1. Gerda Wiessman Klein dob May 8, 1924

2. Death Marches

3. Presidential Award of Freedom 2010

4. DOD:
2002

5. Lesson 3: The Holocaust
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews

6. Holocaust Victims

8. A. Why the Jews? Easy target Nuremberg Laws (1935),
stripped Jews of citizenship and property rights; jobs
Banned intermarriage
No public office or voting
Change to Jewish names; easy identification

9. 3. Kristallnacht: Crystal night (1938)
a. German ambassador to France killed by a German Jew
b. Nazi troops destroyed Jewish business & synagogues in retaliation
c >100 killed in one night;1000s of businesses destroyed

11. 4. Where can the Jews go? (1933) a. Refugee problem…
National Origins Act of 1929; limited immigration to 150,000 in U.S.
b. U.S., depression, refugees…
How are these connected?
c. St. Louis Affair (1939)

12. German Forces German army
Schutzstaffel: started as Hitler’s bodyguards.
Lead by Henrich Himmler
Gestapo: the Secret State police
German army

13. B. The Final Solution: Genocide
The condemned: Jews and any other seen as undesirable, i.e
a. Political opponents – communists, socialist
b. Religious groups
c. Homosexuals
d. Disabled; mentally, physically
2. Method
Shot in cold blood
starved ghettos
sent to labor/concentration camps
Used for medical experiments

14. Gestapo controlled concentration camps; <half of those who died here are shown

15. E. Concentration Camps 1. Camps in Poland Medical experiments
“showers”; 6,000 a day
Discarding of bodies problematic =
Crematoriums

17. To the right, slave labor To the left, gas chamber