Holocaust

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Holocaust

• By Nicole Starrett Tabitha Toland

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What is the Holocaust?

• Holocaust means sacrifice by fire in Greek.
• Jews, disabled people, Slavic people and gypsies
  were targeted during the Holocaust.
• The group whos responsible for the Holocaust is
  the National Socialist regime. Led by Adolf
  Hitler
• the Nazis called the Holocaust the The Final
  Solution of the Jewish Question
• The legislation for Jews form civil society was
  made long before World war 2 began.
• Holocaust definition In the 17th century the
  word was used to mean violent deaths of a large
  number of people.

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Women in the Holocaust

• In 1939 the SS opened Ravensbruck which was the
  largest concentration camp specifically for
  women.
• Which had almost 100,000 women.
• Women who were pregnant often had to get
  abortions.
• If they didnt get abortions they were sent to
  makeshift nurseries where the conditions would
  guarantee the infants death.
• The women were also vulnerable to beatings and
  rapes. ?
• Some times they had to have sexual relationships
  with German men for food and other things they
  need to stay alive.
• Sophie Scholl, a student at the University of
  Munich a member of the White Rose resistance
  group, was arrested and executed in Feb. 1943 for
  handing out anti-Nazi leaflets.

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Children during the Holocaust

• More than 1 million of the victims of the
  holocaust were children.
• In the ghettos, Jewish children died from
  starvation and exposure, and lack of adequate
  clothing and shelter.
• Between 1938-1940 the Kinder transport(
  children's transport) was the name of an attempt
  at rescue which brought Jewish children (without
  parents) to safety in the U.K.
• The Nazis thought that the children were useless
  eaters because they were too young to be at
  forced labor.
• Most of the children went straight to the gas
  chambers when they got to the killing centers.

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Timeline

• Jan. 30 1933Hitler appointed Chancellor (chief
  minister of state) of Germany which had a
  population of 566,000 Jews.
• Feb. 27 1933 Nazis burned down the Reichstag
  building to make a crisis atmosphere .
• March 24 1933 German Parliament passes an
  Enabling Act that gives Hitler dictatorial power.
• Sept. 29, 1933 Nazis make it so that Jews cant
  own land.
• Aug. 19, 1934 Hitler receives a 90 yes vote
  from German voters approving his new powers.
• March 15/16, 1939 Nazis troops Czechoslovakia (
  Jewish pop. 350,000)
• Sept. 3,1939 England and France declare war on
  Germany.
• Sept. 17,1939 Soviet invades eastern Poland.
• Sept. 1939 Put in Nazi newspaper- published by
  Julius Streicher- The Jewish people ought to be
  exterminated root and branch. Then the plague of
  pests would have disappeared in Poland at one
  stroke.
• Nov. 23,1939 All Polish Jews are required to
  wear Yellow stars.
• April 9,1940 Nazis invade Denmark (Jewish pop.
  8,000) and Norway( Jewish pop. 2,000)
• May 10,1940 Nazis invade France( Jewish pop.
  350,000), Belgium( Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland
  (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxemburg ( Jewish
  pop. 3500)
• Nov. 1940 Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become
  Nazi allies.
• That isnt all that happened in the Holocaust,
  but its a taste of what it was like.

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people in the holocaust
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Eva Gallar

• Place of Birth Oleszyce, Poland
• Date of birth Jan. 1,1924
• She escaped from a death train.
• Her and her two younger siblings jumped off of
  the train at their fathers request.
• When I didn't hear anymore the train, I got up.
• And the first thing I did, I took off my star,
  and I promised myself never again will I wear the
  star. Eva says.
• I went first to look after my sister and brother
  and found them dead. she says.
• After that she survived under an assumed name,
  and she was caught to work in Germany as a Polish
  girl. And she worked on a German farm under a
  false name and pretended that she was catholic.
  That is how she survived until the end of the
  war.

Eva Gallar during war times.
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Jeannine Burk

• Place of Birth Brussels, Belgium
• Date of BirthSept. 15,1939
• She was a hidden child.
• She will always remember when she was sitting in
  the out house and watching the Gestapo march down
  the street and inspect the houses.
• The Gestapo took her father one morning at 5
  oclock. Her mother wouldnt leave because of her
  daughters.
• Her sister was sick so she went to a Catholic
  Hospital to save her from the Gestapo.
• Her brother went to a Christian home for boys and
  was saved that way
• Her mother went to work at a nursing home. Nobody
  knew that her mom was a Jew because she didnt
  have the dark hair and hook nose.
• This was told to Jeannine after it had happened.

Her during her time in hiding.
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Anne Frank

• Anne was born on June 12,1929 in Frankfurt,
  Germany to her parents, Otto and Edith Frank.
• Until she was 5 years old she lived in an
  apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt with her
  sister, Margot and her parents.
• Their family fled to the Netherlands in Feb.1934,
  where her father had business connections.
• In the first week of July, Anne and her family
  went into hiding in an apartment that would
  eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well.
• On Aug. 4,1944, two years after living there the
  Gestapo came and discovered their hiding place
  after getting a hint from an anonymous Dutch
  caller.
• Now her diary is a popular book. That has been
  translated into many different languages.

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Adolf Hitler

• He was born on April 20, 1889 in a small city in
  Austria.
• Hitler was a German politician who became the
  leader of the National Socialist German Workers
  Party.
• He was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany in
  1933.
• After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg
  Hitler declared himself both President and
  Chancellor with the Enabling Act.
• And he stayed a totalitarian leader until his
  suicide in 1945.

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Alexander Grothendieck

• He was born March 28,1928 in Berlin, Germany.
• He is today known as one of the greatest
  mathematicians of the 20th century.
• In 1966 he was awarded the Fields Medal.
• In 1939 he went to France to live in many camps
  for displaced people with his mother
• The first camp was Camp de Rieucros and was there
  from 1942-1944.
• His father was sent from Drancy to Auschwitz
  where he died in 1942.

Him during the war.