On the piece of paper given to you…Please write down what you know about the Holocaust

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Definition: A religious and ethnic group of people who trace their ancestry to Biblical Hebrews

Most Jews lived in the Middle East and Europe

There were about 9 million Jews in Europe in the late 1930s

By the end of WWII, there were about 3 million Jews in Europe

Jewish

Definition: Hatred of Jewish people

In the late 1930s, large groups of Europeans and Americans were anti-Semitic

People were anti-Semitic because they were blamed for much of what was wrong with society

This is similar to racism experienced by African American in the US

Anti-Semitism

Definition: The mass murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis starting in the late 1930s and ending in 1945

Nazis were the main force behind the Holocaust and there were many different types of victims, although the majority of victims were Jewish

Holocaust

Definition: the deliberate killing of large groups of people

Why is the Holocaust considered genocide?

genocide

Definition: a place where large numbers of persecuted people are imprisoned, typically under harsh conditions

The Nazi party placed concentration camps all over Europe, but mainly in Germany, Poland, and Austria

Concentration camps were where the majority of Jews and other minorities were sent in the 1940s

Concentration camps

Definition: This was the symbol used by the Nazis to identify Jews at the beginning of the Holocaust

Those who wore the star were immediately identifiable and easily rounded up during raids and arrests

Yellow Star

Definition: the Jewish quarter or part of the city

In many cities, once Jews were forced to wear the yellow star, they were forced to live inside the ghettos and, with few exceptions, they were not allowed to leave

ghettos

Unethical experiments were performed on humans during the Holocaust, especially in concentration camps

The most famous of these experiments were done by Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor in Auschwitz

Medical experimentation

Definition: The Nazi policy of exterminating Jews

This occurred and was in effect from 1941-1945

The Final Solution

Definition: a concentration camp where large numbers of the prisoners are put to death, worked to death, or die from mistreatment

Part of the Final SolutionUnlike concentration camps, the goal of

extermination camps, or death camps, was to kill those who were imprisoned

11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. 6 million of those people were Jews.

Extermination camps

Definition: An airtight room filled with poisonous gas meant for execution

These chambers were used by the Nazis as part of the Final Solution

Gas chambers

Please use the rest of class to describe the Holocaust.

You must FILL THE LINES on your paper and describe it with as many details from today’s class as possible.

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Describe the Holocaust