The Holocaust

Over 13 million people killed by Nazi Germany.

Jews, Gypsies, Mentally and Physically Handicapped, Slavs,

Homosexuals, and Undesirables,

Kristallnacht“The Night of Broken Glass”

November, 1938

• German diplomat killed by German-born Jew

• 91 Jews were murdered

• 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps

• 267 synagogues were destroyed

• Thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked

• “Started” The Final Solution

Map of Different Camps

Some of the following photos may be upsetting...

Children at Auschwitzdeath camp

Auschwitz “Killing Room”Gas Chamber

Crematoria ovens at Buchenwald

Entrance to BirkenauConcentration Camp

Evidence of mass human destruction

Women about to be executed at a concentration camp

Men awaiting execution

Two Jewish students being humiliated in front of the class

• The black board says, “The Jew is our greatest enemy! Beware of the Jew!”

Burning Synagogue

Polish Jew being beaten

Shoes and clothes of Victims

“Night and Fog”

• French Documentary Film by Alain Resnais

• Made ten years after the liberation of Nazi camps

• Documents the grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek.

Your Assignment:

• Create a journal/diary as if you were a Holocaust survivor-Entries must be at least half a page long

• You must have at least 6 entries: 2 before you went to a camp, 2 while in the camp, and 2 dealing with liberation from the camp

• You are encouraged to include pictures, drawings, or artifacts from the Holocaust

• This assignment will be handed in and put into a “Scrapbook” by May 4th-Class time will be given