1. The Holocaust

2. The Holocaust Holocaust = Mass murder of people by Nazi’s
Aryans = Nazi’s claim they are the “Master Race”
Hitler singles out Europe’s Jewish Population (11 Million)
Kristallnacht = “Night of Broken Glass”
Jewish property destroyed
100 Murdered by Nazi Stormtroopers
Beginning of the Holocaust

6. Jewish Ghetto’s
Segregation = Separation of people based on race / religion
Segregated area’s within 3rd Reich for Jewish population
Biggest Ghetto was in Warsaw, Poland (500,000)
Characteristics of a Jewish Ghetto
Barbed wire / Stone wall surrounding area
Poor sanitation
Food shortage
Disease

11. The Final Solution Genocide = Planned mass killing of an entire people
Concentration Camps
“Labor” Camps
Largest = Auschwitz
Gas Chambers / Mass Graves
6000 killed a day
Medical experiments on humans
Crematoriums to burn bodies
Prisoners tattooed with numbers to identify them

16. Jewish Resistance
Many smuggled out into Switzerland, Great Britain, South North & South America
Issued visa’s / passports / identity papers by sympathetic govt. agents
Many living in Ghetto’s fight Nazi’s
Used Molotov Cocktails & stolen weapons
Sabotaged bridges
Acted as spy’s for Allies
Most famous uprising in Warsaw (1 Month)

18. The Effects of the Holocaust
6-8 Million European Jews murdered
Billions of Dollars in property / fortunes lost
Creation of Israel (Conflict in the Middle East)
German High School student’s required to visit a Concentration Camp before they can graduate