1. Systematic attempt to rid Europe of Jews
HOLOCAUST
Systematic attempt to rid Europe of Jews

2. Ideology
All Jews were evil no matter their religion, occupation, or education.
Defined a Jew as having at least one Jewish grandparent.
Aryan Supremacy.

3. Nuremberg Laws Segregation of Jews from society.
Anti-Semitism- Prejudice against Jews.
Removal of Rights
Took citizenship away from German Jews.
Banned marriages between Jews and Germans.
Prohibited a Jew from holding public office and voting.
Changed their names to “Jewish” names
Banned from practicing law, medicine, and operating businesses.
Boycott of Jewish stores.

4. Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass After the attack:
the streets were littered with broken glass
90 Jews dead
100s injured
1,000s terrorized
Police were forbidden to interfere.
7,500 business destroyed.
180 synagogues destroyed.
Gestapo (secret police)
Arrested 20,000 wealthy Jews

5. Life in the Concentration camps

6. The Final Solution/Genocide
15 Nazi leaders met to decide the Final Solution of the Jews.
Other methods of Genocide proved to be too slow.
New Plan
Concentration Camps
Healthy individuals could work as slaves until they dropped dead.
Extermination Camps
Many elderly, the infirm, and young children were sent here to be executed in massive gas chambers
1st camp established in 1933 to jail political opponents.
Rooms built to hold 50 but 150 were living inside.
Extermination Facilities were built inside camps to kill Jews efficiently.

7. Auschwitz Death Camp 100,000 people in 300 barracks.
Gas chambers killed 2,000 at a time
12,000 a day.
1.6 million estimated to have died.
1.3 million were Jewish.

8. Liberation Liberation of camps by Allies Soviet Union liberated
Auschwitz; January 1945
Baltic and Polish camps.
United States liberated
Buchenwald Camp in Germany April 1945
20,000 prisoners were liberated.
Britain liberated
Camps in Northern Germany.

9. Liberation