The Holocaust: Historical Context for Night

English 11: World Literature

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Anti-Semitism

Nazi Persecution

• Red = Political

• Green = Criminals

• Blue = Immigrant

• Purple = Jehovah’s

Witness

• Pink = Homosexual, Sex

Offenders

• Black = Disabled

• Yellow = Jewish

Geography

Kristallnacht

Major Events Leading to the Holocaust

1933 – Nazi Party rules Germany; Hitler appointed

Germany’s Chancellor

1933 – Dachau concentration camp is built

1935 – Nuremburg Laws govern Jews in Germany

1938 – Kristallnacht; Jewish children expelled from German

schools

1939 – Germany invades Poland; WWII begins; Polish

Jews ordered into ghettos; “euthanasia” of disabled

begins in Germany

1940 – Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland;

mass murders of Jews begin

1941 – Einsatzgruppen begin systematic slaughter of Jews

Major Events Leading to the Holocaust

1941 – In 2 days, Einsatzgruppen kill 33,771 Ukranian Jews

1942 – “The Final Solution” is implemented; plan for mass

extermination of all European Jews

1942 – Death camps are fully operational; utilize gas

chambers to exterminate thousands of Jews during

peak operation; 6 million Jews are killed over a

5-year period

Important Figures

• Adolf Hitler

Important Figures

Joseph Goebbels

Important Figures

Albert Goering

Important Figures

Hermann Goering

(Göring)

Important Figures

Josef Mengele

Important Figures

Heinrich Himmler

Important Figures

Rudolf Hess

Concentration Camps

• Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Buna

• Buchenwald

• Death Camps (6)

were all located in

Poland

• 13 main camps with

over 500 satellite

camps

Night by Elie Wiesel