1. Chapter 26 The Holocaust

2. In Remembrance As the Allies liberated areas that had been under German control, they found evidence of Nazi brutality. Concentration camps – prison camps for civilians “I watched a family of about eight persons... [A soldier] instructed them to go behind the earth mound...They went down into the pit, lined themselves up against the previous victims and were shot.” -Witness of massacre of Russian Jews “Across the sandy clearing is the incinerator, but it ran out of fuel. A rough record by the chief burner of bodies records 17,000 burned last month. They say each body was roughly clubbed as it went in.” -British Reporter, R.W. Thompson In the largest camp, Auschwitz (Poland) Nazis killed between 1 and 2 million people; As many as 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. (Others included Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, Gypsies, and people with handicaps. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; National WWII Memorial- dedicated to all who served during the war.

3. Jews being humiliated in class "The Jew is our greatest enemy, beware of the Jew".

4. Jews were required to wear a yellow star. Other prisoners wore triangle images in different colors for easy identification. A red triangle for liberals, socialists and communists, green for common criminals, pink for homosexuals purple for Jehovah's witnesses and black for asocial or antisocial such as alcoholics, prostitutes or vagrants. Jews were required to wear a yellow star. Other prisoners wore triangle images in different colors for easy identification. A red triangle for liberals, socialists and communists, green for common criminals, pink for homosexuals purple for Jehovah's witnesses and black for asocial or antisocial such as alcoholics, prostitutes or vagrants.

5. Map of death and concentration camps

6. Aerial view of camp

7. RR entering Auschwitz

9. Children taken from their families

12. Prisoners working in the camps

13. Prisoners working

14. Auschwitz: Death camp “Work will set you free”

15. Prisoners

16. Prisoners

17. Clothes of the Jews

18. Clothes taken from the Jews

19. Shoes taken from the Jews

20. Bags of Hair

21. Execution wall

22. Shooting wall

23. Gas Chambers

25. Zyklon-B was dropped in

26. Zyklon ( poison gas)

27. Crematorium

29. Crematoriums

30. Prisoners cleaning out the ovens

36. Barracks (sleeping quarters)

37. Latrines

38. Medical Examinations