1. THE HOLOCAUST
Roots of the Holocaust

2. 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

5. “Work Makes You Free”

14. 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

15. Gas chambers

17. Crematoriums / furnaces

20. Death
Marches