Holocaust Liberators

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Holocaust Liberators

• The true stories from, and about people, and
  Liberators who have been through Holocaust.

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Table of Contents

• Holocaust Liberators
• Table of Contents
• Holocaust Experiences
• Adolph Hitler
• The Time Line of the Nazi
• Who Were the Liberators
• About the Concentration Camps
• Hiding Jews
• Why Jews
• Released Prisoners Give Thanks
• Definitions
• Most of My Resources

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Holocaust Experiences

• A former soldier named Charles V. Ferre has
  written a little passage that was on the web,
  that really caught my eye. He talked about his
  time in Germany during the war in 1941. He also
  mentioned about a time when him and other
  soldiers went into some camps and were astonished
  at what they saw. Bodies with just skin on them,
  bones and everything just hanging out. Kids
  running around looked like they were made out of
  just bones because they were so malnourished.

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Adolph Hitler

• Hitler
• Was born on April 20,1889.
• His father died on January 3, 1903.
• His mother died on December 21, 1907.
• He was homeless in Vienna from 1909-1913.
• At around 1920 Hitler made his first real speech
  in a beer cellar.
• He did a very good job.
• He was elected into the Nazi party and adopts the
  Swastika flag.
• In 1921 Hitler was named leader of the Nazi party.

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Time Line of the Nazi.

• Rise of the Nazi Party (1918-1933). During the
  fourteen years following the end of World War I,
  the Nazi party grew from a small political group
  to the most powerful party in Germany.
• Nazification (1933-1939). Once Hitler became
  Chancellor and later Reichsführer, the Nazi party
  quickly changed Germany's political, social, and
  economic structure.
• The Ghettos (1939-1941). Confining Jews to
  ghettos was another critical step in Hitler's
  Final Solution.
• The Camps (1941-1942). The concentration camps
  were Hitler's final step in the annihilation of
  the Jews.
• Resistance (1942-1944). People resisted by any
  means possible, from stealing a slice of bread to
  sabotaging Nazi installations.
• Rescue and Liberation (1944-1945). Some survived
  through the heroics of neighbors others were
  liberated by the Allies.
• Aftermath (1945-2000). After the war, Nazi
  perpetrators faced punishment for their war
  crimes and survivors began rebuilding their lives

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Who Were the Liberators

• A liberator is a person who frees one who is held
  captive. The most common Liberators were the
  American troops who fought the Germans, then
  freed the prisoners. Unfortunately many prisoners
  were killed.

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About the Concentration Camps

• The concentration camps are
• Where the Jews and other prisoners were held
  captive.
• Some prisoners were just sent to suffer in the
  camps as others were slaughtered in
  Extermination Camps.
• As seen on this map, there are around twenty
  camps.
• The most common people found in these camps were
  Jews.

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Hiding Jews

• People who were non Jews, that had Jewish friends
  would help the Jews and hide them. If the Nazi
  army found the Jews in hiding, then they would be
  shot on the spot as shown in the picture.

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Why Jews

• There is no rational explanation why Hitler
  killed Jews and half Jews. He is just said to
  have wanted Germany to be a better nation, and to
  do that he didnt want any Jews.

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Released Liberated Prisoners Give Thanks

• After being set free from the Concentration
  Camps, the released Liberated Prisoners rejoice
  and give thanks to the United States Army. In
  this picture the prisoners are proudly waving
  their homemade American flag.

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Definitions

• Liberator- A liberator is a person who set people
  free from concentration camps, prison, etc. (Pg.6
  )
• Liberated Prisoner- A prisoner that was set free
  by a liberator. (Pg.10 )
• Nazi- A short term for National
• Socialist German Workers Party, formed in 1919,
  headed by Adolph Hitler from 1921-1945. (Pg. 4
  and 5)
• Concentration Camp A Nazi camp of death. (Pg.7 )

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My Resources

• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps
  .htm

• http//www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/

• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/rescu
  e.htm
• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/74599.
  htm