1. Overview and Aftermath
The Holocaust
Overview and Aftermath

2. The Jewish population in Europe, starting in Germany would come under attack during the years
Of the 11 million Jews that lived in Europe during this time the Nazis would murder over 6 million Jews
This genocide is known as the Holocaust
Overview

3. 1933 Hitler is appointed to Chancellor
1933 Enabling Act is passed- giving Hitler the power to rule by emergency decree
1933 March Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhasen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbruck for women.
1933 April  Germans told to boycott Jewish Shops
1934 The Night of long knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a purge of the SA (storm trooper) leadership

4. 1935 Nuremburg laws are passed
Jews no longer allowed to be German citizens
Jews not allowed to have sexual relationships with non Jews
Jews not allowed to marry non-Jews
1936  Jews banned from ‘Professional’ jobs
1937 Jews banned from working in any political or governmental job
1938 Germany and Austria are united- Austrian Jews now persecuted all Jewish passports stamped with a Red J

5. 1938 Kristallnacht- Night of Broken Class
Night of violence towards Jews
100 Jews murdered
20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps
Synagogues, homes and businesses burned
Jews forced to pay a fine for Kristallnacht
1938 Jews banned from state schools/cinemas/ public places
Jews forced to close down and sell their businesses
1939German occupation of Czech starts
Germany invades Poland
Jews in Poland and Czech begin to be persecuted
All Jews in Nazi controlled territory forced to wear yellow start

6. 1940 Germany invades Holland and Denmark, Belgium and Norway
Persecution in these countries begins
Auschwitz opens
Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off in Poland 400,000 Jews inside
1941 Germany invades USSR
All Jews now have to wear yellow star
Western Jews deported to Polish Ghettos
Gassing of Jews start at Chelmno- first death camp
1942 Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz Death camps begin mass murdering Jews
Mass deportation of Western Jews to Auschwitz

7. 1944 Hungarian Jews begin to be deported to Auschwitz
1943 Death camps at Chelmno and Treblinka finish their work – camps are torn down and replanted with trees
1944 Hungarian Jews begin to be deported to Auschwitz
1945- Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz
British and American forces liberate western Concentration camps

8. Death toll of the Holocaust
The single most important thing to keep in mind when attempting to document numbers of victims of the Holocaust is that no one master list of those who perished exists anywhere in the world.
What follows are the current best estimates of civilians and disarmed soldiers killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
These estimates are calculated from wartime reports generated by those who implemented Nazi population policy, and postwar demographic studies on population loss during World War II.
National Holocaust Museum
Death toll of the Holocaust

9. Death toll Number of Deaths Jews: up to 6 million
Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)
Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)
Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million (including between 50,000 and 100,000 members of the Polish elites)
Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000
People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000
Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000
Jehovah's Witnesses: Around 1,900
Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials: at least 70,000
German political opponents and resistance activists in Axis-occupied territory: undetermined
Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands (possibly also counted in part under the 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials noted above)
Death toll

10. Jewish Loss by Location of Death
With regard to the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust, best estimates for the breakdown of Jewish loss according to location of death follow:
Auschwitz complex (including Birkenau, Monowitz, and subcamps): approximately 1 million
Treblinka 2: approximately 925,000
Belzec: 434,508
Sobibor: at least 167,000
Chelmno: 156,000–172,000
Shooting operations around southern German-occupied Poland (the so-called Government General): at least 200,000
Shooting operations in German-annexed western Poland (District Wartheland): at least 20,000
Deaths in other facilities that the Germans designated as concentration camps: at least 150,000
Gas wagons at hundreds of locations in the German-occupied Soviet Union: at least 1.3 million
Shooting operations in the Soviet Union: approximately 55,000
Shooting operations and gas wagons in Serbia: at least 15,088
Shot or tortured to death in Croatia under the Ustaša regime: 23,000–25,000
Deaths in ghettos: at least 800,000
Jewish Loss by Location of Death

12. Aftermath of the Holocaust
Get into groups 5 or 6
For each activity there will be a central question that your group must answer
Along with the Central question, you will need to answer all the other questions.
Areas to be discussed
Where did they go?
Holding Nazi high ranking officials accountable
Impact on the World.
Aftermath of the Holocaust