24:3 Holocaust

Systematic Murder of more than 11 people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews

Anti-Semitism

• Scapegoat– Depression– WWI

• Nuremberg Laws• Star of David

Kristallnacht

• Nazi storm troopers• Night of broken glass• Property and murder• Jews blamed

Jewish Refugees

• Where to go? • Why didn’t other countries accept them?

Jewish Immigration to the U.S.

• Persons of exceptional merit• 100,000

SS St. Louis

• Miami• 943 returned to Europe

Hitler’s “Final Solution”

• Genocide• Preserve strength and purity of the “master

race”

Targets of the Holocaust

• Political targets• Inferior races• Freemasons• Jehovah’s witnesses

Unfit Part of the “Master Race”

• Homosexuals• Mentally deficient• Mentally ill• Physically disabled• Incurably ill

• The Homomonument in Amsterdam, a memorial to the gay victims of Nazi Germany.

• A memorial for Loge Liberté chérie, founded in November 1943 in Hut 6 of Emslandlager VII (KZ Esterwegen), one of two Masonic Lodges founded in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Security SquadronSS

• Heinrich Himmler• Elite Nazi death squads• Shot Jews on the spot

Ghettos• Sealed off sections of cities

• Starved• Industry work• Not efficient

Concentration Camps

• Operated by the SS• Forced labor• Conditions in the

barracks• Slaughter and

starvation

Auschwitz

1,000,000+

The Final Solution and Poison Gas

• Death camps• Gas chambers• SS doctors• Mass graves, pyres • crematoriums

Gas ChamberCrematorium

Medical Experiments• Josef Mengele• “Onkel Mengele”• “Angel of Death”• Sterilization• Sea water• Cold• twins

Elie Wiesel

Eliezer Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928) [1] is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps.Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind", noting that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps," as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace," "Wiesel has delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity.[2]

Anne Frank

• Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (pronunciation (help·info)) (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

• Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.

• The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the most renowned and most discussed victims of the Holocaust.