The concentration camps of the Holocaust

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The concentration camps of the Holocaust
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The Jews in hiding

• The war started in 1941,
• The Jews chose to hide to save themselves as well
  as their families

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A Concentration camps

• When the Jews were put in camps they were barley
  fed.
• They where forced to dig there own graves

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Identification

• The Jews had to wear a star to let the
  Einsatzgruppe know who they where
• As well as what they were

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Gallows one of many ways Jews were killed
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mass grave
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A lethal killing method

• Close-up view of a bin-like drawer designed to
  introduce poisons into the death chamber
• hinges on the
• bottom allowing the
• device to rock in or
• out.

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The lives claimed by the gas chamber

• Bodies piled up in front of the wooden screen
  located in front of the bin-like drawers

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Holocaust time line

• 1933
• Hitler was named German Chancellor (Jan.).
  Dachau, first concentration camp, established
  (March). Boycotts against Jews begin (April).
• 1935
• Anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws
• passed by Reichstag Jews lose
• citizenship and civil rights (Sept.).
• 1937
• Buchenwald concentration
• camp opens (July

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Time line continued

• 1938
• Extension of anti-Semitic laws to Austria after
  annexation (March). Kristallnacht (Night of
  Broken Glass)anti-Semitic riots and destruction
  of Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria
  (Nov. 9). 26,000 Jews sent to concentration
  camps Jewish children expelled from schools
  (Nov. 910). Expropriation of Jewish property and
  businesses (Dec.).
• 1940
• As war continues, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing
  squads) follow German army into conquered lands,
  rounding up and massacring Jews and other
  undesirables.

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Time line continued

• 1941
• Goering instructs Heydrich to carry out the
  final solution to the Jewish question (July
  31). Deportation of German Jews begins massacres
  of Jews in Odessa and Kiev (Nov.) and in Riga
  and Vilna (Dec.).
• 1942
• Mass killings using Zyklon-B begin at
  Auschwitz-Birkenau (Jan.). Nazi leaders attend
  Wannsee Conference to coordinate the final
  solution (Jan. 20). 100,000 Jews from Warsaw
  Ghetto deported to Treblinka death camp (July).
• 1943
• Warsaw Ghetto uprisings (Jan. and April) Ghetto
  exterminated (May).

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Reference

• http//fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps
  .htm
• news.bbc.co.uk/.../ newsid_4192900/4192955.stm
• www.fctp.co.uk/ whatisthecost.asp
• www.newseum.org/holocaust/ html/publicaccepts.htm
  
• http//www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambe
  rs/
• http//www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001286.html