Holocaust Overview

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Holocaust Overview

• Intro to
• Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl

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1933

• Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
• The first anti-Jewish laws are established.
• The Franks decide that the family must move to
  the Netherlands.
• First concentration camp opened.
• Jewish businesses boycotted.
• Undesirables sent to camps.

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1934-1935

• Jewish persecution gets stronger.
• Nuremberg Laws designed to take away Jewish
  rights of citizenship and included orders that
• Jews are no longer allowed to be German
  citizens.
• Jews cannot marry non-Jews.
• Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.

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1938

• Austrian Jews persecuted
• Munich synagogue destroyed
• Jewish passports stamped with 'J'
• 9-10 November 1938 Kristallnacht,
• Night of Broken Glass (see LINK HERE and Below)
• 100 Jews were murdered 20,000 German and
  Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps
  Hundreds of synagogues burned and the windows of
  Jewish shops, schools, and homes all over Germany
  and Austria smashed.
• Jews fined one billion marks for the damage.
• Jewish children expelled from schools.

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1939-1940

• Austrian and Czech Jews deported to
  Poland.
• Yellow Star introduced.
• European Jews persecuted and many were sent to
  concentration camps.
• Auschwitz concentration camp opened .
• The Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off.
• There were around 400,000 Jewish people inside .

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1941-1942

• After the German invasion of Russia, the
  Einsatzgruppen (killing squads made up of German
  and Russian volunteers/soldiers) began rounding
  up and murdering Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews are
  murdered in two days near Kiev, alone.
• Reinhard Heydrich chosen to implement Final
  Solution. (for more on the Final Solution, see
  LINK and below).
• First Death Camp was opened at Chelmno.
• Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Summer 1942 Jews from all over Europe were sent
  to Death Camps.
• Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up
  notice to report for deportation to a
  forced-labor camp. The family goes into hiding
  the next day.

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Arrival at Camp

• Overfilled train to camp
• Gold teeth removed from prisoners mouths
• Crowds entering camp for the first time

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Camp Life

• Children used in medical experiments
• Ovens used to burn bodies (alive and dead)
• Barracks

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Mass Grave
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Camp Map You Are Here
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Additional Online Sources

• BBC (British Broadcast Company) Interactive Map
  of Europe and Holocaust
• Kristallnacht The Night of Broken
  Glass--History.com
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  entry--Final Solution
• A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz
• Full Documentary Dear Kitty
• Anne Frank.org--The Fate of the Women in the
  Secret Annex