THE HOLOCAUST

WHEN AND WHERE?

• The Holocaust began in the year 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
• It ended in the year 1945 when the nazis were defeated by the allied powers.

WHAT IS "HOLOCAUST"?

• The term "Holocaust" comes from the Greek word "Holokauston".
• It means "sacrifice by fire".
• This is what the nazis persecution was called.

WHAT ARE "NAZIS"?

• The term "Nazi" is an acronym.
• It stands for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterparter"
• These "Nazis", led by Adolf Hitler were the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

THEIR TARGETS

• In addition to Jews, Nazis targeted gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses,
• twins, communists, and the disabled, for persecution.
• Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.

THE BOYCOTT

• On April 1, 1933 the Nazis instigated their first action against German Jews.
• They announced a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses.

THE NUREMBERG LAWS

• On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg laws were issued.
• These laws excluded Jews from public places, like parks, and took away their citizenship.
• They were also fired from civil service jobs and not allowed to marry non-jews.
• Jewish doctors were not allowed to work on anyone other than Jewish patients.

NAZI CAMPS

• Hitler's prisoners were kept in what many people refer to nazi camps.
• There were actually several different types of camps.
• Theses include:
• Concentration, extermination, labor, prisoner-of-war, and transit camps.
• Each of these had differnet purposes.

CAMP'S PURPOSES

• Concentration camps were ment to work and starve prisoners to death.
• Extermination/death camps were for killing large groups of people at a time
• When they took them to these camps, they were told to undress for a shower.
• Instead of a shower, they were taken into gas chambers and killed.

LIFE IN THE CAMPS

• Life in the concentration camps was horrible.
• Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor.
• They slept three or more people per bunk without a mattress or pillow.
• In some camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on the prisoners.
• These expirements were done against their will.

THE BIG NUMBERS

• It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the holocaust.
• Approxamately two thirds of all Jews living in Europe, about six million, were killed.
• About 1.1 million of these 11 million killed were children.

CITATIONS

• Dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-holocaust
• Rosenberg, Jennifer. History1990s.about.com
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Holocaust". Holocaust Encyclopedia
• www.ushmm.org