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Experiences of the Jewish and other victims of the HolocaustHitler decides that the Jewish race needs to be annihilated

1938 Begins with the deportation of immigrant and naturalized German people living in Germany

Uses trucks, trains and buses to transport back to Eastern Europe

ConditionsOnce they delivered to Eastern Europe they are left at the  border and with no resources.  

ResultsMany die due to exposure and starvation.

This is considered the beginning of the Holocaust.

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Kristallnacht ­ the Night of Broke Glass

Hershel Grynszpan was a student in Paris

His father was born in Poland but was a shop keeper in Hanover, Germany

Hershel is upset when he finds out about his parents' relocation and likely death.

Hershel purchases a gun and goes to the German Embassy in France.

Hershel shoots an officer at the Embassy who dies 2 days later.

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German propaganda used this as anopportunity to backlash against the Jewish people, inciting riots.

Homes ransackedBroke all Crystal (sign of middle class status)

Businesses lootedSynagogs destroyed

  

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Think about this...Why did Kristallnacht occur?

How many people died in the German Embassy?

How many people died being relocated out of Germany?

How many more people will die before WWII is over?

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Ghettos ­ Walls or locked gate around communities

Only way out is deathPoliced by other Jewish people

Led to corruption

Conditions:No food ­ malnutritionNo medicine ­ illnessesPersonal SufferingSuffering of loved ones

Why wouldn't they resist?Inability to fight due to malnutrition and fear, also the hope that this was the worst of it.

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The CampsConcentration • Labor Camps• Transit Camps• P.O.W. Camps

Extermination• Kill as many Targeted people as

possible

Some camps were both Concentration (labor) camps and extermination camps.

By the end of the war most Extermination Camps had both a gas chamber and a crematoria.

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There were 6 main extermination campsall located in Poland, each camp resembled an industrial center.

Each location was selected for 3 reasons

1. it was rural, meaning it had large areas where there weren't many people living2. close to railroads3. far from Germany where there was a lot of international attention

If the Nazis thought what they were doing was right, why hide in Poland?

Food for thought...

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Story of Nonna

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SelectionArrival at Camp

Families were split upSeparated by gender and age

Often occurred at nightAdded to confusion

People would have to turn over all belongings and documents, and strip naked.

Men would be killed first

Women were forced to have their heads shaved.

Most Women, Children and the elderly were killed.

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Concentration CampsSome were deemed able to work.These people were sent to labor camps and forced to work.

Many will still die as a result of:Malnutrition ­ only given 600 calories of food a day.

That is the equivalent of eating only king sized kit­kat a day!Illness ­ if you were too sick to work you either died from your 

illness or were executedWorked to death

The inmates were treated cruellyand inhumanely by the Nazi soldiers.

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Women in the campsMothers and pregnant women were often labeled as incapable of work.  Which meant execution.

“In both camps and ghettos, women were particularly vulnerable to beatings and rape. Pregnant Jewish women often tried to conceal their pregnancies or were forced to submit to abortions. Females deported from Poland and the Soviet Union for forced labor in the Reich were often beaten or raped, or forced to submit to sexual relations for food or other necessities or basic comforts. Pregnancy sometimes resulted for Polish, Soviet, or Yugoslav forced laborers from sexual relations with German men. If so-called “race-experts” determined that the child would not be “Germanizable, the women were generally forced to have abortions, sent to give birth in makeshift nurseries where conditions would guarantee the death of the infants, or simply shipped to the region they came from without food or medical care.”

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