1. The Holocaust
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

2. What do you know about the Holocaust?
What was it?
When was it?
What happened?

3. Words to know…
Holocaust- is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”
Genocide-the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group
Final Solution - euphemism to describe Nazi plan to annihilate the Jewish people
Anti-Semitism- hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

5. At the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt (on left) is President of the United States.

6. Winston Churchill is the Prime Minister of England.

7. FDR and Churchill are shown here with the leader of the
Soviet Union Joseph Stalin.

8. Hideki Tojo was prime minister
of Japan from

9. Adolf Hitler was the Dictator ruling Germany.

10. Heinrich
Himmler:
was the head
of the SS
and the Nazi
secret police.

11. Hitler and the Nazi party blamed Jews for the problems
in Germany and thought they were inferior.

12. Jewish people were required to identify themselves by
wearing yellow stars on their jackets.

13. A Jewish couple in the Budapest ghetto wear yellow stars on their jackets.

14. Children had to follow
this rule as well.

15. Some were forced to live in ghettos to keep Jews separate
from the rest of the population. Conditions were cramped
and food and medicine were limited.

16. Jewish passports had to be marked with a large J.

17. Nazis destroyed Jewish owned
businesses on "the night of broken glass."

18. On the Night of Broken Glass, November 9, 1938,
synagogues were burned, 91 Jews were killed
and 30,000 Jews were arrested.

19. Anne Frank was one of many Jews who went into
hiding to avoid Nazi capture.

20. Anne’s family, her parents and older sister Margot,
were living in Amsterdam in 1942.
They began hiding in her father’s office building.

21. This bookshelf hid the secret section
where the Franks and others lived.
Anne Frank's Secret Annex

22. Anne’s story does not have a happy ending.

23. her time in hiding. It was discovered after her family
She kept a diary during
her time in hiding. It was
discovered after her family
was taken. It is studied by
students all over the world.

24. This is the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where 6,000 people were
put to death each day by the Nazis.

25. An estimated 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 people were killed
at the camp. The roof holds a line of chimneys in buildings where
bodies were burned. .

26. This photo shows the interior of one of the
dormitory houses at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland

27. People were kept in very cramped and unsanitary spaces.

28. These are survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in
their barracks after liberation by the Allies.

29. This gas chamber was the largest room at Auschwitz.

30. The ovens at Auschwitz cremated
the bodies of those who died in the camp.

31. A Holocaust survivor shows the prisoner number
tattooed on her arm at a concentration camp.

32. Two World War II prisoners of war stare through a barbed wire fence.

33. The gas chamber at a Nazi concentration camp
in Poland, the walls were stained blue by Zyklon B.

34. Wedding rings the Nazis removed
from their victims to salvage the gold.

35. Concentration camp prisoners could be given as little as 200
calories a day and forced to
perform hard labor.

36. Women and children were executed in cold blood.

37. This is a ravine filled with the bodies
of murdered women and children.

38. Survivors of one of the largest
Nazi concentration camps in Austria.

39. Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.

40. More than 6 million Jews were killed,
They lost two-thirds of their total European population.

41. The Holocaust and its victims must never be forgotten.

42. History Channel videos on Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Concentration Camp Liberation
Anne Frank Captured