Holocaust Background– The Bloodlands
Background to the Holocaust Building distrust and hatred for Jewish People German Boycotts of Jewish Businesses Nuremberg Law—Anti Jewish Laws Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht 4/9-10/1938 The Night of Broken Glass Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses destroyed 20,000 Jews arrested and sent to concentration camps
Genocide The deliberate killing of an entire group of people
The Holocaust Systematic murder of 11+ million people Occurred across Europe (esp. Bloodlands) Half of whom were Jews
Non-Jewish Victims Gypsies Freemasons Jehovah Witnesses Homosexuals Slavic Peoples (Russians) Poles Political Prisoners
Different Camps Extermination (death) Camps Concentration Camps Pure Extermination camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka(Operation Reinhard) and Chelmno Combination Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek Given a task/ job Worked 22 Main camps in Germany and other European countries