THE HOLOCAUST

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THE HOLOCAUST
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic,
state-sponsored persecutions and murders by the
Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is
a word of Greek origin meaning sacrifice by
fire. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in
January 1933, believed that Germans were
racially superior and that Jews, deemed
inferior, were an alien threat to the so-called
German racial community. During the era of the
Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other
groups because of their perceived racial
inferiority Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and
some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and
others). Other groups were persecuted on
political, ideological, and behavioral grounds,
among them Communists, Socialists and Jehovahs
Witnesses.
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PERSECUTION The systematic mistreatment of an
individual or group by another group. The most
common forms are religious persecution, ethnic
persecution, and political persecution, though
there is naturally some overlap between these
terms. (Reported by World Magazine in November
2004)
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Anti Semitism Anti-Semitism-Hostility toward or
prejudice against Jews or Judaism discrimination
against Jews.
Aryan Race This was the name of what Hitler
believed was the perfect race. These were people
with full German blood, blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Jews were a SCAPEGOAT
For hundreds of years Christian Europe had regarded the Jews as the Christ-killers. After the First World War, hundreds of Jews were blamed for the defeat in the War. Prejudice against the Jews grew during the economic depression which followed. At one time or another Jews had been driven out of almost every European country. The way they were treated in England in the thirteenth century is a typical example. Many Germans were poor and unemployed and wanted someone to blame (a scapegoat). They turned on the Jews, many of whom were rich and successful in business.
A scapegoat is a person or group made to bear the
blame for others or to suffer in their place.
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Between 1939 and 1945 six million Jews were
murdered, along with hundreds of thousands of
others, such as Gypsies, Jehovahs Witnesses,
disabled and the mentally ill.
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Percentage of Jews killed in each country
AUSTRIA 35
POLAND 91
USSR 36
LUXEMBOURG 55
NORWAY 45
BELGIUM 45
ROMANIA 84
ESTONIA 44
A Total of 6,000,000 Jews
YUGOSLAVIA 81
HUNGARY 74
LATVIA 84
BOHEMIA 60
LITHUANIA 85
NETHERLANDS 71
GERMANY 36
GREECE 87
FRANCE 22
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A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS
USED BY THE NAZIS.
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Death camps and Concentration camps
Death camp Nazi extermination centers where Jews
and other victims were brought to be killed as
part of Hitler's Final Solution.
Concentration camp A camp where civilians, enemy
aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes
prisoners of war are detained and confined,
typically under harsh conditions.
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps
throughout the territories it controlled. The
first Nazi concentration camps were greatly
expanded in Germany after the Reichstag fire in
1933, and were intended to hold political
prisoners and opponents of the regime. They grew
rapidly through the 1930s as political opponents
and many other groups of people were incarcerated
without trial or judicial process.
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16 of the 44 children taken from a French
childrens home. They were sent to a
concentration camp and later to Auschwitz. ONLY 1
SURVIVED
A group of children at a concentration camp in
Poland.
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WHAT IS A VICTIM?
A victim is somebody who is harmed or killed by
another.
WHAT IS A SURVIVOR?
A Survivor is a person who continues to function
or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or
setbacks a person or thing that survives
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Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas
pellets found at Majdanek death camp.
Before poison gas was used , Jews were gassed in
mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the
engines exhaust was fed into the sealed rear
compartment. Victims were dead by the time they
reached the burial site.
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Smoke rises as the bodies are burnt.
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Portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish
child who was among the 33,771 persons shot by
the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar,
September, 1941.
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Nazis sift through a huge pile of clothes left by
victims of the massacre. Two year old Mani
Halefs clothes are somewhere amongst these.
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Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz,
used to make felt-yarn.
After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a
stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at
Buchenwald.
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In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews
exceeded 1 million. Nazis ordered the bodies of
those buried to be dug up and burned to destroy
all traces. Why do you think they did this?
Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming
bodies in the ravine at Babi Yar, where the Nazis
had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September of
1941.
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Until September 14, 1939 my life was typical of
a young Jewish boy in that part of the world in
that period of time. I lived in a Jewish
community surrounded by gentiles. Aside from my
immediate family, I had many relatives and knew
all the town people, both Jews and gentiles.
Almost two weeks after the outbreak of the war
and shortly after my Bar Mitzvah, my world
exploded. In the course of the next five and a
half years I lost my entire family and almost
everyone I ever knew. Death, violence and
brutality became a daily occurrence in my life
while I was still a young teenager. Leonard
Lerer, 1991
WHY?
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STUDENT INPUT!

• I NEED A VOLUNTEER TO GIVE ME A SUMMARY OF
  WHAT THIS PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT.
• WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM THIS PRESENTATION?
• HOW DOES THIS INFORMATION MAKE YOU FEEL?
• WHAT PART STUCK OUT TO YOU THE MOST?
• HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ADOLF HITLER NOW? WHAT KIND
  OF MAN WAS HE REALLY?
• HOMEWORK WRITE A 1 PARAGRAPH SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU
  HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND ADOLF
  HITLER, MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE ANSWERS TO THE
  QUESTIONS ABOVE. WRITE THESE QUESTIONS DOWN SO
  YOU DONT FORGET!...FINISH CINQUAIN POEM FROM
  CLASS.

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WHAT IS A CINQUAIN POEM?
A Cinquain poem is a highly structured form of
poetry. It requires a fluent and flexible writer.
The format contains attention to word choice,
word meaning, syllabication, and parts of speech,
while at the same time expressing a meaningful
message. These poems are short unrhymed poems
consisting of twenty-two syllables. They were
distributed into 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables in five
lines. This type of poetry was related to
Japanese literary styles.
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TRUE CINQUAIN FORMAT
Line 1 Decide on a one word title (noun -
person, place or thing). (2 syllables) Line 2
Choose two words that describe your title
(adjective describes something). (4
syllables) Line 3 Choose three words that tell
you something that the title can do (verb
action words). (6 syllables) Line 4 Choose a
four words phrase that describes a feeling about
your title. (8 syllables) Line 5 Think of one
word that refers back to your title (synonym a
word having the same or nearly the same meaning
as another word or other words in a language).
(2 syllables) Syllable A unit of sound
composed of a central peak of sonority (usually
a vowel), and the consonants that cluster around
its central peak. (clap to see how many syllables
a word has).
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EXAMPLES
Snowman Chubby, cheerful Waiting, grinning,
winking Icy weather keeps him smiling Frosty
Penny Round, smooth Tossing, flipping,
shining Make a special wish Lucky