The Holocaust All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

What do you know about the Holocaust? What was it? When was it? What happened?

Words to know… Holocaust- is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire” Genocide-the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group Final Solution - euphemism to describe Nazi plan to annihilate the Jewish people Anti-Semitism- hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

At the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt (on left) is President of the United States.

Winston Churchill is the Prime Minister of England.

FDR and Churchill are shown here with the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.

Hideki Tojo was prime minister of Japan from 1941-1944.

Adolf Hitler was the Dictator ruling Germany.

Heinrich Himmler: was the head of the SS and the Nazi secret police.

Hitler and the Nazi party blamed Jews for the problems in Germany and thought they were inferior.

Jewish people were required to identify themselves by wearing yellow stars on their jackets.

A Jewish couple in the Budapest ghetto wear yellow stars on their jackets.

Children had to follow this rule as well.

Some were forced to live in ghettos to keep Jews separate from the rest of the population. Conditions were cramped and food and medicine were limited.

Jewish passports had to be marked with a large J.

Nazis destroyed Jewish owned businesses on "the night of broken glass."

On the Night of Broken Glass, November 9, 1938, synagogues were burned, 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 Jews were arrested.

Anne Frank was one of many Jews who went into hiding to avoid Nazi capture.

Anne’s family, her parents and older sister Margot, were living in Amsterdam in 1942. They began hiding in her father’s office building.

This bookshelf hid the secret section where the Franks and others lived. Anne Frank's Secret Annex

Anne’s story does not have a happy ending.

her time in hiding. It was discovered after her family She kept a diary during her time in hiding. It was discovered after her family was taken. It is studied by students all over the world.

This is the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where 6,000 people were put to death each day by the Nazis.

An estimated 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 people were killed at the camp. The roof holds a line of chimneys in buildings where bodies were burned. .

This photo shows the interior of one of the dormitory houses at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland

People were kept in very cramped and unsanitary spaces.

These are survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in their barracks after liberation by the Allies.

This gas chamber was the largest room at Auschwitz.

The ovens at Auschwitz cremated the bodies of those who died in the camp.

A Holocaust survivor shows the prisoner number tattooed on her arm at a concentration camp.

Two World War II prisoners of war stare through a barbed wire fence.

The gas chamber at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the walls were stained blue by Zyklon B.

Wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold.

Concentration camp prisoners could be given as little as 200 calories a day and forced to perform hard labor.

Women and children were executed in cold blood.

This is a ravine filled with the bodies of murdered women and children.

Survivors of one of the largest Nazi concentration camps in Austria.

Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.

More than 6 million Jews were killed, They lost two-thirds of their total European population.

The Holocaust and its victims must never be forgotten.

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