2.  Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune.  Human (Man-Made)Natural  WarHurricane  Oil spillFlood  HolocaustTsunami- tidal wave

3.  Who is likely to study human catastrophes ?Why?  What kinds of questions would people studying human Catastrophes want to answer?  How would the questions be different from questions that might be asked about natural catastrophes?

4.  This includes killing members of a group.  Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.  Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.  Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.  Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

5.  The word Genocide didn’t exist before the Holocaust. It was invented as away of explaining what happened.  The Genocide that occurred during the Holocaust is one of the reasons for the formation of the United Nations.

6.  The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of approximately 11 million people.  Approximately 6 million of those deaths were Jews.  The Holocaust is largely studied as a Jewish struggle because although Jews weren’t the only targets, every Jew was a potential target.  2/3rds of European Jews were killed.

7.  Hundreds of thousands of Sinta-Roma (Gypsies)  250,000 Physically or mentally handicapped  More than 3 million Soviet Prisoners  About 2 million Poles  Roughly A million Slavs that were targeted for slave labor  Thousands of Homosexuals, Communists, Socialists, Trade Unionists, and Jehovah’s Witnessess

8. Sources of Information:  Newspapers  Diaries  Photographs  Documentaries  Personal accounts from survivors and perpetrators  Artifacts

9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran is the worlds #1 denier of the Holocaust

10.  1. The number of deaths.  2. It helped inspire the creation of the UN.  3. Because it is so well-documented, studying the Holocaust and its causes can help to recognize and prevent future genocides.  4. It’s a part of history  5. Some still try and deny that it ever happened.