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THE HOLOCAUST

Explore the perpetrators, victims, and events of the Holocaust from 1941-1945, including the atrocities committed by Hitler, Eichmann, Himmler, and the Nazis. Learn about the various targeted groups, methods of extermination, and the eventual liberation of the camps by Soviet and U.S. troops. The estimated death toll, including Jews, Soviet POWs, Poles, Romani people, and others, sheds light on this dark chapter in history.

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THE HOLOCAUST

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  1. THE HOLOCAUST • 1941-1945 • Mackenzie Marro and Rachel Jablonowski

  2. WHO WERE THE PERPETRATORS? • The main perpetrator was Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Himmler and the whole Nazi party

  3. WHO WERE THE VICTIMS? • Slavs in eastern Europe • Soviet POWs • Poles - Serbs • Jehovah's witnesses • Jewish people • Romani people (gypsies) • Homosexuals • People with disabilities

  4. CHILD PRISONERS IN AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP

  5. BACKGROUND INFO • Jews were mainly targeted, because Hitler wanted to create an Aryan race. • Aryan race- pure blooded, blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germanic people. • He targeted Jews and other "Undesirables", because of his dream of having a German empire purified of other ethnic groups. • The planned extermination was called the "Final Solution"; the S.S. (elite part of German military) put in charge

  6. WHAT HAPPENED? • People were exterminated through; • Mass shootings • Gas exterminations • Starvation • Malnutrition • Beatings and torture, working to death • Cruel experiments

  7. WHAT CAUSED IT TO END? • Troops from the Soviet Union and the U.S. discovered the concentration and death camps, liberating all the prisoners still alive. • They also took many S.S. In charge of the camps, as well as German citizens from surrounding towns and forced them to bury the dead in the camps. • There were occasions in which Allied soldiers shot the S.S. Camp operators or allowed the prisoners to get their revenge.

  8. DEATHS • Estimated 11 million to 17 million people were killed but there could be many more unrecorded. • 5.9 million Jews • 2-3 million soviet POWs • 1.8-2 million native Poles • 0.2-1.5 million Romani people • 200,000-250,000 disabled people

  9. To the left is a mass grave at Bergen BelsenTo the right is the selection process at Birkenau (the sister camp of Auschwitz)

  10. The Entrance to Auschwitz translates to “ Work Makes You Free”

  11. SHOOTING OF JEWS AT IVANGORODBY EINSATZGRUPPEN (S.S. MOBILE KILLING UNITS)

  12. S.S. OFFICERS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP

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