the holocaust description history victims concentration camps liberation and beyond
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The HolocaustThe HolocaustDescriptionHistoryVictimsConcentration CampsLiberation and Beyond
DescriptionDescription
What is The Holocaust?What is The Holocaust?Holocaust was originally a Jewish term
that meant "a burnt sacrifice offered to God"
Now refers to the systematic annihilation (complete removal) of European Jews and other minority groups by Nazi Germany
HistoryHistory
TimelineTimelineThe Holocaust is considered to have
taken place between 1933-1945World War II officially took place
between 1939-1945
1933 Hitler comes to power, along with his Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers
1933 “Nuremberg Laws” make Jewish people second class citizens and Jewish businesses are boycotted
1933-1935 plans to reduce genetic inferiors by sterilization
1933-1939 minorities are sent to concentration camps
1937-1939 Jews are not allowed to attend public schools or theatres, and could not live or even walk within certain sections of town
Plundered items from Jewish homes
1938 During Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), Jews are arrested, and their homes and synagogues are destroyed
1939 Germany invades Poland, start of WWII, Germans view Polish as subhuman
1942-1944 Polish Jews sent to extermination camps
May 1945 Defeat of Nazi Germany
VictimsVictims
“While not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims.”
“While not all victims were Jews, all Jews were victims.”
~Elie Wiesel
Gestapo beating a Jew
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
~Elie Wiesel
Other minorities targetedOther minorities targetedPhysically handicappedMentally handicappedGypsiesHomosexualsJehovah’s Witnesses
Gypsies in Concentration Camp
“Wartime was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill.”
“Wartime was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill.”
~Adolf Hitler
ChildrenChildrenDid not escape the terror 1 ½ million Jewish and minority
children were murdered
Jewish child in Ghetto
Children being deported
Concentration CampsConcentration Camps
Women and children were usually seen as useless
Only those who could work or perform jobs were kept alive
Those who were allowed to live were disinfected and their heads were shaved
Many were killed in the “poison gas” showers
Crematory from Concentration Camp
Men in Concentration CampWiesel is in this picture
Glasses of those murdered in Concentration Camp
Sorting through clothes of people murdered in concentration camp
Mass Grave
Mass Burning
“Indifference makes that person dead before the person dies.”
“Indifference makes that person dead before the person dies.”
~Elie Wiesel
LiberationLiberation
Most people had few family members left
Many people left Germany and Poland for other countries
Some went to “Displaced Persons” camps
Liberation from a Concentration Camp
Removal of the Nazi Symbol after Liberation
Elie Wiesel 1928-Elie Wiesel 1928-
1986 won Nobel Peace PrizeCurrently a professor at Boston
UniversitySurvived Auschwitz and BuchenwaldPublished Night, a memoir of his time
in the concentration camps, in 1960.
(Left) Wiesel at age 15, (Right) Wiesel in Concentration Camp
Oprah’s interview with Elie WieselOprah’s interview with Elie Wiesel
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