1. A Presentation by: Alexis, Ashyea, and Cameron
The Holocaust
A Presentation by:
Alexis, Ashyea, and Cameron

2. Basic Information Time Period: 1939-1945
Location all throughout Europe (mainly Germany)
Adolf Hitler was a German leader who claimed that all non-Aryans were the cause of the problems. He said that they needed to go. These people were the: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, communists, journalists, Jehovah’s witnesses, and handicapped people (or anyone else Hitler just didn’t like).

3. Definitions Genocide- mass murder of a group of people
Anti-Semitism- hatred of Jews
Aryan- people with blonde hair and blue eyes and full German
Nazi- Hitler’s German soldiers
Concentration camp- where people were starved, beaten, and forced to work as slaves
Ghettos- where Jews were forced to live at suffering hunger, poverty, diseases, and sickness

4. Key People Adolf Hitler- German leader
Anne Frank- wrote a diary of her experiences during the Holocaust (Otto Frank (father and only survivor of their family) published it after the Holocaust)
King Christian X- king of Denmark
Dr. Mengele- experimented on Jewish children medically and scientifically (he even tried to sew twins together to make Siamese twins)

5. Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was chancellor of Germany that believed the Aryans were a superior race.
He claimed that any non-Aryans were to blame for all of Germany’s problems.
His goal was to populate Germany with one “master” race of people. The Aryans.
Hitler himself didn’t even fit into this group.

6. Places Concentration Camps like Dachau Ghettos
Death Camps like Auschwitz

7. Events In Warsaw in April of 1943, there was a rebellion of Jews.
Liberation.
At the end of WW2, Germany knew that they were going to lose the war. A few days before Germany surrendered, Hitler committed suicide.
In 1945, 22 Nazi leaders were put on trial. 19 were found guilty and were killed.

8. Groups Targeted Jews Gypsies Homosexuals Communists Journalists
Jehovah’s witnesses
Handicapped people
Non-Aryans

9. End Results Over 6,000,000 Jews killed Over 10,000,000 deaths total
About 4,000,000 Gypsies, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and others were murdered

10. Technology in the Death Camps
Gas chambers
Ovens
Guns

11. Liberation
Survivors of the Holocaust were returned to their homes. Very few people survived this horrible and cruel time.

12. Importance
The importance of the Holocaust was a lesson. The lesson learned from the Holocaust is that humans are capable of more than we know. They can destroy a whole entire country! A whole continent! We should never let anything like the Holocaust happen ever again. Nobody should ever become as powerful as Hitler was during this time. This is a very important lesson in history.

13. Quiz Who was Adolf Hitler? What was the Holocaust?
When was the Holocaust?
How long did it last?
Who was Anne Frank?