1. TeenzCollege Maastricht University The Holocaust History and Memory January 28, 2014 : History Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) Prof. Georgi Verbeeck

2. The Holocaust in History and Memory  Holocaust or Shoah : 6.000.000 Jews killed by Nazi Germany (genocide) How was it possible?  After 1945 Why keeping memories alive?

3. The “road to Auschwitz” : From ideology to industrial mass murder  1. Ideology (Anti-Semitism)  2. Discrimination and exclusion  3. Deportation to the ghetto’s  4. “Euthanasia” program  5. War on the Eastern front  6. Industrial mass murder

4. 1. Ideology : Anti-Semitism

5. 2. Discrimination and exclusion 1 and 7 april, 1933 : Boycott and “Aryan paragraph”

6. 2. Discrimination and exclusion 15 September 1935 : Racial laws

7. 2. Discrimination and exclusion 9 November 1938 : “Reichskristallnacht”

8. 3. Deportation to the ghetto’s 1 September 1939 : German invasion of Poland

9. 4. From eugenics...

10. 4.... to “euthanasia”

11. 5. Eastern front 22 June 1941 : War against the Soviet Union

12. 6. Industrial mass murder Chełmno - Bełżec – Sobibór - Treblinka

13. 6. Industrial mass murder Auschwitz

14. “Final solution” of the “Jewish problem”

15. Reign of destruction

16. 27 January 1945 Liberation of Auschwitz

17. 1945 : End of the Nazi regime

18. Remembrance “The memory of Europe’s dead Jews has become the very definition and guarantee of the continent’s restored humanity.” (Tony Judt, The House of the Living Dead, in : Postwar, 2006)

19. Remembrance

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