The Holocaust

1. Who?

Who are the victims of the Holocaust?

• Non Aryan people / mostly JewsWho were the members of the “master

race”?

• Aryans (a non-Jewish Caucasian, esp. of Nordic stock.)

2. What?What are the Nuremburg laws?

• German Laws depriving Jews of their rights

What happened on the night of Nov. 9, 1938?

• KristallnachtWhat was Hitler’s “final solution”?

• Planned killing of entire groups of non-Aryans

3. Where?Where did German Jews try to migrate

to find safety from Nazi terror?

• France, Britain, & U.S.Where were Jews forced to live in

German-controlled cities?

• Ghettos – segregated Jewish districts

Where were the concentration camps?

• Germany & Poland

4. Why?Why did Hitler believe that Jews & other

“subhumans” had to be exterminated?

• To protect Aryan “purity”Why did the Germans build extermination

camps?

• To eliminate large numbers of people

• Used gas (zyklon B), shootings, beatings, experiments, etc.

5. When?

When did the final stage of the “final solution” take place?

• Early 1942

6. How?How did non-Jewish people try to save

Jews from the horrors of Nazism?

• By hiding them or helping them to escape

How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

• Approx: 6,000,000