Night:The Events That Shaped The Holocaust. Term 2

By Bobby Gagnon 12/16/2011

Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust

“I realized that most people were not aware of any other Holocaust victims except Jews.”

Of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens.

Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians and Catholics.

Non- Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Hundreds of thousands of other victims such as gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, disabled and mentally ill were killed.

The disabled and mentally ill were sent directly to be executed.

Non-Jewish victims were killed like they were a Jew.

The Evian Conference

The rise of Nazi government aimed to make Germany “clean of Jews”.

By 1938, about 150,000 German Jews had already fled the country.

After Germany seized Austria in March 1938, an additional 185,000 Jews were brought under Nazi rule. Many Jews were unable to find countries willing to take them in.

Dr. Josef Mengele

Born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg.

In 1937, Mengele joined the Nazi Party.

Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous for his inhumane medical experimentation upon prisoners at Auschwitz .

Mengele’s profession

In 1935, Mengele earned a Ph.D. in physical anthropology.

In the concentration camps, he was responsible for the selection of those fit to work and those destined for gassing.

Mengele also carried out human experiments on camp inmates.

Kristallnacht

The German Nazis destroyed Jewish houses and businesses.

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 and firemen stood by.

Babi Yar

In Kiev, the Nazis murdered approximately 100,000 people in a ravine named Babi Yar.

The killing began with a large group on September 29-30, 1941, but continued for months.

The Soviet army liberated Kiev on November 1943.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Between July and September 1942, the German officials deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews.

The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations.

The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto, while more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto in hiding.

Kindertransport and Lebensborn

Kindertransport was a rescue operation to save the children from the holocaust.

Kindertransport saved 10,000 children from the Nazi death camps.

The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms. Most of the rescued children survived the war.

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