Lesson Three The Holocaust The Nazis killed 6 million Jews and 5 million other people (the disabled, mentally ill, incurably ill, homosexuals, and people of ethnic ancestry) during the Holocaust

Lesson Three The Holocaust Since the middle ages Jews had been subjected to discrimination and sometimes violence Anti-Semitism was common throughout Europe

Lesson Three The Holocaust After the Nazis took power they limited the rights of German Jews Their citizenships were revoked Jews could not marry non-Jews Could not hold public office or vote They were not allowed to practice law or medicine They could not own businesses

Lesson Three The Holocaust Kristallnacht – the night of broken glass November 1938 a Jewish refugee killed a German Diplomat in Paris in retaliation for being exiled from Germany Ant-Jewish violence erupted across Germany and Austria 90 Jews were killed Jewish businesses and Synagogues were destroyed

Lesson Three The Holocaust 1933-1939 250,000 Jews fled Germany Some came to the US, including Albert Einstein

Lesson Three The Holocaust Jews applied for Visas to go to other countries in mass numbers Millions never received them and they were trapped in Nazi- controlled Europe

Lesson Three The Holocaust Unemployment problems, immigration quotas, and the lack of money all caused problems for the refugees seeking to enter the US Some refugees were turned away for not having legal visas, even after they had sailed to the new country

Lesson Three The Holocaust SS St. Louis tried to bring refugees to Cuba but they did not have the appropriate documentation The St. Louis than tried to dock in the US, but they were denied

Lesson Three The Holocaust The St. Louis returned to Europe The majority of the Jewish refugees on the St. Louis died in concentration camps

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Lesson Three The Holocaust Jews had previously been rounded up and either executed or put into ghettos like the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland Both proved to be slow and inefficient for the Nazis

Jews being escorted during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jews being escorted during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Lesson Three The Holocaust The Final Solution was Hitler’s plan to eliminate the people that he deemed as “undesirables” Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirables” were sent to concentration camps

Lesson Three The Holocaust The healthy were worked until they dropped dead They died from exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition The elderly, young, or sick were sent to extermination camps They were executed in gas chambers

Lesson Three The Holocaust Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps with 200,000 prisoners

Lesson Three The Holocaust Auschwitz was the biggest extermination camp 100,000 prisoners were housed there

Lesson Three The Holocaust Auschwitz had gas chambers that could kill 2,000 people at a time and 12,000 a day An estimated 1,600,000 people were executed

Lesson Three The Holocaust The healthy were sent to work as slave labor at Auschwitz, the rest were immediately executed

Lesson Three The Holocaust In just a few years the Jewish culture was virtually obliterated by the Nazis