2. Persecution Begins
-Anti-Jewish sentiments for many centuries all over the world
-Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” blamed Jews for Germany’s problems: Great Depression, & many G’s are easily convinced
-Nuremburg Laws
took away civil rights of Jews
Star of David
-Kristallnacht, “Night of Broken Glass”
destruction of Jewish property & synagogues across Germany

4. Persecution Begins
-Anti-Jewish sentiments for many centuries
-Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” blamed Jews for Germany’s problems
-Nuremburg Laws
took away civil rights of Jews
Star of David
-Kristallnacht, 1938
destruction of Jewish proerty

5. Jewish Refugees
-after Hitler’s election, many Jews fled Germany- G wanted them to GET OUT!
-U.S. was one of many nations not accepting many Jewish refugees
why? Depression, seen as a threat
Albert Einstein
100,000
GB: 80,000
F: already had taken in 40,000
-Why did others not leave???
1. Depression 2. This won’t happen to me

6. Final Solution : Genocide: deliberate killing of an entire population
-1939
decision to rid Europe of all Jews and other undesirables, why? Only 250,000 remained in G, but many others had traveled to other nations G now Occupied – to purify master race
- Began in Poland w/ SS “Security Squadrons” rounding up Jews
-concentration camps set up across Europe (Labor Camps/ Death Camps)
-many sent to slave labor camps
-others were simply killed or experimented upon “Angel of Death”- Josef Mengele: Auschwitz

7. Final Solution
-1939
decision to rid Europe of all Jews and other undesirables
-concentration camps set up across Europe
-many sent to slave labor camps
-others were simply killed or experimented upon

8. Concentration Camps
-Jews gathered from ghettos and separated
-crude wooden barracks held thousands who were fit to work
-hunger and disease killed thousands

9. Death Camps
-as war went badly for Germany, they tried to speed Final Solution
-building of several death camps to execute Jews with poison gas- kill up to 12,000 a day
Poland had 6 death camps
-bodies were then buried in mass graves or burned
-Auschwitz
-Belzec
-Buchenwald

10. Death Camps
-as war went badly for Germany, they tried to speed Final Solution
-building of several death camps to execute Jews with poison gas
-bodies were then buried in mass graves or burned
-Auschwitz
-Belzec
-Buchenwald

12. Survivors
-6 million were killed in the Holocaust
-some were liberated by Allied armies
-others were helped to hide or escape from capture
-Elie Wiesel
“Night”
-Oscar Schindler