The HolocaustOverview and Aftermath

Overview

· The Jewish population in Europe, starting in Germany would come under attack during the years ________________________

· Of the ______ million Jews that lived in Europe during this time the Nazis would murder over _____ million Jews

· This __________________ is known as the _________________

Timeline

· 1933 ____________ is appointed to ___________________

· 1933 _________________ is passed- giving Hitler the power to rule by ___________________________

· 1933 March Nazis open _________________________________________ near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhasen near Berlin in northern Germany, and ___________________________ for women.

· 1933 April Germans told to ______________________________________-

· 1934 The _____________________________ occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a ____________________________ (storm trooper) leadership

· 1935 ________________________ laws are passed

· Jew no longer allowed to be _______________________

· Jews not allowed to have __________________________________________

· Jews no allowed to _______________________________

· 1936 Jews banned from ‘___________________________’ jobs

· 1937 Jews banned from working in any __________________________________________

· 1938 ____________________________________________ Austrian Jews now persecuted all Jewish passports stamped with a Red _________________

· 1938 _________________________________________________

· Night of violence towards Jews

· 100 Jews murdered

· ______________________ sent to concentration camps

· ___________________________________________

· Jews forced to pay a fine for _____________________________

· 1938 Jews banned from __________________________________________

· Jews forced to close down and ______________________________________

· 1939German occupation of ___________________starts

· Germany invades________________________

· Jews in Poland and Czech begin to be ____________________________

· All Jews in Nazi controlled territory forced to __________________________________

· 1940 Germany invades ________________________________________________

· Persecution in these countries begins

· ______________________ opens

· ______________________Ghetto is sealed off in _______________________ Jews inside

· 1941 Germany invades ____________________

· All Jews now have to wear yellow star

· _________________________ deported to _____________________________

· Gassing of Jews start at __________________- first death camp

· 1942 Belzec Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz Death camps begin mass murdering Jews

· Mass deportation _____________________________________________

· 1943 Death camps at Chelmno and Treblinka finish their work – ______________________________________________________________________________

· 1944 ______________________________ begin to be deported to Auschwitz

· 1945 ____________ liberate ______________________

· British and American forces liberate western Concentration camps

Death toll of the Holocaust

· The single most important thing to keep in mind when attempting to document numbers of victims of the Holocaust is that _______________________________________ of those who perished exists anywhere in the world.

· What follows are the current best estimates of civilians and disarmed soldiers killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

· These estimates are calculated from wartime reports generated by those who implemented Nazi population policy and postwar demographic studies on population loss during World War II.

· National Holocaust Museum

Death toll

· Number of Deaths

· Jews: up to ______________________________

· Soviet civilians: around ____________________________ (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)

· Soviet prisoners of war: around _____________________ (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)

· Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around ___________________ (including between 50,000 and 100,000 members of the Polish elites)

· Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): ______________________

· People with disabilities living in institutions: up to _______________________

· Roma (Gypsies): ____________________________

· Jehovah's Witnesses: Around _______________________

· Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials: at least ____________________

· German political opponents and resistance activists in Axis-occupied territory: undetermined

· Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands (possibly also counted in part under the 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials noted above)

Jewish Loss by Location of Death

· With regard to the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust, best estimates for the breakdown of Jewish loss according to location of death follow:

· _____________________________ (including Birkenau, Monowitz, and subcamps): approximately _______________________

· Treblinka 2: approximately _______________

· Belzec: _________________

· Sobibor: at least ________________

· Chelmno: _____________________________________

· Shooting operations around southern German-occupied Poland (the so-called Government General): at least 200,000

· Shooting operations in German-annexed western Poland (District Wartheland): at least 20,000

· Deaths in other facilities that the Germans designated as concentration camps: at least 150,000

· Gas wagons at hundreds of locations in the German-occupied Soviet Union: at least 1.3 million

· Shooting operations in the Soviet Union: approximately 55,000

· Shooting operations and gas wagons in Serbia: at least _______________________

· Shot or tortured to death in Croatia under the Ustaša regime: 23,000–25,000

· Deaths in ghettos: at least _________________________________

Aftermath of the Holocaust

· Get into groups 5 or 6

· For each activity there will be a central question that your group must answer

· Along with the Central question, you will need to answer all the other questions.

· Areas to be discussed

· Where did they go?

· Holding Nazi high ranking officials accountable

· Impact on the World.