THE HOLOCAUST

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THE HOLOCAUST

• By Rachel Yoo
• 9E

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• Final Solution
• Hitlers plan to kill many Jews using the
  method of genocide
• the killing of a whole nation or race.

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• Hitlers believed that Non-Aryans (non-Germans)
• - Jews,
• - gypsies,
• - homosexuals,
• - the mentally ill,
• - the disabled
• were more inferior than the Nazis.
• After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939,
• The Füher( leader), Adolf Hitler, sent the SS
  units ( security force) to get all the Jews
• and took them to an isolated place or pit,
• where they shot the prisoners.

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The Life in the concentration camps

• Those not killed were taken to Concentration
  Camps.

• Jews had to work 7 days a week.
• Jews were beaten brutally
• Many died of starvation and disease.

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• Camps were built in Germany, Poland and places
  Germans occupied.

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Mass extermination

• 1942, Nazis kill 6,000 people a day by poisoning
  them with cyanide gas in gas chambers.
• First death camps built in Poland.
• Took about 30 minutes for everyone in gas chamber
  to die.
• Ovens built to burn the corpses

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The tragic death of the Jews

• Gas chambers in the Auschiwitz camp killed 12,000
  people a day.
• Over 4 million Jews died all together in the
  concentration camps.
• 1 million died in ghettos because of starvation
  and diseases.
• Over 1 million were shot to death.

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Medical experiments

• Dr. Josef Mengele carried out experiments
• - tried drugs on prisoners.
• - froze them to death
• - put chemicals in childrens eyes
• - dissection

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The Survivors of the Holocaust

• Between 1941-1945,
• Jews died in death camps.
• 6 million Jews died.
• Fewer than 4 million survived.
• Non-jewish like Sweden businessman, Wallenberg,
  and a Protestant, Bonhoeffer,
• helped Jews to escape to NEUTRAL countries
  like Sweden and Switzerland.

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"It took some time before we learned to smile
again."