THE HOLOCAUST Pastor Martin Niemoller (victim of the Nazis) “First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew. Then they.

THE HOLOCAUST

Pastor Martin Niemoller (victim of the Nazis)“First they came for the Jews

and I did not speak out-

because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists

and I did not speak out-

because I was not a communist.

then they came for the trade unionists

and I did not speak out-

because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left

to speak out for me.”

1935 Nuremberg Race Laws

M arry o r h av e sexw ith A rya ns

h ire A rya n w o m ena s m a ids

h a ve r ig h ts o fc i t izen sh ip

Je w s a re no t a llow e d to :

The Allies share responsibility- 1939

St. Louis – 907 Jews of all ages

Sign used during the anti-Jewish boycott: "Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don't buy in Jewish stores."

Germany, 1933

Antisemitic Boycott

Translation: “Don’t buy from Jews; Support German businesses!”

Kristallnacht

•1,668 synagogues were ransacked, and 267 set on fire•2,000-2,500 deaths were directly or indirectly attributable to the Kristallnacht pogrom

November 9, 1939

Jews forced to register and receiving their “papers”

The Yellow Star

The different symbols used to label camp prisonners

Construction of the wall surrounding Krakow

Jews await deportation to the Krakow ghetto

Later… evacuation of the Krakow Ghetto

Jewish citizens were forced in to cattle cars on the trains

Prisoners at a work camp

"The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch.

Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland at

one stroke."

- A Nazi newspaper, 1939

The gates to Auschwitz“Work will set you free”

Enormous collections of shoes and clothing symbolize the

dehumanization of Jews

Prisoner Bunkers

January 30th, 1939

“Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”

“Final Solution”

Reading from the United States Holocaust Museum- “The Final Solution”- http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007704

Mass graves

Death Marches

Dachau crematorium

6 000 000 Jews dead, 11 000 000 total

HISTORY- Taken from http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3581.htm The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was preceded by more than 50 years of efforts to establish a sovereign state as a homeland for Jews. These efforts were initiated by Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, and were given added impetus by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which asserted the British Government's support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

In the years following World War I, Palestine became a British Mandate and Jewish immigration steadily increased, as did violence between Palestine's Jewish and Arab communities. Mounting British efforts to restrict this immigration were countered by international support for Jewish national aspirations following the near-extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis during World War II. This support led to the 1947 UN partition plan, which would have divided Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under UN administration.

On May 14, 1948, soon after the British quit Palestine, the State of Israel was proclaimed and was immediately invaded by armies from neighboring Arab states, which rejected the UN partition plan. This conflict, Israel's War of Independence, was concluded by armistice agreements between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria in 1949 and resulted in a 50% increase in Israeli territory.

Genocides since the Holocaust

• Burundi 1972

• Cambodia 1975-79

• East Timor 1975 – 99

• Iraq 1988

• Bosnia 1992-95

• Rwanda 1994

• Sudan/Darfur 1983 to present