THE HOLOCAUST

NUREMBERG LAWS

• Passed on Sept. 15, 1935
• The first law excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship
• The 2nd law prohibited Jew from having sexual relations with "German related blood"
• Those who weren't recognizable as Jews were given a red J on their identification cards

HITLER

• Dictator of Germany from 1933-1945
• Vowed to extinguish all Jews in his policy called final solution
• Appointed ss soldiers to man the Jewish ghettos where they would break into people's homes at night and send families away to concentration camps

THE GESTAPO

• In charge of hunting Jews
• Supervisors and guards of the ghettos while imposing forced labor
• Operated without any limitation from the civil authority
• Under control of Heinrich Himmler

AUSCHWITZ

• Largest Nazi concentration and death camp
• Contained gas chambers, incinerators, and big ditches, all meant for Jewish bodies
• Instead of a big yellow star, prisoners were given tattoos with numbers as their new identity
• Industrialized Zyklon-B business because they were buying cans of gas by the crates

JOSEF MENGELE

• A physician for the ss
• Known as the angel of death
• Served as a medical officer who was responsible for birkenau's gypsy camp before taking the position of chief camp physician of auschwitz ii in November 1943
• Was responsible for the torture, experimentation, and eventual death of several camp prisoners

THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

• The 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland during wwii
• After German troops and police tried to kick the survivors out of the ghetto 750 people fought against Germans who were heavily armed and trained
• They put up a good fight, but eventually the Germans slowly crushed their resistance