The Holocaust

VOCABULARY

Adolf Hitler-Dictator who controlled Nazi Germany

from 1933-1945.

Fascism-A form of totalitarian government that promotes

extreme nationalism.

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VOCABULARYHolocaust

A period from1941-1944 when the Nazis murdered 6 MILLION Jews, and other innocent victims.

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“The Failure To Help”• The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable

for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees. The United

States turned them away.

What do YOU think the US should have done?

Stage 1-Discrimination of Jews

• Through propaganda- they portrayed the differences between Germans and Jews, and the inferiority of Germans.

Stage 1-Discrimination of Jews

“The cheating Jew” “Jewish Cruelty” “The Jewish God is Money”

Stage 2- Isolation from society once labeled as a Jew

• Jews were not allowed to attend German schools or universities.

• Many people stopped being friends with Jews as they were not allowed to socialize.

• Through the economy, Jews were excluded from civil service and Jewish businesses were taken over by Germans.

A motorcyclist on a village outskirts takes in a sign proclaiming “Jews are not welcomed here,” circa 1935.

These storm troopers are outside Israel’s Department Store in Berlin. The signs read: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews."

The store was ransacked during Kristallnacht in 1938, then handed over to a non-Jewish family.

Ghettos- were walled off areas where Jews were forced to live.

Stage 3 concentration camps

• Camps where Jews were sent to work and to be killed.

Gate at Auschwitz

“Work Will Make You Free”

Arriving at Auschwitz: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp

Stage 4- Mass Murder

• It is estimated that the Nazis murdered approximately 11 million innocent civilians during WWII.

• People died mostly through shooting, suffocation in gas chambers, and imprisonment in labor and death camps.

• 2/3 of the entire Jewish population was killed by the Nazis.

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Response

Haiku"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry.  Haiku poems consist of 3 lines.  The lines rarely rhyme.

First line is 5 syllables

Second line is 7 syllables

Third line is 5 syllables

Here's a Haiku to help you remember:

I am first with five

Then seven in the middle –

Five again to end.

Survivor Videos

• http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/