The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• Description
• History
• Victims
• Concentration Camps
• Liberation and Beyond

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Description
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What is The Holocaust?

• Holocaust was originally a Jewish term that meant
  "a burnt sacrifice offered to God"
• Now refers to the systematic annihilation
  (complete removal) of European Jews and other
  minority groups by Nazi Germany

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History
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Timeline

• The Holocaust is considered to have taken place
  between 1933-1945
• World War II officially took place between
  1939-1945

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• 1933 Hitler comes to power, along with his Nazi
  Party (National Socialist German Workers
• 1933 Nuremberg Laws make Jewish people second
  class citizens and Jewish businesses are boycotted

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• 1933-1935 plans to reduce genetic inferiors by
  sterilization
• 1933-1939 minorities are sent to concentration
  camps
• 1937-1939 Jews are not allowed to attend public
  schools or theatres, and could not live or even
  walk within certain sections of town

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• Plundered items from Jewish homes

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• 1938 During Kristallnacht (Night of Broken
  Glass), Jews are arrested, and their homes and
  synagogues are destroyed
• 1939 Germany invades Poland, start of WWII,
  Germans view Polish as subhuman
• 1942-1944 Polish Jews sent to extermination
  camps
• May 1945 Defeat of Nazi Germany

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Victims
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While not all victims were Jews, all Jews were
victims.

• Elie Wiesel

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• Gestapo beating a Jew

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There may be times when we are powerless to
prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest.

• Elie Wiesel

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Other minorities targeted

• Physically handicapped
• Mentally handicapped
• Gypsies
• Homosexuals
• Jehovahs Witnesses

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• Gypsies in Concentration Camp

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Wartime was the best time for the elimination of
the incurably ill.

• Adolf Hitler

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Children

• Did not escape the terror
• 1 ½ million Jewish and minority children were
  murdered

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• Jewish child in Ghetto

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• Children being deported

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Concentration Camps
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• Women and children were usually seen as useless
• Only those who could work or perform jobs were
  kept alive
• Those who were allowed to live were disinfected
  and their heads were shaved
• Many were killed in the poison gas showers

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• Crematory from Concentration Camp

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• Men in Concentration Camp
• Wiesel is in this picture

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• Glasses of those murdered in Concentration Camp

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• Sorting through clothes of people murdered in
  concentration camp

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• Mass Grave

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• Mass Burning

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Indifference makes that person dead before the
person dies.

• Elie Wiesel

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Liberation
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• Most people had few family members left
• Many people left Germany and Poland for other
  countries
• Some went to Displaced Persons camps

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• Liberation from a Concentration Camp

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• Removal of the Nazi Symbol after Liberation

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Elie Wiesel 1928-
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• 1986 won Nobel Peace Prize
• Currently a professor at Boston University
• Survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald
• Published Night, a memoir of his time in the
  concentration camps, in 1960.

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• (Left) Wiesel at age 15, (Right) Wiesel in
  Concentration Camp

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Oprahs interview with Elie Wiesel

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