1. Aviva Berkowitz Alex Scott James Statts Matt Lark
Holocaust
Aviva Berkowitz
Alex Scott
James Statts
Matt Lark

2. Key Points Timeline of events Victims U.S. Perspective
Controversy: What should U.S. have done?

3. Holocaust: 1933 Nazi’s take over Germany Hitler is chancellor
First concentration camp
Kids banned from school
Some Jews prohibited from working
Trade unions close
Nazi burn books b/c they disagree with ideas

4. Holocaust: 1934 Holocaust: 1935 Holocaust: 1936
Hitler has full control of Germany
Holocaust: 1935
Jewish basic rights are gone
Nazi’s get stricter about who are
“racially inferior”
Holocaust: 1936
Nazis target Jewish businesses
Olympic games- execution is put on ‘hold’

5. Holocaust: 1938 German troops annex Austria
Kristallnacht- “Night of broken glass”, synagogues burned
Jewish kids expelled from school in Germany and Austria
Nazis take full control of Jewish businesses

6. Holocaust: 1939 Germany takes over Czech and invades Poland
WWII begins (France and Britain invade Germany)
Mentally and physically disabled murdered
Jews are required to wear armbands w/ yellow stars

7. Holocaust: 1940 Holocaust: 1941 Jews are forced into ghettos
Nazis mass murder Jews in Poland
Germany conquers western Europe
Holocaust: 1941
Germany attacks Soviet Union
Death Camps in Poland are created (Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Nazis “Final Solution”- kill all Jews in Europe

8. Holocaust: 1942 Holocaust: 1943 Holocaust: 1944
US, Britain, and Soviet Union are aware of Germany
20-25% Jews in Concentration Camps died
Holocaust: 1943
80-85% Jews in Concentration Camps died
Holocaust: 1944
Hitler takes over Hungary
Deports Jews to Auschwitz

9. Holocaust: 1945 Holocaust: 1946 Holocaust: 1947
Hitler defeated in WWII
Holocaust is over
Death Camps emptied- survivors go to “Displaced Person Camps”
Holocaust: 1946
Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes and
crimes against humanity
Holocaust: 1947
UN establishes a Jewish homeland
which becomes the State of Israel in 1948