The Holocaust

Mike Goveia, Estelle Guerineau,

Brian Ingram, Garret Hanson

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The Holocaust Begins1933• The Nazi party takes power in Germany. Adolf Hitler

becomes chancellor,or prime minister of Germany.• Nazis 'temporarily' suspend civil liberties of the

Jews

1935• Jews are deprived of their citizenship and other

basic rights. • Jews had to wear a bright yellow star on their

clothing.*

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The Holocaust cont.• Isolating the Jews

-Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invades Poland.

-Segregated cities in Poland that Hitler wanted Jewish people to emigrate to were called ghettos.*

-Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland.

-Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland.

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Hitler’s “Final Solution”- Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the genocide, the

systematic killing of an entire people.*

- Jews are put into concentration camps. (1940)

- Chelmno, the name of the first concentration camp that opened.*

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Final Stage: Mass Extermination

• 1941

-◦Germany attacks the Soviet Union.-Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos.

• 1943

-About 80 to 85 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already been murdered.

• The Survivors

-Around 4 million Jewish people survived the Nazi holocaust concentration camps?

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Vocabulary• Aryans: The Germanic People; Proclaimed by Nazis

to be the “master race”• Holocaust: The mass slaughter of civilians,

especially Jews• Kristallnacht: November 9, night when Nazis

systematically smashed Jewish shop windows• Ghettos: segregated Jewish areas, extremely

overcrowded• Genocide: the systematic killing of an entire people• The “Final Solution”: Hitler’s direct plan of action to

kill the Jews faster than starvation and disease.

Ch. 16 Sect. 3 Questions The Holocaust

1. To make it easier for Nazi’s to recognize Jews, what were the Jews supposed to have on?

A) swastika symbolB) yellow starC) golden necklaceD) the letter “J” that stands for Jewish

2. Segregated cities in Poland that Hitler wanted Jewish people to emigrate to were called…

A) clubsB) concentration campsC) non- Aryan townsD) ghettos

3. What was Hitler’s “Final Solution” plan for the Jewish people?A) the genocide of their raceB) Nazi soldiers dropping bombs on the ghettosC) He wanted them to be released into another countryD) He gives them back their freedom

The Holocaust Questions cont’d

4. What was the name of the first concentration camp that opened?

A) ChelmnoB) AuschwitzC) Slave Labor PrisonD) The SS

5. Around how many Jewish people survived the Nazi holocaust concentration camps?

A) 6 million B) fewer than 1 millionC) fewer than 4 millionD) 2.5 million