The

Prejudice: An unfavorable (or favorable)

Words
preconceived
opinion or feeling formed

beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or

reason.

Discrimination: Treatment in favor of or

against, a person or thing based on the group,

class, or category to which that person or
thing belongs rather than on individual merit.

Racism: Hatred or intolerance of another

race or other races usually involving the idea

that one's own race is superior and has the
right to rule others.

Antisemitism

Prejudiceagainst,hatredof,
ordiscriminationagainstJewsas a
national, ethnic,religiousor racial
group.

AsJewsare an
ethnoreligious
group,
antisemitism is
generally
considered a form
of racism.

THE HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust was the

systematic,
bureaucratic, statesponsored persecution
and murder of
approximately 6 million
Jews by the Nazi regime
and it collaborators.
Holocaust is a word
from the Greek origin
meaning sacrifice by
fire.

The Holocaust

The Nazis, who came to power

in January of 1933, believed
that Germans were racially
superior and that the Jews,
deemed inferior, were a
threat to the so-called German
racial community.
The Nazis also targeted
Gypsies, Slavic peoples,
Jehovahs Witnesses,
homosexuals, political prisoners

The Final Solution

The Jewish population in Europe stood

at over 9 million.
By 1945, 2 out of 3 Jews were killed as
part of the Final Solution.
The Nazis use of nice language to
disguise the true nature of their crimes.

The

Final Solution refers to their

plan to annihilate the Jewish people.

Across Europe

The Jews, gypsies, political

prisoners, etc, were sent to
forced labor camps throughout
Germany and occupied Poland.
They were forced to work and
often died in deplorable
conditions.

The camps
Ghettos transit camps
Forced labor camps People forced
to work in deplorable conditions as
a form of punishment
Concentration camp to detain real
and imagined political and
ideological opponents.
Extermination camps where they
murdered in specially developed
gassing facilities.

Timeline - 1933

Adolf Hitlers Nazi party gains power and

control of the German government.

Nazi laws removes Jews from courts and civil

positions, limit number of Jews who can attend
universities, expel Jews from German cultural
life (movies, theater, etc)

Law require involuntary sterilization of mixed

race children, physically/mentally
handicapped.

Timeline - 1935

The Nuremburg Laws.

Prohibit marriage and extramarital
relations between Jews and non-Jews
Revoke citizenship and civil right of
German Jews
Forbid Jews to display the German flag.

Timeline - 1938

Must carry identification cards at all times.

Passports stamped Jew

Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)

November 9 a government sanctioned
night of anti-Jewish riots. Synagogues are
burned, homes looted, business destroyed,
Jews beaten, tortured, arrested or killed.

Continue - 1938

Approximately 30,000 Jewish men

deported to concentration camps.

Laws ban newspapers, journals

Expel Jewish children from schools,

theaters, museums, and other public
gatherings.

Close all Jewish businesses

Timeline - 1939

The Gestapo (a secret police force) assumes all

control of Jewish affairs.

Nazis invade Poland

Nazis round up 3 million Polish Jews and

confine them into ghettos.

Polish Jews are required to wear the Star of

David.

In Germany, the Nazis initiate a euthanasia

program to kill institutionalized and
handicapped patients who are deemed
incurable.

Timeline - 1940
Nazis

conquer Europe.

Anti-Jewish

policies are
imposed in Nazi-occupied
countries.

Timeline - 1941
Invasion

of the Soviet Union

The mobile killing units

exterminate Jews, Gypsies,
communists, and other
undesirables
More than 1 million people
are massacred.

Continue - 1941

Extermination camps with gas chambers

for mass execution are constructed in
Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chelmno
Belzec
Sobibor
Majdanek
Treblinka

Timeline - 1942

Nazi leaders adopt a policy of

mass execution as the final
solution of the Jewish question.

Deportation of Jews from Nazioccupied and Nazi-dominated

countries across Europe to the
extermination camps in Poland
begins.

Timeline - 1945
The

Nazis extermination
camps, concentration
camps, and forced labor
camps remain in
operation until Germany
surrenders on May 7.

NIGHT

LEO SCHNEIDERMAN

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Survivors reflection on arriving at

Auschwitz

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Literary memoir
Originally over 800 pages and
titled, Un di Velt Hot Geshvign
(and the world remained
silent)
Takes place between 1941-1945

Themes

Faith the struggle

Inhumanity, Dehumanization
Relationship b/n Fathers and
Sons

Night

Fire

Symbols

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