1. Friday March 7, 2014 Take your seat Begin Warm-Up Warm-Up Have you ever been discriminated against because of the color of your skin, your religion, the fact that you are a jock or for any other reason? Explain what happened. How did you feel? How did you react? 1 paragraph, s-u-t-w style, color code please

2. Today’s Agenda Warm-Up Interactive Notes – 14-2 Part 2 “Holocaust” Homework –Take the weekend off

3. Chapter 14, Section 2 The Holocaust

4. Today’s Standard 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II. 4.Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians. What was the Holocaust and what responsibility does the world have to prevent things like it in the future? Essential Question

5. “They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.” -Martin Niemoller

6. Setting the Stage Holocaust = Mass slaughter of European Jews Germans call themselves Aryans they believe they’re Master Race The Nuremberg Laws (1935) –Citizenship revoked; deprived of jobs & property; Star of David Kristallnacht – Nov. 9, 1938 –“Night of Broken Glass” – first organized and gov’t sanctioned violence against Jews.

7. Flight & Isolation Starving children in Warsaw ghetto Flood of Jewish refugees Nations close doors Euro. Jews isolated in “ghettos” Ghettos were used to keep Jews separated from the rest of the population. –Sealed w/ barbed wire & stone walls –Goal: starve or die from disease

8. Heinrich Himmler, Head of SS

9. Hitler’s “Final Solution” The Nazi plan to engage in a Genocide against the Jewish population –Genocide = systematic killing of an entire people –Targeted Jews, gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, & incurably ill –Mass executions, concentration camps, & death camps

10. Ukrainian Jew about to be murdered A member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew, who is forced to kneel before a mass grave full of other victims. Einsatzgruppe

11. A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)

12. Jews Executed in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine

13. A group of children just before they were executed by an Einsatzkommando (Soviet Union, wartime. Central State Archives of Film, Photo and Phonographic Documents of the Latvian SSR, USHMM Photo).EinsatzkommandoUSHMM Group of Children just before their Execution, USSR

16. Mass Exterminations Final Stage = 1942 (Final Solution) 6 death camps in Poland Gas chambers – 6,000 deaths a day –Poisoned with cyanide gas Ovens used to burn bodies Bodies at Buchenwald Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald camp

17. Timeline for Nazi Extermination Camps

18. Auschwitz

19. Corpses in Belsen

20. Mass Grave in Bergen-Belsen

21. Dachau Freezing Experiments

22. Jewish children, victims of medical experiments in Auschwitz

23. The Holocaust and Resistance Some Jewish resistance and help from non-Jewish people –Dietrich Bonhoeffer – famous Christian leader, part of Nazi resistance movement – executed for attempted to assassinate Hitler –Oscar Schindler – businessman who saved over 1,000 Jews 90% of Jews in Poland & Germany killed during Holocaust –6 Million Jews were murdered in Holocaust 6 Million additional people murdered in death and concentration camps as well. –Pols, homosexual, Russians, etc… Dietrich Bonhoeffer Oscar Schindler

25. Little Polish Boy

27. Liberated Concentration Camp Survivors – From Mauthausen camp May 5, 1945

28. “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever…Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust…Never.” Elie Wiesel from Night Quick-Write What do you think this quote means? How does it reflect the horrors of the Holocaust?