1. The Holocaust

2. Anti-Semitism Hostility towards or prejudice against Jews or Judaism

3. Anti-Semitism in Germany From the time he was a boy, Hitler blamed Jews for German losses after WWI and the economic depression that spread thereafter

4. “The Jewish Question” NAZIS, led by Hitler, believed that something needed to be done to remove Jews from German lands

5. Boycott of Jewish Stores

6. “Retirement” Government dismissed all workers NOT of Aryan descent Jewish teachers, lawyers, and performers were not allowed to work Jewish admissions to universities cancelled

7. Dachau The first concentration camp was opened in Germany in 1933

8. Book Burnings

9. Nuremburg Laws Section 1 Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Section 2 extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood is forbidden Section 3 Jews will not be permitted to employ female citizens under the age of 45, of German or kindred blood, as domestic workers. Section 4 Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colours On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colours.

11. Krystallnacht – Nov 9 th, 1938 “Night of Broken Glass” Jewish homes and stores were ransacked in a thousand German towns and cities

12. The Warsaw Ghetto - 1940

15. The “Judenrat”

16. By 1939, six large concentration camps existed in Poland

19. By 1941, they started operating as “death camps”

20. 1942 – “Wannsee Conference” “The Final Solution”

21. Einsatzgruppen

22. Adolf Eichmann Special force of the SS created to deal with the “undesirables” of occupied countries Eichmann headed a special section that dealt strictly with Jews

23. Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

25. 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

27. T-4 Euthanasia Program

29. Zyklon-B Gas Chambers Auschwitz

31. Trains transported Jews to camps

38. Identifying the prisoners Green = professional criminal Pink = homosexual Brown = gypsy Violet = Jehovah’s Witness Black = “a-social” (alcoholic or prostitute)

39. Identifying the prisoners Jews were given 2 black and yellow triangles Together they formed the 6-pointed Star of David

40. NAZI leaders Adolf Hitler

41. NAZI leaders Joseph Goebbels

42. NAZI leaders Hermann Goring

43. NAZI leaders Heinrich Himmler

44. NAZI leaders Rudolf Hoss

45. NAZI leaders Joseph Mengele

46. Liberation - 1945

48. Nuremburg Trials – 1945 - 49

50. Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice

51. Nicoletta Braschi as Dora

52. Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua