1. Section 3-The Holocaust

2. The Holocaust Targets: Mainly targeted European Jews
Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews
Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s failures
They became an easy scape goat
1935-Nuremberg Laws: Jews stripped of citizenship, property, forced to wear the star of David

4. The Holocaust Kristallnacht-Night of broken glass
Took place from the evening of November 9th to the morning of the 10th, 1938
Nazis attacked Jewish homes and businesses killing roughly 100 people and arresting 30,000 others
The Nazi’s blamed the Jews for the destruction

8. Nazi Targets
During the Holocaust the Nazi’s targeted the Jews, European Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, mentally or physically challenged, homosexuals and anyone physically disabled
Final Solution- A form of genocide that systematically killing of an entire population

10. Forced Relocation
Jews were forced into ghettos, segregated areas in Polish cities
The Warsaw ghetto wad meant for 5,000 but had to cope with 50,000 residents
Some Jews form resistance movements; others simply try and maintain their culture

11. Concentration Camps-
Many Jews taken to concentration camps, or labor camps
Jewish families often separated
Camps originally prisons; given to SS to warehouse “undesirables”
Prisoners crammed into wooden barracks, given little food
Work dawn to dusk, 7 days per week
Those too weak to work are killed
Usually the elderly first then the women and children

12. Concentration Camps-
Concentration Camps: They operated both as labor and death camps
1942: Mass exterminations began
Bullets were too expensive and starvation took too long so the Nazi’s needed a faster way to reduce their number of captives
Chelmo-1st of the concentration camps to be built
Auschwitz- Largest
They also preformed medical experiments there

13. Mass Exterminations-
Gas Chambers could kill 2,000 people at a time with some camps killing up to12,000 people a day
On arrival, SS doctors separate those who can work
Those who can’t work immediately killed in gas chamber
At first bodies buried in pits; later cremated to cover up evidence
Some are shot, hanged, poisoned, or die from experiments

20. Survivors- By 1945 nearly 6 million Jews had died in the camps
Some escape, many with help from ordinary people
Some survive concentration camps
For all of the survivors their lives were forever changed by experience