1. Genocide of Jewish people and others
WW2 #6: The Holocaust
Genocide of Jewish people and others

2. Holocaust Victim What was your victim’s family and early life like?
How did things change for him/her in the 1930s?
How did things change for him in the 1940s?
How does their story end?

3. “Never again” 6 million Jews are murdered
5 million others are murdered: Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled, communists, resisters
“Never again”

5. What did US do?
1938: Global meeting on what to do with refugees / 5 countries accepted some
US had quotas –

6. 1939, 83% of Americans opposed accepting more refugees
Why did US oppose refugees?
Economic reasons – Great D
Anti-Semitism
State Dept made it difficult for Jewish ppl to immigrate
Henry Ford, Father Coughlin
US does accept 200,000
Albert Einstein
Denies Anne Frank’s family

7. St. Louis
1939: 900+ Jewish ppl flee Europe on a boat, come to Cuba, denied, go to US, denied
Accepted by W. Eur – 2/3 die

8. What did US know?

9. New York Times Nov. 25, 1942
Says 2 million Jews had already died

10. What can be done? Accept Jewish kids? Expand immigration?
Bomb railways leading to concentration camps?
1944: War Refugee Board
“Rescue and relief” of Jewish ppl & others

11. When one concentration camp was liberated, Allies found 800,000 pairs of shoes

13. Syrian Refugees Today

14. Did the US do enough?