THE HOLOCAUST Roots of the Holocaust
CONCENTRATION CAMPS Prison/work camps Jews were taken to camps on overcrowded “Cattle Cars” Dehumanizing, deliberately brutal Determined to work people to death; many died from starvation and disease
“Work Makes You Free”
THE FINAL SOLUTION Decision that all Jews were to be killed Continued even after it became clear the Nazis were losing the war Death camps – gas chambers – furnaces Death marches – prisoners marched to interior death camps as Nazis lost territory Holocaust – murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million others
Gas chambers
Crematoriums / furnaces
Death Marches