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Mr. Weiss

The Holocaust

1.1.List five facts you List five facts you know about the know about the

Holocaust.Holocaust.

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The Holocaust MythThe Holocaust Mythby Bruce Hagen by Bruce Hagen Thursday December Thursday December 15, 2005 at 03:03 AM15, 2005 at 03:03 AM

http://utah.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/12654_comment.php

There are people There are people who deny the who deny the

Holocaust ever Holocaust ever happened, as there happened, as there

are people who are people who deny all genocides. deny all genocides.

This is why it is This is why it is crucial you learn the crucial you learn the

facts!facts!

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Major Major Genocides of Genocides of

the 20the 20thth Century – Century –

The Century The Century of Genocideof Genocide

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Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.

Article 1The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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GenocideGenocideThere are four kinds of people in every

genocide:

1. Perpetrators:Perpetrators: people committing genocide

2. Victims:Victims: the people who the perpetrators are committing acts of genocide on

3. Bystanders:Bystanders: the people who stand by and just watch the genocide.

4. Upstanders:Upstanders: the people who stand up to the perpetrators and try to stop the genocide. (One of the key questions is how do we turn bystanders into upstanders.)

Dr. Roger Smith

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The HolocaustAdolph Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi

Party (2:50)

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The HolocaustHitler’s Speech to the German State

(5:39)

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The Holocaust – In Memoriam – (10:05)

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Prewar photograph of three Jewish children with Prewar photograph of three Jewish children with their babysitter. Two of the children perished in their babysitter. Two of the children perished in

1942. Warsaw, Poland, 1925-1926. 1942. Warsaw, Poland, 1925-1926.

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Portrait of members of a Hungarian Jewish family. They Portrait of members of a Hungarian Jewish family. They were deported to and killed in Auschwitz soon after this were deported to and killed in Auschwitz soon after this

photo was taken. Kapuvar, Hungary, June 8, 1944.photo was taken. Kapuvar, Hungary, June 8, 1944.

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A Jewish family in the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto. A Jewish family in the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto. All those pictured died in the Holocaust. Poland, All those pictured died in the Holocaust. Poland,

1940.1940.

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The HolocaustThe Liberation of Auschwitz

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Soon after liberation, a Soviet physician examines Soon after liberation, a Soviet physician examines Auschwitz camp survivors. Poland, February 18, Auschwitz camp survivors. Poland, February 18,

1945.1945.

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American military personnel view corpses in the American military personnel view corpses in the Buchenwald concentration camp. This photograph Buchenwald concentration camp. This photograph

was taken after the liberation of the camp. was taken after the liberation of the camp. Germany, April 18, 1945.Germany, April 18, 1945.

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Piles of shoes that belonged to prisoners killed in Piles of shoes that belonged to prisoners killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland,

wartime.wartime.

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A mass grave soon after camp liberation. Bergen-A mass grave soon after camp liberation. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, May 1945.Belsen, Germany, May 1945.

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““Such things happen – not so much Such things happen – not so much because of what bad people do, but because of what bad people do, but because good people stand by and do because good people stand by and do nothing.” nothing.” AnonymousAnonymous

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““The only thing necessary for the The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”do nothing.”

Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke

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““In Germany first they came for the communistsIn Germany first they came for the communists

And I did not speak out-And I did not speak out-

Because I was not a communistBecause I was not a communist

Then they came for the JewsThen they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out-And I did not speak out-

Because I was not a JewBecause I was not a Jew

Then they came for the trade-unionistsThen they came for the trade-unionists

And I did not speak out because I was not a trade-unionistAnd I did not speak out because I was not a trade-unionist

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Then they came for the CatholicsThen they came for the Catholics

And I did not speak out-And I did not speak out-

Because I was ProtestantBecause I was Protestant

Then they came for meThen they came for me

And there was no one leftAnd there was no one left

To speak out for me.”To speak out for me.”

Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)

A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.

Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)

A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.

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Nobody wants to take responsibility for the guilt. Nobody Nobody wants to take responsibility for the guilt. Nobody admits to guilt but instead points to his neighbor. Yet, guilt admits to guilt but instead points to his neighbor. Yet, guilt exists, there is no doubt about it. Even if there were no other exists, there is no doubt about it. Even if there were no other guilt than that of 6,000,000 clay urns, the ashes of burnt Jews guilt than that of 6,000,000 clay urns, the ashes of burnt Jews from all over Europe. And this guilt weighs heavily on the from all over Europe. And this guilt weighs heavily on the German people and on the German name and on all of German people and on the German name and on all of Christendom. These things happened in our world and in our Christendom. These things happened in our world and in our name…I regard myself as guilty as any SS man.name…I regard myself as guilty as any SS man.

Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)

A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.

Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892 – 1984)

A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was A leader of the church’s opposition to Hitler. He was interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 – 1945.

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Six million people were wiped off the face of Six million people were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is danger that they will the earth. And there is danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?

Six million people were wiped off the face of Six million people were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is danger that they will the earth. And there is danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?

Rabbi Abraham Joshua HeschelRabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosopher, Theologian and TeacherPhilosopher, Theologian and Teacher

Rabbi Abraham Joshua HeschelRabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosopher, Theologian and TeacherPhilosopher, Theologian and Teacher

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