1. How many is 6 million?
The Holocaust

2. What was the Holocaust?
Holocaust - The systematic destruction of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe between the years
Other individuals and groups were persecuted during this period, but only the Jews were marked for complete and utter extinction.
Roma (gypsies)
Soviets
Poles and Slavs
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Nazi political opponents

3. What is Genocide?
Genocide: acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
The Holocaust is not the only genocide in history. In fact, genocide still happens today!
Soviet Ukraine
Cambodia
Rwanda
Armenians
Yugoslavia
Darfur

4. What factors led to the Holocaust?
Totalitarianism and extreme nationalism
Anti-Semitism
Extreme prejudice and hatred towards Jews
Belief in Aryan supremacy, or a “master race”
Nazis believed that Germans represented a superior form of humanity
The “master race” is believed to be made of non-Jewish Caucasians typically with blonde hair and blue eyes, called the Aryan race

5. What factors led to the Holocaust?
Nazis blamed the problems of the world on the Jews
As a way to incite anti-Semitism, pamphlets like this one were spread throughout Europe and America alleging the Jewish elders were plotting against Western society.

6. How were Jews discriminated against?
Boycott of Jewish stores
Threats
Segregation
Couldn’t work for the
government
Couldn’t go to public events
Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps and death camps

7. Kristallnacht “Night of Broken Glass”
November 9, 1938: Nazi organized violence against Jews. They were beat and their homes and businesses destroyed.
After this, Jewish people were fined by the government and forced into all Jewish neighborhoods called ghettos.

8. Inside of a synagogue in Nuremburg, Germany after the destruction on Kristallnacht.

10. Segregation
Beginning in 1939, Jews were removed from their homes and forced to live in all Jewish neighborhoods called ghettos.
They were required to wear a star that identified them as Jewish.

11. Life in the Ghettos

12. The Final Solution
Moving Jews to Ghettos wasn’t enough for the Nazis. Soon after, they began to deport them to “work camps.”
It would soon be found that these were actually concentration and death camps.
“Arbeit macht frei”=
“Work makes one free”

13. Deportation Jews were transported by boxcar 100+ people in one car
Doors were bolted shut
No place to sit down
Often people were forced to pay for their transportation
No food or water given

14. Concentration and Death Camps
Major camps:
Auschwitz
Dachau

15. Conditions Overcrowding Little food Forced labor Medical experiments
Torture/interrogations
Gas chambers
Called baths or showers. Many victims had no idea they were going to their deaths.
Crematoriums
Prisoners were forced to work in the crematoriums, removing valuables from the victims before burning the bodies.

17. Liberation Survivors of the camps were liberated (freed) by the Allies
Began in 1944, after D-Day, and continued into 1945
The world was stunned.
In all, nearly 11 million people lost their lives.

19. Why? Because it still happens today!
Intolerance is not over. YOU can make it better, starting with your peers.
Watch what this Holocaust survivor has to say.
The Holocaust- a summary

20. Nazi tactics against Jews
Aryan supremacy: Nazi belief that Germans represented a superior form of humanity. Usually blonde haired and blue eyed.
Anti-Semitism: Extreme prejudice and hatred towards Jews.
Holocaust: the systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews.
**The Holocaust ended with the liberation by Allied forces of Jews and others who survived in concentration camps.
Threats
Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration and death camps
Nazi tactics against Jews
Boycott of Jewish stores
Segregation