THE HOLOCAUSTTHE HOLOCAUST1941-1945

Mackenzie Marro and Rachel Jablonowski

WHO WERE THE PERPETRATORS?WHO WERE THE PERPETRATORS?

•The main perpetrator was Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Himmler and the whole Nazi party

WHO WERE THE VICTIMS?WHO WERE THE VICTIMS?

•Jewish people

•Romani people (gypsies)

•Homosexuals

•People with disabilities

•Slavs in eastern Europe

•Soviet POWs

•Poles - Serbs

•Jehovah's witnesses

CHILD PRISONERS IN AUSCHWITZ DEATH

CAMP

CHILD PRISONERS IN AUSCHWITZ DEATH

CAMP

BACKGROUND INFOBACKGROUND INFO• Jews were mainly targeted, because Hitler

wanted to create an Aryan race.

• Aryan race- pure blooded, blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germanic people.

• He targeted Jews and other "Undesirables", because of his dream of having a German empire purified of other ethnic groups.

• The planned extermination was called the "Final Solution"; the S.S. (elite part of German military) put in charge

WHAT HAPPENED?WHAT HAPPENED?People were exterminated through;

•Mass shootings

•Gas exterminations

•Starvation

•Malnutrition

•Beatings and torture, working to death

•Cruel experiments

WHAT CAUSED IT TO END?WHAT CAUSED IT TO END?• Troops from the Soviet Union and the U.S.

discovered the concentration and death camps, liberating all the prisoners still alive.

• They also took many S.S. In charge of the camps, as well as German citizens from surrounding towns and forced them to bury the dead in the camps.

• There were occasions in which Allied soldiers shot the S.S. Camp operators or allowed the prisoners to get their revenge.

DEATHSDEATHS

•Estimated 11 million to 17 million people were killed but there could be many more unrecorded.

•5.9 million Jews

•2-3 million soviet POWs

•1.8-2 million native Poles

•0.2-1.5 million Romani people

•200,000-250,000 disabled people

•To the left is a mass grave at Bergen To the left is a mass grave at Bergen

BelsenBelsen

To the right is the selection process at To the right is the selection process at

Birkenau (the sister camp of Auschwitz)Birkenau (the sister camp of Auschwitz)

•To the left is a mass grave at Bergen To the left is a mass grave at Bergen

BelsenBelsen

To the right is the selection process at To the right is the selection process at

Birkenau (the sister camp of Auschwitz)Birkenau (the sister camp of Auschwitz)

The Entrance to Auschwitz The Entrance to Auschwitz translates to “ Work Makes You translates to “ Work Makes You

Free”Free”

The Entrance to Auschwitz The Entrance to Auschwitz translates to “ Work Makes You translates to “ Work Makes You

Free”Free”

SHOOTING OF JEWS AT IVANGORODBY EINSATZGRUPPEN

(S.S. MOBILE KILLING UNITS)

S.S. OFFICERS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP

S.S. OFFICERS IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP