1. Holocaust And other Genocides…

2. Why Target the Jews? History of Anti- Semitism WWI defeat=blame Jews Hitler’s belief in the master race Totalitarianism combined with nationalism

3. Background 1933 Boycott of Jewish businesses Book burning Jews prohibited from owning land Strip of citizenship

4. Nuremburg Laws Strip Jews of their citizenship Forbidden to marry Aryans Depriving rights as human beings

5. 1938 Jews register wealth, property, & business Identity cards for 15+ years Prohibited from trading Passports stamped with a “J”

6. Kristallnacht The Night of broken glass (Nov. 9, 1938) Herschel Grynszpan, shot and killed a member of the German Embassy staff beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes brutalized Jewish women and children http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/Sh04.htm

7. 1939 Nuremberg laws in all occupied territories Euthanasia of sick & disabled Isolation of Jews Eichmann takes over Jewish affairs Poland=yellow star

8. 1940 Auschwitz opens First deportation of German Jews Krakow & Warsaw ghettos sealed off France & Romania pass Nuremberg laws

9. 1941 Fuhrer ordered Final Solution to be carried out Beginning of general deportation of German Jews First test of Zyklon-B at Auschwitz http://www.aetherometry.com/images/AS1-06/auschwitz_gate.jpg

10. 1942 Mass killings at Auschwitz with Zyklon-B Mass deportations to Auschwitz Deportation of Warsaw Jews to Treblinka

11. Map of Camps

12. 1943 Number of Jews killed by SS totals 1 million Krakow & Warsaw ghettoes liquidated Treblinka & Chelmno cease exterminations Opening of 3 more crematoriums in Auschwitz

13. 1944 Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process at Auschwitz Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek Majdanek Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz & destruction of crematoriums

14. 1945 Nazis conduct death marches from camps Auschwitz is liberated-January

15. April 1945 Allies liberate Buchenwald & Dachau

16. Total Effort of Extermination Initial Jewish Population: 9,508,340 Percentage of Jews killed: 63% Total Killed: 5,962,129 Total Survivors:3,546,211 Source: History Place.com

17. Nuremberg Trials 22 SS go to trial 14 sentenced to death 4 executed 23 doctors & scientists go to trial 16 guilty; 7 hanged

18. Other Genocides Systematic & purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

19. Armenian Genocide, 1915 OE targeted entire Armenian population 1.5 million die 1915- 1923 April 24, 1915 began

20. Stalin’s Purge Peasants Government officials Military leaders Members of the elite 8 to 20 million dead

21. Pol Pot Killing Fields in Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Targets: educated, artists, technicians, govt officials, monks, minorities 1.5-3 million (7 mil)

22. Rwanda Hutu target Tutsi Minority Hutu Power believed the Tutsi intended to enslave the Hutu 800,000 to 1,071,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus 1994 only 100 days

23. Iraq Operation Anfal, Hussein’s extermination of the Kurds 1986 to1989 included the use of: – ground offensives, –aerial bombing, –mass deportation, –concentration camps, –firing squads, –chemical warfare estimate 100,000 to 200,000+ deaths more than 17,000 people "disappeared" during 1988

24. Former Yugoslavia Bosnian Serbs target Muslims & Croats 1992-1995 200,000 dead carried out on ethnic and religious grounds to create an ethnically pure Serbian state Slobodan Milosevic led genocide

25. Darfur the Janjaweed targeting the non-Baggara people of the region.Janjaweed Where? Sudan When? TODAY! 400,000+ deaths 90% of the villages of Darfur’s targeted ethnic groups have been destroyed. 97% of these killings have been against innocent civilians and executed by militia groups instructed by the government.

26. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. -George Santayana

27. What will you learn from the past?