A Tragic Legacy The Holocaust
Dec 19, 2015
Literally means “sacrifice by fire”
The systematic mass slaughter of millions of Europeans, especially Jews, by the Nazis during WWII
11 million victimsThe largest group targeted by the Nazis
were Jews (6 million)
What is the Holocaust?
Who Were the Other Victims?
•Homosexuals
•Gypsies
•The Disabled
•Political dissidents
•Poles
•Jehovah’s Witnesses
•Catholics
•Soviet Prisoners of
WarMemorial to homosexual victims of the Holocaust
Occupied Territories
Treblinka opened in Poland in 1943
This was an extermination camp
These rails once led prisoners into the camp