1. The Holocaust

2. What was the Holocaust? The Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews
Nazis killed another 5 million which included homosexuals, disabled, Soviet POW’s, Polish civilians, Communists and political prisoners
Took place all over Europe
Final Solution (1942 Wannsee Conference)

3. Differentiating prisoners

5. Experiments
Hypothermia-inmates were placed in freezing water or in brutal cold for hours
Made inmates sterile by exposing them to radiation
Some were injected with malaria

6. This women
was deliberately
cut on her leg
and the wound
was infected with
bacteria, dirt and
glass (simulates
war injury)
Sulfonamide

7. Placed in
a low pressure
chamber to
simulate
68,000 feet in
Altitude
As pressure
gets lower,
oxygen
gets thinner

10. Concentration Camp vs Death Camp
Concentration camp is where anyone is detained under harsh conditions
Death camp is where people will be killed or will die
Those sent directly to death camps were the elderly and very young (why?)

11. Selection; to the right went workers
To the left and you went to the gas chambers
Selection Scene

12. Auschwitz By far the largest death camp In Poland (3 camps)
Believed that 1.6 million Jews murdered here
Most were killed with a gas called Zyklon-B
20,000 bodies could be gassed and cremated a day

13. Empty gas cannisters of
Zyklon-B

20. Did the Jews Fight Back? Yes, there were some resistance movements
The biggest being in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943
About 750 Jews rebelled for a month
Almost all of those that took part were capture/killed

22. Results Holocaust ends as camps are liberated by Allies
Half of Europe’s Jewish population is killed
Israel, a homeland for many Jews, will be created 1948
Some Nazi doctors are put on trial

23. 761st Tank Battalion
African-American unit that liberated a sub-camp of Mauthausen

24. SCHINDLER’S LIST VIDEO CLIPS
Goeth Kills 25
Who Stole The Chicken?
Shower Scene
Balcony Shooting Scene
Make Me A Hinge

25. Will I Survive WW II/Holocaust?
You will all receive an ID badge
Do not peak and do not tell others what theirs says
Your job is two part: 1. Try to figure out who you are and 2. What are your chances of surviving the Holocaust/ WW II?

26. Questions You Can Ask Am I a native of Germany?
Am I an individual or a member of a group?
Am I persecuted by the Nazis?
Am I a civilian (non-military)?
Do you think I have a good shot at surviving the Holocaust/WW II?