Do Now

Do Now

1) Why do you think Hitler targeted the Jews?

2) Why do you think so many Germans went along with Hitler’s

plans?

Reminders

• News Article Analysis due FRIDAY!

9.3- Jewish Persecution

• The Nazi’s killed nearly 6 million Jews and million of other people during the Holocaust.

• Shoah- Hebrew term for the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews before and during World War II.

• The Nazis persecuted anyone who opposed them: disabled, homosexuals, Eastern European people.

• The Nazis’ strongest hatred was aimed at all Jews.

Nazi Persecution

• Nuremberg Laws- September 1935- took citizenship away from Jewish Germans.

• Banned marriage between Jews and Germans.• German Jews were deprived of their rights.

Kristallnacht

• Anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria on November 9, 1938.

• Kristallnacht- “night of broken glass”.• 90 Jews died, hundreds were badly hurt, and

thousands of Jewish businesses were destroyed

Jewish Escape

• Between 1933 and 1939 about 350,000 Jews escaped Nazi-controlled Germany.

• Some emigrated to the US but many became trapped in Nazi-dominated Europe because they could not get visas to leave.

The Final Solution

• January 20, 1942- Nazi leaders decided on the “final solution” for Jews and other “undesirables”.

• Final Solution- The plan to round up Jews and take them to concentration camps.

• These were detention centers where healthy individuals worked as slave laborers.

• The elderly, sick, and young children were sent to extermination camps to be killed in large gas chambers.

• Most concentration camps were build in Poland and thousands of Jews were killed each day.

Guided Practice

• Map Explanation

Independent Practice• 1) Label the map using the activity.• 2) For each location- write down the name of

the place and a short sentence explaining why it was important (what happened there?).

Homework

• News Article Analysis due FRIDAY!

Exit Ticket

• 1) What was the Holocaust?• 2) Why do you think most of the

concentration camps were found in Poland and not Germany?