HOLOCAUST The Final Solution 1933 - 1945 HOLOCAUST RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6 MILLION JEWS 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (“INFERIORS” - SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLES, THE.

HOLOCAUST

The Final Solution

1933 - 1945

HOLOCAUST

• RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF 6 MILLION JEWS

• 4-6 MILLION OTHERS (“INFERIORS” - SLAVS, GYPSIES, POLES, THE INSANE, POLITICAL PRISONERS)

• ANTI-SEMITISM - LONG HISTORY IN GERMANY AND EUROPE

NUREMBERG LAWS - 1935

• BOYCOTTS OF JEWISH BUSINESSES

• VOTING RIGHTS DENIED

• FORCED FROM JOBS

• PASSPORTS STAMPED WITH “J”

• MARRIAGE TO ARYANS FORBIDDEN

• EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS

• STAR OF DAVID ON CLOTHING

KRISTALLNACHT - 1938

• “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”

• SHOPS DESTROYED• BUSINESSES LOOTED

AND BURNED• JEWS BEATEN• DONE BY POLICE

DRESSED AS CIVILIANS

WAR ESCALATES

• WAR AGAINST JEWS WORSENS

• TRAPPED AND ISOLATED

• MORE RESTRICTIONS

• FORCED INTO GHETTOS

• FORCED LABOR

• CONCENTRATION CAMPS

FINAL SOLUTION

• WANSEE CONFERENCE (1942)

• BELIEVED TO BE THE SITE OF THE PLAN TO ELIMINATE ALL JEWS IN EUROPE

• CODE WORDS - RELOCATION, WORK CAMPS, JEWISH PROBLEM

• GAS IS SUGGESTED - ZYKLON B - MORE EFFICIENT

THE PROCESS

• GHETTOS EMPTIED - TOLD THEY WERE GOING TO WORK CAMPS

• THOUSANDS DIED FROM EXPOSURE, HUNGER, DISEASE

• SOME SENT IMMEDIATELY TO DEATH

• GUARDS - TORTURED & HUMILIATED

THE PROCESS (CONT’D)

• WEAK WERE SENT TO “SHOWERS” WHERE THEY WERE GASSED

• SENT TO CREMATORIUMS (OVENS)

• GOLD FILLINGS, HAIR REMOVED

• PERSONAL BELONGINGS TAKEN

• HORRIBLE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (DR. JOSEPH MENGELE)

THE DEATH CAMPS

• Auschwitz (Poland) 2-2 1/2 million

• Chelmo

• Bergen-Belsen

• Mauthausen

• Sobibor

• Treblinka

Hitler and Goring

Jews Forced to Wear Yellow Star

A Star For The Children, Too

Deportation to Auschwitz

Train to the Death Camps

Dachau

Crematorium

Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

“Prisoners”

Bergen-Belsen

Buchenwald

Victims of Buchenwald

Buchenwald

Buchenwald

Liberation of Buchenwald

Mass Graves for Prisoners

Uncovered Grave

Crematorium

Liberation of Auschwitz

Liberation of Dachau

U.S. Soldiers Execute Nazis

Survivors!

Nuremberg Trials