1. Intro to Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Holocaust Overview
Intro to
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

2. 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
The first anti-Jewish laws are established.
The Franks decide that the family must move to the Netherlands.
First concentration camp opened.
Jewish businesses boycotted.
“Undesirables” sent to camps.

3. 1934-1935 Jewish persecution gets stronger.
Nuremberg Laws designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:
Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens.
Jews cannot marry non-Jews.
Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.

4. 1938 Austrian Jews persecuted Munich synagogue destroyed
Jewish passports stamped with 'J'
9-10 November 1938: Kristallnacht,
“Night of Broken Glass” (see LINK HERE and Below)
100 Jews were murdered; 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps; Hundreds of synagogues burned; and the windows of Jewish shops, schools, and homes all over Germany and Austria smashed.
Jews fined one billion marks for the damage.
Jewish children expelled from schools.

5. 1939-1940 Austrian and Czech Jews deported to Poland.
Yellow Star introduced.
European Jews persecuted and many were sent to concentration camps.
Auschwitz concentration camp opened .
The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off.
There were around 400,000 Jewish people inside .

6.
After the German invasion of Russia, the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads made up of German and Russian volunteers/soldiers) began rounding up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews are murdered in two days near Kiev, alone.
Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement “Final Solution.” (for more on the “Final Solution,” see LINK and below).
First “Death Camp” was opened at Chelmno.
Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Summer 1942 Jews from all over Europe were sent to “Death Camps.”
Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor camp. The family goes into hiding the next day.

7. Arrival at Camp Overfilled train to camp
Gold teeth removed from prisoners’ mouths
Crowds entering camp for the first time

8. Camp Life Children used in medical experiments
Ovens used to burn bodies (alive and dead)
Barracks

9. Mass Grave

10. Camp Map: You Are Here

11. Additional Online Sources
BBC (British Broadcast Company) Interactive Map of Europe and Holocaust
Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass--History.com
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum entry--Final Solution
A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz
Full Documentary: Dear Kitty
Anne Frank.org--The Fate of the Women in the Secret Annex