1. The Promise of Never Again: The Holocaust

2. Journal
Describe a time you witnessed an injustice. Did you speak out against it? If so, what inspired you to act? Why didn’t you act?

3. Holocaust
The original definition of the word means a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
After World War II, the term was used to refer to the systematic and calculated slaughter of civilians, especially Jews

4. Nazi Power (1933-1939) Hitler rises to power in Germany
He promotes ideas of German nationalism & racial hatred of the Jewish people
He believes that Germany needs lebensraum (living space) and racial purity.

5. Jewish Persecution
Jewish persecution has been going on throughout Europe for many centuries.
In 1933, the Nazis made Jewish persecution a government policy.
Laws passed to discriminate against Jews
Used “science” to justify persecution

6. Nazi Propaganda
"The year is over.
The struggle goes on!"

7. KRISTALLNACHT “Night of Broken Glass”
In wave of German anger, Jewish businesses and homes are destroyed in 1938.
Major step in Nazi policy of Jewish persecution

11. Ghettos ( )
Segregated & overcrowded areas that Jewish people were herded into.
Became transition areas before being sent to death/work camps
Dwellers were given ration cards (300 calories/day)
Ghettos were filthy with poor sanitation

12. Approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw ghetto in early 1941
Approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw ghetto in early At this time, the ghetto contained about 840 acres, of which 760 acres were habitable. About 37% of the Greater Warsaw population was squeezed into 4.6% of the area of the city. Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce Poland. No. 95.

13. Smuggling food

14. Forced Labor

15. Homeless Children

16. Jewish Resistance Despite difficult conditions, many Jews held on
Examples
Smuggled food & other needed items
Maintained traditions
Secret schools
Scholars kept records

17. The Final Solution
FINAL SOLUTION: a program of GENOCIDE—systemic killing of an entire people
Why?:To preserve “Aryan” purity
Who was targeted?:Jews, Gypsies, Poles & Russians. Also the insane, the disabled, incurably ill & homosexuals

22. SHOOTING PROVES TOO SLOW, COSTLY AND EMOTIONALLY DRAINING ON THE SOLDIERS.
THE ANSWER
CONCENTRATION CAMPS

23. The Concentration Camps (1941-1942)
Types of Camps
Labor
Death
Transit
Prisoner of War
Living/Working conditions:
Brutal
Worked 7 days a week
Little food
Poor Conditions

29. The Final Stage: Mass Extermination
In 1942, Nazi death camps built equipped with gas chambers (6000/day) and crematoriums

30. Human Losses
An estimated 6,000,000 Jews died were killed during the Holocaust
2/3 of the Jewish population in Europe
Entire families are gone
Approximately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 others were killed during the Holocaust (Gypsies, homosexuals, Polish people, Russians, mentally retarded, and others)
At least 50,000,000 people died during the course of World War II

35. “Never Again” by Remedy
Listen to the song and follow along with the lyrics on the page in front of you
Underline or circle words or phrases you hear that relate to the Holocaust

36. HOLOCAUST ACROSTIC POEM
Create an acrostic poem using the letters in the word HOLOCAUST
Each line must have at least 3 words.
HOLOCAUST