1. THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecutions and murders by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived “racial inferiority”: Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

2. PERSECUTION: The systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms. (Reported by World Magazine in November 2004)

3. Anti –Semitism Aryan Race
Anti-Semitism-Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism; discrimination against Jews.
Aryan Race
This was the name of what Hitler believed was the perfect race. These were people with full German blood, blonde hair and blue eyes.

4. Jews were a SCAPEGOAT
*For hundreds of years Christian Europe had regarded the Jews as the Christ-killers.
*After the First World War, hundreds of Jews were blamed for the defeat in the War. Prejudice against the Jews grew during the economic depression which followed.
*At one time or another Jews had been driven out of almost every European country. The way they were treated in England in the thirteenth century is a typical example.
*Many Germans were poor and unemployed and wanted someone to blame (a scapegoat). They turned on the Jews, many of whom were rich and successful in business.
A scapegoat is a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.

5. Between 1939 and 1945 six million Jews were murdered, along with hundreds of thousands of others, such as Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled and the mentally ill.

6. Percentage of Jews killed in each country
AUSTRIA 35%
POLAND 91%
USSR 36%
BELGIUM 45%
NORWAY 45%
LUXEMBOURG 55%
ROMANIA 84%
ESTONIA 44%
A Total of 6,000,000 Jews
YUGOSLAVIA 81%
HUNGARY 74%
LATVIA 84%
How did they manage to get together all these Jews to kills them?
How did they kill them when they had them?
To begin with there were concentration camps.
BOHEMIA 60%
LITHUANIA 85%
NETHERLANDS 71%
GERMANY 36%
GREECE 87%
FRANCE 22%

7. A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS.
There were concentration camps and death camps. If you went to a death camp the chances of coming out alive were virtually nil.
Even at concentration camps though you were likely to die from the appalling conditions.
Or, if you were very young, old, or incapable of hard labour, it was likely you would be transferred to a death camp too.
Anne Frank died at Belsen from Typhoid.
Leonard Leher's mother and sisters were sent to Sobibor.
YOU MAY ASK "WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE SENT TO PLACES LIKE THIS?"
THEY WERE CHILDREN JUST LIKE YOU. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS THEIR RACE AND THE RELIGION THEY FOLLOWED.

8. Death camps and Concentration camps
Death camp: Nazi extermination centers where Jews and other victims were brought to be killed as part of Hitler's Final Solution.
Concentration camp: A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps were greatly expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime. They grew rapidly through the 1930s as political opponents and many other groups of people were incarcerated without trial or judicial process.

9. 16 of the 44 children taken from a French children’s home.
They were sent to a concentration camp and later to Auschwitz.
ONLY 1 SURVIVED
HOW DID THEY KILL THESE INNOCENT CHILDREN, ALONG WITH THEIR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, FRIENDS ETC..
YOU WILL ALL HAVE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE WAY NAZiS GASSED THE JEWS.
A group of children at a concentration camp in Poland.

10. WHAT IS A VICTIM? WHAT IS A SURVIVOR?
A victim is somebody who is harmed or killed by another.
WHAT IS A SURVIVOR?
A Survivor is a person who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks; a person or thing that survives

11. Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp.
Before poison gas was used , Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment. Victims were dead by the time they reached the burial site.
THIS IS THE GAS THAT WAS INTRODUCED IN 1942.
JEWS WERE SENT INTO SEALED SHOWER UNITS ON THE PRETENCE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE SHOWERED. PELLETS WERE THEN PLACED INTO THE SHOWER HEADS AND GAS CAME FROM THE SHOWERS INSTEAD OF WATER.
15 MINUTES LATER THE SHOWER ROOM WOULD BE EMPTIED, BODIES WERE ALWAYS IN A PYRAMID SHAPE, PEOPLE TRIED TO CLIMB ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER TO ESCAPE THE GAS.
BEFORE THIS TYPE OF KILLING METHOD WAS INTRODUCED THOUGH A MORE PRIMITIVE GASSING METHOD WAS USED....
I DON'T KNOW HOW, OR EVEN WHY THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN, BUT IT SHOWS SOME MEN AWAITING DEATH ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR BURIAL PLACE.
DID THEY ALWAYS BURY THE DEAD?

12. Smoke rises as the bodies are burnt.
NO.
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE MURDERED GREW ESPECIALLY HIGH, NAZIS BURNED THE BODIES.
SO WHAT OTHER METHODS WERE USED TO SYSTEMATICALLY MURDER THESE PEOPLE?

13. Portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child who was among the 33,771 persons shot by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar, September, 1941.
THIS PICTURE TELLS US A LOT.
HER PARENTS ARE OBVIOUSLY WEALTHY ENOUGH TO HAVE HAD A PORTRAIT DONE, SO IT SHOWS US THAT THE STATUS OF THE JEWS DID NOT MATTER TO THE NAZIS. IT WAS NOT JUST THE POOR WHICH WERE KILLED.
THEY WERE KILLED REGARDLESS OF WEALTH OR STATUS, THEIR DEATH WAS DETERMINED BY RELIGION AND RACE.

14. Nazis sift through a huge pile of clothes left by victims of the massacre.
Two year old Mani Halef’s clothes are somewhere amongst these.
GIVES SOME IDEA OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
BUT WHY DID THE NAZI WANT THEM TO REMOVE THEIR CLOTHES?
WHAT DID THEY WANT WITH THEIR JEWELLERY, CLOTHES, EVEN HAIR?

15. Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn.
After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.
THESE PICTURES SHOW WHAT THEY WANTED.
WERE THE NAZI'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS?
DID THEY NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF ALLIED COUNTRIES DISCOVERED WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

16. In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million
In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million. Nazis ordered the bodies of those buried to be dug up and burned to destroy all traces. Why do you think they did this?
OBVIOUSLY TOWARDS THE END OF THE WAR THEY TRIED TO COVER THEIR TRACKS.
IT WAS NOT GUILT THOUGH AND THEY DID NOT DO THE WORK THEMSELVES. THEY MADE JEWS AND OTHER PRISONERS OF WAR DIG UP THE BODIES AND BURN THEM INSTEAD.
Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September of 1941.

17. WHY?
“Until September 14, 1939 my life was typical of a young Jewish boy in that part of the world in that period of time.
I lived in a Jewish community surrounded by gentiles. Aside from my immediate family, I had many relatives and knew all the town people, both Jews and gentiles. Almost two weeks after the outbreak of the war and shortly after my Bar Mitzvah, my world exploded.
In the course of the next five and a half years I lost my entire family and almost everyone I ever knew. Death, violence and brutality became a daily occurrence in my life while I was still a young teenager.”
Leonard Lerer, 1991
THIS PICTURE IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWS A FAMILY WHOSE LIVED THROUGH THIS AWFUL TIME.
WE WILL BE LOOKING AT A BOOK CALLED THE SOAPMAKER WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF A YOUNG POLISH BOY'S LIFE THROUGHOUT THE WAR.
AFTER ALL THAT HORRIFIC EVIDENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE SHOULD ONLY BE ONE QUESTION ON YOUR MINDS. A QUESTION WHICH WE WILL TRY TO ANSWER OVER THE NEXT FEW LESSONS....
(MOUSE CLICK) WHY.

18. STUDENT INPUT!
***I NEED A VOLUNTEER TO GIVE ME A SUMMARY OF WHAT THIS PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM THIS PRESENTATION?
HOW DOES THIS INFORMATION MAKE YOU FEEL?
WHAT PART STUCK OUT TO YOU THE MOST?
HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ADOLF HITLER NOW? WHAT KIND OF MAN WAS HE REALLY?
HOMEWORK: WRITE A 1 PARAGRAPH SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND ADOLF HITLER, MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE. WRITE THESE QUESTIONS DOWN SO YOU DON’T FORGET!...FINISH CINQUAIN POEM FROM CLASS.
WRITE THESE QUESTIONS ON THE BOARD FOR THEM TO COPY DOWN AFTER THE PPT IS GONE, MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES FOR SOME-LONGER THAN OTHERS.

19. WHAT IS A CINQUAIN POEM?
A Cinquain poem is a highly structured form of poetry. It requires a fluent and flexible writer. The format contains attention to word choice, word meaning, syllabication, and parts of speech, while at the same time expressing a meaningful message.
These poems are short unrhymed poems consisting of twenty-two syllables. They were distributed into 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables in five lines. This type of poetry was related to Japanese literary styles.

20. TRUE CINQUAIN FORMAT:
Line 1: Decide on a one word title (noun - person, place or thing). (2 syllables)
Line 2: Choose two words that describe your title (adjective – describes something). (4 syllables)
Line 3: Choose three words that tell you something that the title can do (verb – action words). (6 syllables)
Line 4: Choose a four words phrase that describes a feeling about your title. (8 syllables)
Line 5: Think of one word that refers back to your title (synonym – a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language). (2 syllables)
*Syllable – A unit of sound composed of: a central peak of sonority (usually a vowel), and the consonants that cluster around its central peak. (clap to see how many syllables a word has).

21. EXAMPLES: Snowman Chubby, cheerful Waiting, grinning, winking
Icy weather keeps him smiling
Frosty
Penny
Round, smooth
Tossing, flipping, shining
Make a special wish
Lucky