What Hate Can Do The Holocaust C. A. Lawrence, 2001
Two Phases of Hatred Phase 1 1933-1939 A Common Enemy : Re-Education Citizenship Rights? Violence Escalates
A Common Enemy Hitler blames Jews for problems of Germany Loss of WWI German Economic Depression Jews identified as a “race” –not a religion A New Education Begins Save Germany from impurities Aryan Virtues
Purify German Culture By Burning Books
Synagogues were used as storage warehouses Synagogues were used as storage warehouses. Jews were no longer allowed to go to church
Violence Escalates With Systematic Invasions
The Night of Broken Glass The first organized night of Nazi violence Thousands arrested, including college professors, writers, doctors, etc. Why would they arrest these people first?
How Would You Feel? Synagogues burned all through Germany, Poland and other German Occupied countries
Thousands Arrested…
While Others Are Rounded Up…
And Some Are Left To Mourn.
Two Phases of Hatred Phase 2 (1939-1945) World War II Declared (England and France) Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps Gas Chamber Use Begins The Final Solution
Jews Are Gathered Into Ghettos
Ghettos Are Used to Segregate Jews Into Parts of the City
as medicine and clothing. All Jews would live here, sometimes with three or four families in one apartment Food was scarce as well as medicine and clothing.
Jews were used in forced labor factories to produce for the Nazis.
Once ghettos would get too full, Jews would be “deported” to other work camps.
Deportation to Various Concentration Camps
Most camps are run in the same order… Prisoners arrive by Cattle Car
Once they arrived, they would be separate men from the women and children
Or, they would be separated because they couldn’t work.
Prisoners were forced to undress and hand over personal belongings.
Unfortunately, even those who were killed were robbed of their belongings. Even wedding rings.
These belongings were stored for the Nazis to use.
Prisoners were then shaved (all camps) and tattooed (in most).
Prisoners were then led to shower rooms, which were either really showers or gas chambers made to look like showers.
Work Shall Make You Free
Resistance Movement
Resistance Didn’t Have to be Dramatic… Resistance didn’t only include hiding Jews or smuggling them to Sweden (like Denmark) Many snuck food into the ghettos Many mailed letters thrown from trains Blew up railroad tracks Underground newspapers and organizations
Liberation
6 Million Jews Were Murdered… But 3 Million Jews Survived.
For The Living And The Dead, We Must Bear Witness