THE HOLOCAUSTBy: Kim Michal Photo Credits:

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Who was Adolf Hitler?

Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889

Hitler was the dictator of Germany

He became dictator in 1933

This is when it all began…

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Hitler (continued)…

“Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews…until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.”

-Adolf Hitler, 1922http://www.shoaheducation.com/endlosung.htmlPhoto Credit: http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/A/adolfhitler.jpg

What was The Holocaust?

Holocaust is literally defined as: “a sacrifice consumed by fire”

But most would define it as: the mass slaughter of European civilians,

especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II

Lasted from 1933-1945

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Who were the victims?

Jews Homosexuals Gypsies The Disabled Slavic Peoples Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Concentration Camps Prisoners were forced to go into concentration

camps Also called labor camps Some camps were called death camps Controlled by the Nazi’s

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Auschwitz

Auschwitz was the largest camp during the Holocaust

Prisoners were forced to give up all belongings

Children were often killed upon arrival Between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000

prisoners were murdered here

http://www.auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm

Auschwitz (continued…)

Auschwitz was located near the German-Polish border in Upper Silesia

The sign of the main gate here states “Arbeit Macht Frei”

This translates to “Work Brings Freedom”

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At the camps…

Prisoners were forced to do hard labor Prisoners were starved Forced to obey the Nazi’s, and were

murdered if they disobeyed Prisoners had no control of their own

lives Many prisoners died as a result of

incarceration and maltreatment

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The Victims…

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Camp Doctors

Nazi doctors tortured men, women, and children at death camps

Performed experiments on victims Victims were:

put into pressure chambers tested with drugs castrated, frozen to death http://www.shoah.dk/d

octors/

Camp Doctors (continued)…

Children were exposed to : Experimental surgeries without

anesthesia Blood transfusions from one to another Isolation endurance Injections of lethal germs Sex change operations Removal of organs and limbs

http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/

Josef Mengele

Known as Angel of Death Performed experiments on

twins: Carried out twin to twin

transfusions Stitched twins together Castrated or sterilized twins Organ and limb removalhttp://www.shoah.dk/doctors/

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Ways of Genocide

Gas chambers Cremation Starvation Malnutrition Torture Death Marcheshttp://www.scrapbookpages.com/mauthausen/Tour/PhotoTour03.html

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Liberation of the Camps Liberation began in 1944 Soviets liberated Auschwitz in 1945 U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald in 1945 Remaining camps were liberated in 1945 “Liberators confronted unspeakable

conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied”

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005131

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The Numbers

11 million prisoners were murdered

6 million victims were Jews Number of European Jews who survived:

3,546,211 Percentages:

Polish Jews killed: 91% German Jews killed: 36% Jews killed in Europe during war: 63%

http://www.jewishmag.co.il/109mag/holocaustnumbers/holocaustnumbers.htm

www.etni.org.il/holocaust/holocaust_numbers.doc

Words from Survivors…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ER1sRYDAYY&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJdqDuA9Vp8