Learning from our Past?

 1 in 4 First Nations children live in poverty.  38% of the deaths of children ages were suicides.  “Third World” diseases are more common  1 in 3 First Nations people do not consider their water safe to drink

 Many Jewish people remained well-off. This made people who lost their jobs angry.  People were afraid that immigrants and Jewish people would take their jobs.

 The Nazi party used this anger and fear to convince people their persecution of Jewish people was right.  Using bad science some German scientists tried to assign racial traits to Jews as a group. They were, the Germans said, greedy, selfish, sneaky and polluting the German race.

 More and more rights were taken away from Jewish people  Had to wear yellow star to identify them  Were not allowed to be doctors, teachers, lawyers and many other jobs  Had to follow curfews and strict rules about where they could go

 Eventually many of Europe’s Jews were sent to death camps  Over 6 million Jewish people died in the Holocaust  Over 1 million of those were children