Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.

Key words

• Universal & inalienable • Interdependent & indivisible• Equal & non-discriminatory • Inherent?

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BEFORE 1939: (The Holocaust)

• World War 1: 1914- 1918• Germany is very poor- Hitler becomes leader of Nazi

Party with promises of rebuilding Germany• Hitler releases anti-Jewish propaganda • Jews are banned from teaching jobs & government

jobs and from owning businesses & owning land• The first concentration camps are created

Anti-Jewish Propaganda

BEFORE: Hitler’s Ideology• Believed all problems in the world were

caused by race• Believed people could be classified by race• Believed his Aryan race (blonde hair, blue

eyes) was superior to all other races • To define race, Hitler placed positive

stereotypes on the Aryan race & negative stereotypes of the Jewish people

• Believed there could be no inter-marriage b/w Jewish people & ‘Aryan’ people

BEFORE: Leading up to the Holocaust

• Sept 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Laws Passed: defines Jews as non-German & strips them from any rights. Jews are no longer considered German citizens. Jews prohibited from marrying Aryans. (Aryan is defined as a person of Germanic heritage with blond hair and blue eyes.)

BEFORE: Leading up to the Holocaust

• Nov 9, 1938- “Night of the Broken Glass”: In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police stood by. This day became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets.

“Night of the Broken Glass”

“Night of the Broken Glass”

DURING: WW2 Begins• Germany invades Poland & neighbouring

countries, BOOM! WW2 begins!• Britain & France declare war on Germany and

Canada joins the war• Hitler’s Nazi Party begins resettling Jewish

people into ghettos to eventually lead them to concentration camps

• Concentration camps created in invaded countries- Poland, Czech Republic

During the Holocaust• German Jews are forced to wear yellow star on their coat • 1942- Hitler’s Nazi Party begins “The Final Solution” their plan

to exterminate all Jewish people

DURING: The Holocaust• 3.5 million Jewish people will die in these

extermination and concentration camps• A total of 6 million Jews are murdered during

the Holocaust • Of the 6 million, more than 1 million were

children• Not only Jewish people, but also people with

disabilities, gypsies (The Roma), homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Afro-Germans

Continued…

• Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Continued..• The Allied Forces (The United States, Canada, France, Britain…) are able to win the war over Germany and liberate the Jewish people from the concentration camps

• Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945

AFTER: The Holocaust

• Oct 24, 1945 - United Nations is Officially Born.

• Nov 20, 1945 - Nuremberg International Military Tribunal: Nazi war crimes trials begin.

• International Criminal Court for people who violate other groups of people’s human rights [genocide, terrorism, crimes against humanity (think Kony)]

AFTER: The Holocaust• December 10, 1948 the United Nations

Declaration of Human Rights is signed by the member countries

• December 10th is International Human Rights Day!

• Our friend Eleanor Roosevelt helped create this document

AFTER: The Holocaust• Many Jewish survivors remained fearful of their

lives• Many European people remained racist

because they were led to believe that Jewish people were terrible human beings

• Many immigrated to the countries that liberated them

• Jewish Refugee Camps or Displaced Peoples Camps were established to help find loved ones, help Jewish people find new homes, etc.

Friendly Canada?.. Not so much

• Frederick Charles Blair, the director of the Immigration Branch was quoted as saying “None is too many” as Canada accepted fewer than 5000 Jews from 1933 to 1945. In 1939, a ship carrying 1000 Jewish refugees was refused entry and forced to return to Germany.