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The HolocaustTeacher: Miss Bunnell
Definition1)Holocaust: Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
2)Holocaust: The systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
-United State Holocaust Museum
The Big Numbers It is estimated that _____________ people were killed during the Holocaust.
o Approx. how many were Jews? ____________________
o Approx. how many were children? __________________
The Nazis alone killed roughly __________ of all the Jews living in Europe.
The Road to the Holocaust Hitler blamed the Jews for _______________________________________.
The Nazi party failed to take over Germany, and Hitler was sent to prison for treason.
o Wrote _________________, which means _____________________.
Mein Kampf details his __________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Mein Kampfo ________________________________________________
o ________________________________________________
Saw them as ________________________________________
People to get rid of in order to make a better, stronger
Germany.
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o Demands more living space for the German people.
1933: ________________________________________________________
1934: Anointed himself as ______________ and the supreme ruler.
1933-1939: The Nazi party under Hitler’s leadership will begin to persecute
anyone who ___________________________________________________
A quick reminder of how this all plays into World War II…
Policy of Appeasement, 1938
o Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, failed to keep Hitler
& Nazi Germany in check during the 1930s.
o The policy was a way of securing peace in Europe,_______________
_________________________________________. Hitler promised
to not invade Poland because he was given the land he had demanded.
September 1, 1939
o ____________________________________
o This officially begins ____________________________
Beginning of Persecution
People that the Nazi’s targeted: ____________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
1939: Euthanasia Program
o Nazis chose _____________ people that had been institutionalized for
________________________________________________________
o They were gassed to death because they were not ________________
o Blames the Weimar Republic for being weak and accepting the terms of
the _________________________________.
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__________________ to be part of the German population.
o Hitler put an official end to the program in 1941 due to religious protest but the killings continued in secrecy.
April 1, 1933: The Nazis instigated their first action against German Jews by announcing a _________________________________________________.
September 15, 1935: Laws that excluded Jews from public life.o ______________________________________
o Took away Germany citizenship from Jews
o Restricted intermarriage
More Laws of Persecution
Over the next few years the Nazis will create more laws to further put down the
Jews in Germany.
Must wear ________________________________ at all times.
Restricted from public places.
Denied civil service jobs.
Had to _____________________________________________
Jewish doctors could not treat anyone other than Jews.
Jewish lawyers could not help anyone other than Jews.
Kristallnacht
Translated as ___________________________________________
Date __________________________________________________
What happened? _______________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
o Stores, homes, and synagogues were often shattered and burned.
Cost of lifeo _____________________o _____________________
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The Final Solution
In July 1941 Hitler established what he called the “Final Solution” – what to do with the “Jewish questions” in Germany and its dominated territories.
Starting in September 1941, ______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
They were made to pack up and move to ____________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Aspects of the Holocaust
GHETTOS
What were ghettos? _____________________________________________
o Jews were forced to live there.
What was the purpose of ghettos? __________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Started as ______________________________
o Could go and leave as you wanted, but had to be back by curfew.
30,000 incarcerated and taken to camps.
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Changed to _____________________________
o Jews were _________________________________________
o __________________________________________________
o Only had food that was delivered to the ghetto.
Life in the ghetto could be short or long. There was no telling who would
stay or who would go.
Deportations happened very suddenly.
o _________________________________________
o Sent to either ____________________________________________
o This was called __________________________________________
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
o Nazis tried to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto in April of 1943.
o The Jews organized themselves and fought back. Their resistance held
out for ___________________.
Longer than most European countries were able to do.
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TRAINS
When Jews were taken from ghettos and put on trains they were told they
were being _________________________________________________.
Many times they were told they were going to work on farms.
Were not allowed to __________________________________________.
o There was no room.
The rides could be for days or weeks.
Did not provide _____________________________________.
People suffered through heat in the summer and freezing temps in the
winter.
There was nowhere to use the bathroom.
o Had to ___________________________________________.
Sadly, ______________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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THE CAMPS
Concentration campo Also known as a ___________________________
o You could ________________________________________, work
until you were ____________________________________________,
or you’d be taken off the train and immediately die.
Death camp
o Solely used for __________________________________________
______________________________________________________
o The largest one was __________________________.
The first concentration camps was in Dachau (1933).
1933-1938: Most prisoners were __________________________________ who had spoken out against Hitler and the Nazi party.
At a number of the camps there were Nazi doctors who used prisoners as “test subjects” for their medical experiments.
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Camp conditionso Absolutely horrible!
o ___________________________________________
o Lived in bunk houses with small beds – multiple people per bed.
o ___________________________________________
o ___________________________________________
o Sickness or weakness often got you killed.
o ___________________ was a part of daily life for the Jews.
o Beaten, ridiculed, and given demeaning & disgusting jobs.
o Women were sometimes made to be ___________________________
o Gay Nazi SS would force themselves upon the men.
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Modes of deatho ________________________
o ________________________
DEATH MARCHES
As __________________________ started closing in on Germany during
WWII the Nazis knew they needed to start ___________________________
o ________________________
o ________________________
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_____________________________________.
Graves were dug up and bodies burned.
Camps were evacuated.
Death Marches were the __________________________________ before prisoners were pushed into extermination camps and killed in massive amounts.
SS organized people into rows – usually 5 across.
Guards stayed on the outside of the rows and held guns pointed at the prisoners.
Anyone who was already ______________________________________ could not possibly finish the march.
Anyone who _________________________________________________
_________________________ was immediately shot by the SS guards.
LIBERATION Most liberations happened in ________________.
Russia liberated Auschwitz in ______________________________.
US Forces liberated Buchenwald in _________________________.
Many survivors were so weak and starved that they ____________________
_____________________________________________________________
____________________________________ and spread quickly through the
weakened people.
Liberating forces were shocked by the horror and starvation that they saw
among the people.
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In the beginning they readily gave the prisoners food, but this often had
consequences, because their stomachs were not able to take in that much.
o ________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Most commonly, liberated people did not know _______________________
_____________________________ and often had to start a new life alone.
Famous Survivors
Walter Kase from Polando Works for the Houston, TX Holocaust Museum and a member of the
Anti-Defamation League. Elie Wiesel from Romania
o Author of the book Night. Primo Levi from Italy
o Author of the book Survival in Auschwitz. Roman Polanski from Poland
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o Famous Hollywood movie director Dr. Ruth Westheimer from Germany
o Famous sex education spokesperson and sex education advocate.