what hate can do the holocaust c. a. lawrence, 2001

What Hate Can DoThe Holocaust

C. A. Lawrence, 2001

Two Phases of Hatred

Phase 1 1933-1939 A Common Enemy : Re-Education Citizenship Rights? Violence Escalates

A Common Enemy Hitler blames Jews for problems of

Germany• Loss of WWI• German Economic Depression

Jews identified as a “race” –not a religion

• A New Education Begins

Save Germany from impurities• Aryan Virtues

Purify German Culture By Burning Books

Synagogues were used as storage warehouses. Jews were no longer

allowed to go to church

Violence Escalates With Systematic Invasions

The Night of Broken Glass

The first organized night of Nazi violence

Thousands arrested, including college professors, writers, doctors, etc.

Why would they arrest these people first?

How Would You Feel?

Synagogues burned all through Germany, Poland and other German Occupied countries

Thousands Arrested…

While Others Are Rounded Up…

And Some Are Left To Mourn.

Two Phases of Hatred Phase 2 (1939-1945)

World War II Declared (England and France)

Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps Gas Chamber Use Begins The Final Solution

Jews Are GatheredInto Ghettos

Ghettos Are Used to Segregate Jews Into Parts of the City

All Jews would live here, sometimes with three or

four families in one apartment

Food was scarce as well as medicine and clothing.

Jews were used in forced labor factories to produce for the Nazis.

Once ghettos would get too full, Jews would be “deported” to other

work camps.

Deportation to Various Concentration Camps

Most camps are run in the same order…

Prisoners arrive by Cattle Car

Once they arrived, they would be separate men from the women and

children

Or, they would be separated because they couldn’t work.

Prisoners were forced to undress and hand over personal

belongings.

Unfortunately, even those who were killed were robbed of their belongings. Even wedding rings.

These belongings were stored for the Nazis to use.

Prisoners were then shaved (all camps) and tattooed (in most).

Prisoners were then led to shower rooms, which were either really

showers or gas chambers made to look like showers.

Work Shall Make You Free

Resistance Movement

Resistance Didn’t Have to be Dramatic…

Resistance didn’t only include hiding Jews or smuggling them to Sweden (like Denmark)

Many snuck food into the ghettos Many mailed letters thrown from trains Blew up railroad tracks Underground newspapers and

organizations

Liberation

6 Million Jews Were Murdered…

But 3 Million JewsSurvived.

For The Living And The Dead,We Must Bear Witness