1. Lesson Three The Holocaust
The Nazis killed 6 million Jews and 5 million other people (the disabled, mentally ill, incurably ill, homosexuals, and people of ethnic ancestry) during the Holocaust

2. Lesson Three The Holocaust
Since the middle ages Jews had been subjected to discrimination and sometimes violence
Anti-Semitism was common throughout Europe

3. Lesson Three The Holocaust
After the Nazis took power they limited the rights of German Jews
Their citizenships were revoked
Jews could not marry non-Jews
Could not hold public office or vote
They were not allowed to practice law or medicine
They could not own businesses

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Kristallnacht – the night of broken glass
November 1938 a Jewish refugee killed a German Diplomat in Paris in retaliation for being exiled from Germany
Ant-Jewish violence erupted across Germany and Austria
90 Jews were killed
Jewish businesses and Synagogues were destroyed

7. Lesson Three The Holocaust
,000 Jews fled Germany
Some came to the US, including Albert Einstein

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Jews applied for Visas to go to other countries in mass numbers
Millions never received them and they were trapped in Nazi- controlled Europe

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Unemployment problems, immigration quotas, and the lack of money all caused problems for the refugees seeking to enter the US
Some refugees were turned away for not having legal visas, even after they had sailed to the new country

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SS St. Louis tried to bring refugees to Cuba but they did not have the appropriate documentation
The St. Louis than tried to dock in the US, but they were denied

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The St. Louis returned to Europe
The majority of the Jewish refugees on the St. Louis died in concentration camps

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13. Lesson Three The Holocaust
Jews had previously been rounded up and either executed or put into ghettos like the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland
Both proved to be slow and inefficient for the Nazis

16. Jews being escorted during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

17. Jews being escorted during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

19. Lesson Three The Holocaust
The Final Solution was Hitler’s plan to eliminate the people that he deemed as “undesirables”
Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirables” were sent to concentration camps

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The healthy were worked until they dropped dead
They died from exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition
The elderly, young, or sick were sent to extermination camps
They were executed in gas chambers

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Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps with 200,000 prisoners

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Auschwitz was the biggest extermination camp
100,000 prisoners were housed there

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Auschwitz had gas chambers that could kill 2,000 people at a time and 12,000 a day
An estimated 1,600,000 people were executed

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The healthy were sent to work as slave labor at Auschwitz, the rest were immediately executed

35. Lesson Three The Holocaust
In just a few years the Jewish culture was virtually obliterated by the Nazis