Chapter 16 Section 3

The Holocaust

Objectives:

Explain the reasons behind the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and the problems facing Jewish refugees.

Describe the Nazis' "final solution" to the Jewish problem and the horrors of the Holocaust

The textbook ties with the movie

1942 Gerda Weissmann 3M Jews in Poland sent to German labor camp

Separated from her family because of age

Married Kurt Klein from the movie

Persecution Begins 1933 Hitler ordered all non-Aryans

removed from government jobs Holocaust: the systematic murder of 11

million people across Europe Anti-Semitism: hatred of Jews. Jews

blamed for Germany’s economic problems

1935 Nuremberg Laws: Jews lose German citizenship, jobs & property

Persecution Begins Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass

or campaign against the Jews turns violent

Jews flee Europe but no other country wants or will accept them

U.S. brought in 100k of whom were Albert Einstein

St. Louis in 1939 turned away with 943 passengers

Hitler’s Final Solution Final Solution or Genocide: deliberate &

systematic killing of an entire population Other targets: communists, socialists,

liberals, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, mentally deficient, mentally ill, physically disabled, incurably ill

Ghettos: forced relocation in Poland cities

Ghetto Resistance

Some formed resistance movements, while others published underground

newspapers secret schools to continue educating

Jewish children, and kept alive various cultural activities,

such as theaterand music.

Hitler’s Final Solution

Concentration Camps originally set up for political enemies. Cycle of hunger, humiliation, work, and ends in death

The Final Stage

1942 camps murder using poison gas

6 death camps in Poland Cheerful music played and soap

distributed Huge crematoriums Medical experiments