Holocaust

Aviva Berkowitz

Alex Scott

James Statts

Matt Lark

Key Points

Timeline of events Victims U.S. Perspective Controversy: What should U.S. have

done?

Holocaust: 1933 Nazi’s take over Germany Hitler is chancellor First concentration camp Kids banned from school Some Jews prohibited from working Trade unions close Nazi burn books b/c they disagree

with ideas

Holocaust: 1934 Hitler has full control of Germany

Holocaust: 1935•Jewish basic rights are gone•Nazi’s get stricter about who are “racially inferior”

Holocaust: 1936•Nazis target Jewish businesses•Olympic games- execution is put on ‘hold’

Holocaust: 1938

German troops annex Austria Kristallnacht- “Night of broken glass”,

synagogues burned Jewish kids expelled from school in

Germany and Austria Nazis take full control of Jewish

businesses

Holocaust: 1939 Germany takes over Czech and

invades Poland WWII begins (France and Britain

invade Germany) Mentally and physically disabled

murdered Jews are required to wear armbands

w/ yellow stars

Holocaust: 1940 Jews are forced into ghettos Nazis mass murder Jews in Poland Germany conquers western Europe

Holocaust: 1941•Germany attacks Soviet Union•Death Camps in Poland are created (Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau) •Nazis “Final Solution”- kill all Jews in Europe

Holocaust: 1942 US, Britain, and Soviet Union are aware of

Germany 20-25% Jews in Concentration Camps died

Holocaust: 1943•80-85% Jews in Concentration Camps died

Holocaust: 1944•Hitler takes over Hungary •Deports Jews to Auschwitz

Holocaust: 1945 Hitler defeated in WWII Holocaust is over Death Camps emptied- survivors go

to “Displaced Person Camps”

Holocaust: 1946•Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes and •crimes against humanity

Holocaust: 1947•UN establishes a Jewish homeland which becomes the State of Israel in 1948