1. Nazi Genocide: The Holocaust in Europe
What events led to the Final Solution?

2. Relocation to the Ghettos
After Kristallnacht, Jews in Germany realized they must get out of Germany
About 400K had already immigrated to Palestine, but British close it off since they are unsure what do w/ Arabs already living there
Jews look elsewhere, ships carrying Jewish immigrants like St. Louis were not permitted into US & other countries
Nazis realized Jews can’t get to other countries, so they began to deport Jews into segregated ghettos, mostly in Poland
Jews would be identified and forced to wear a star

3. The Holocaust in Europe
Nazis developed a plan of genocide known as “the Final Solution”
Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals& Communists considered “subhumans” , are eliminated by SS Killing Squads
SS not moving quickly enough so Nazis turn to poison gas (Zkylon-B)
Ghettos would be emptied and people would be shipped to work camps, mostly in Poland, by 1942 the work camps would become death camps
Camps had huge gas chambers that could kill up to 6,000 people a day
Auschwitz was the largest and most notorious of the camps
Events that led to the Holocaust:
Mein Kampf → Propaganda Against Jews → Nuremberg Laws → Kristallnacht →Deportation to Ghettos →The Final Solution

4. Jewish Resistance
Oskar Schindler was one of the best examples of resistance
Using his position as a Nazi businessman he was able to save thousands from extermination camps by having them work
Other Jews also resisted the Nazis:
1943: Jewish uprising at Treblinka, many Jews escaped but eventually recaptured by SS
: Auschwitz : Gartner & Robota help organize the resistance and smuggled in gunpowder but ultimately failed