1. A pictorial guide of genocide
The Holocaust:
A pictorial guide of genocide

2. Holocaust – mass murder of 11 million people in Europe Nazis begin targeting Jews -blame for economy - Nuremberg Laws strip Jews of German citizenship -Make Jews wear Star of David Kristallnact – Nov attack and kill Jews; destroy their homes and businesses
The Beginning

4. The Holocaust Genocide – deliberate killing of an entire population
Aryans – “Master race” in Hitler’s eyes
Condemn Jews, Gypsies, Freemason, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally ill and hanicapped
Develop the SS to gather up these groups and place into ghettos
The Holocaust

5. The Ghetto Sealed up by brick and barbed wire
Dead bodies on the street
Jews set up secret newspapers and schools
The Ghetto

9. Concentration Camps Labor camps Families were separated
Hunger, Humiliation and Death
Crowded living conditions
Worked all day long
Concentration Camps

14. Mass Murders 1942 Nazis build 6 death camps – Auschwitz (largest)
Decide who would die, who would work
Leave all belonging and go to gas chamber to “shower” – poisoned with cyanide gas
Some were used to test sterilization and diseases
6 million Jews died
Mass Murders