Hitler

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The Holocaust
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The Holocaust

• Nazis propose new racial order
• Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples
• All non-Aryans were inferior especially Jewish
• Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other
  groups
• (Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans,
  Mentally-Handicapped)
• Holocaust begins
• Jews became targets of German failures
• Nuremberg Laws- took away rights of Jews
• Citizenship, marriages

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night of broken glass

• German diplomat shot in Paris
• By Grynszpan for revenge of father being
  deported to Poland
• Germans launch attack on Jews
• This night will be known as kristallnacht
• Kristallnacht became a major policy of Jewish
  persecution
• Flood of Refugees
• Jews will flee Germany
• Hitler called it a Jewish problem
• Other countries will turn down the influx of
  Jewish immigrants
• Isolating the Jews
• Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated
  Jewish areas
• Ghettos were then sealed off with barbed wire
  stone walls
• Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos
• Jews will struggle to keep traditions

Hitlers Impatience
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The Final Solution

• Hitler grows impatient
• Plan- final solution becomes plan for genocide-
  mass killing of entire people
• Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan
  race
• Killings begin
• Hitlers SS will hunt down Jews
• Shot prisoners in pits
• Jews not reached by killing squads went to
  concentration camps
• Final Stage
• Extermination camps built with gas chambers
• Auschwitz- largest of the camps
• The Survivors
• 11 million will die (6 million Jews)

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Identity Card activity

• Take a few minutes to read the identity card you
  were given.
• Think about that persons journey through the
  war.
• How would you respond in their situation?

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Irena Sendler

• As a young non-jewish woman in Poland she joined
  a force of women working in the Warsaw Ghetto.
• She would deliver food, medicine and other
  necessities on a daily basis to the prisoners in
  the ghetto.
• While there she would convince Jewish parents to
  send their children with her.

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• She would keep careful records of their names as
  well as the parents.
• She would then work to get them temporary
  identities and arrange for them to live in
  non-Jewish people.
• She would burry the information in jars in a
  neighbors back yard.
• She worked to save over 2500 children before
  being arrested by the Nazis.
• She escaped from prison and avoided the Nazis for
  the remainder of the War.
• After the war she worked to reunite the children
  with any surviving relatives.