Subsequent to the invasion of Poland, Poland was split • Hitler turned his attention toward western Europe • Hitler advanced into Sudetenland after Rhineland and Austria • Non aggression pact was agreed upon by Stalin and Hitler • 5 million Poles lost their lives in the Holocaust • Death camps were established in Poland and the majority of the deaths took place here Hitler’s Invasion of Poland

9. Hitler Concentration Camps Late in 1941, the Germans built the six death camps that are in bold. They each had gas chambers capable of killing 6000 per day. Auschwitz being the most active.

10. Work Will Set You Free Over 50% of the registered prisoners died as a result of starvation, labor that exceeded their physical capacity, the terror that raged in the camp, executions, the inhumane living conditions, disease and epidemics, punishment, torture and criminal medical experiments. AUSCHWITZ Between 1.5 and 3.5 million executed.

11. Daniel by Laura Crist And the child held her hand A child tiny for almost eight, Deep blue eyes that dominated his face, When he explained new events to her, that funny doggy, that pretty rock, And the freckles on his cheek, No one saw a sunrise more perfect, to her, She so vividly hears that little heartbeat, that was hers always hers, and the laughter, that raspy little laugh, when he caught her in a conundrum. All this, But this is merely the surface, As she watches her little God sheared, and stripped, For the gas chamber.

12. AUSCHWITZ GAS Chamber in Auschwitz

13. The freezing experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best resuscitate the frozen victim. The two main methods used to freeze the victim were to put the person in a icy vat of water or to put the victim outside naked in sub-zero temperatures.

16. MASSIVE EXECUTION

17. Auschwitz Cloth made from human hair. Seven tons of human hair was found at Auschwitz.

18. PUNISHMENT

19. Memorials Dachau monument Mittelbau Memorial

20. LOSSES OF HOLOCAUST11 MILLION DEAD • 6 MILLION JEWS • EUROPEAN BLACKS • POLISH (5 MILLION Jewish and non-Jewish) • HOMOSEXUALS • JEHOVAH’S WITNESS • ELDERLY and DISABLED • GYPSIES