THE HOLOCAUST

Robyn, Chelsey, Dustin & Jessie

 Some Background..
The holocaust was


led by the dictator

Adolf Hitler. The
Nazi party in
Germany in the
1930s/1940s
believed that
certain people but
mainly; Jews,
gypsies,
homosexuals and
the disabled were
inferior and didn’t
deserve to live.
 Reasoning Behind It
 The Nazi party was anti-Semitic which
means they hated Jews. Many Jewish
people were part and contributed a
great deal to the German society. Many
of them were doctors, lawyers,
bankers, teachers and business people.
Hitler blamed the Jews of Germany for
all economic problems when in reality
Germany was having a difficult time
because they had been defeated badly
in WWI.
 WWII

In march of 1938, Germany won

over Austria, and put harsh new laws
in place that stripped the Austrian
Jews of their rights. The
German Troops invaded Poland in
1939. This caused Poland’s allies
(great Britain and France) to declare
war on Germany, thus triggering the
start of WW2.

Within the next year, Hitler and his forces invaded and took over the European nations of
Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg . Then came the falling of France
leaving Great Britain to be overwhelmed by the German air assaults.
 Hitler’s goals
Hitler wanted to protect one thing, pure
German blood and honor. He called the
white, non-Jewish German’s “Aryans”.
He also wanted to eventually invade and

control all of Europe.

 Laws Hitler passed

 Hitler and his parliament passed

laws making Jews give up
their jobs, homes, their
businesses and their rights. To
make sure these laws were
enforced, a police
organization known as the
Gestapo along with the most
skilled army the “SS”
imprisoned , beat, even
murdered Jews, and for no
other reason than because
they were Jewish, if you
questioned Hitler and his
ways, you received similar
beatings. Many of these
people were sent to brutally
ran prison and concentration
 Ghettos

During the years

of the wars, the
Nazis, under
Hitler’s
demand,
created
ghettos.
Ghettos are
small sealed
areas inside
cities and in
Every this
monthcase,
tens of thousands of Jews were forced out of these ghettos and sent to
crowded
forced-labor and camps and also death camps, where unless their labor was
concentration
useful,unhealthy
they were killedliving
in gas chambers or murdered in some other way. This all comes
back toconditions.
Hitler’s “final solution” which is the Nazi plan to eliminate all Jews.
 Concentration/Extermination
Camps
 Between the years 1942 and 1945 concentration and
extermination camps were created all throughout
Europe. Extermination camps were solely dedicated to
the mass murder of Jewish and undesirable people yet
many people died in concentration camps as well. In
these camps the Nazis would do unspeakable things to
the Jewish people. They would seal infant’s mouths
shut so that they couldn’t nurse, just to see how long it
would take them to die. The Nazi’s would take pleasure
in riding on Jewish people’s backs. People in the camps
were beat, raped, skinned, tortured, murdered and
turned into slaves. They would perform sick and
inhumane medical experiments on the Jews. Many
people in these camps died in gas chambers or
incinerators. Very few of the people who went to these
camps survived.
Map of Concentration & Extermination Camps
 Auschwitz
Warsaw Ghetto
Concentration
Camp
Did everyone in Germany hate
the Jews?
 No, there were lots of
Non-Jewish
citizens who risked
their own lives to
rescue the
tortured beings.
There was also a
resistance army
who sabotaged
the German army
and helped the
Jews escape. The
resistance army
was know as “the
underground”,
“the resistance”
and/or “the
 Star of David.
 As country after Country fell
under Hitler’s occupation,
Jewish people were
singled out for being
mistreated and they lost
their rights. They were
forced to wear the six
pointed star of David, this
was considered to be a
symbol of Judaism. The
star was to be worn on
either the sleeve, chests
or backs so that they
could be easily noticed.
this star let others know
that you couldn’t walk
freely like Non-Jews, also
there were signs in
theatres and cafes,
restaurants and other
 Facts
 The Holocaust began in January 1933 and ended, May 18th ,
1945.
 There are approximately 500 survivors of all Nazi all death
camps.
 There was over a million non-Jewish victims killed during
the Holocaust.
 Approximately 1.5 million Jewish children were killed.
 Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp where the
lives of 1 million Jews was taken.
 Out of the 7000 staff members at Auschwitz only about 750
of them were ever punished.
 5000 Jewish communities were completely wiped out during
the Holocaust.
 As shown in our chart, over 6 million Jewish people were
murdered during the Holocaust which represented one
third of all Jews alive at this time.