Friday March 7, 2014• Take your seat• Begin Warm-Up

Warm-Up

Have you ever been discriminated against because of the color of your skin, your religion,

the fact that you are a jock or for any other reason? Explain what happened. How did you

feel? How did you react?

1 paragraph, s-u-t-w style, color code please

Today’s Agenda

• Warm-Up

• Interactive Notes – 14-2 Part 2 “Holocaust”

• Homework – Take the weekend off

Chapter 14, Section 2

The Holocaust

Today’s Standard10.8 Students analyze the causes and

consequences of World War II.4. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial

purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

What was the Holocaust and what responsibility does the world have to prevent things like it

in the future?

Essential Question

“They came first for the Communists,and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist

Then they came for the Jews,and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew

Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist

Then they came for the Catholics,and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant

Then they came for me,and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

-Martin Niemoller

Setting the Stage• Holocaust = Mass slaughter of

European Jews

• Germans call themselves Aryans they believe they’re Master Race

• The Nuremberg Laws (1935) – Citizenship revoked;

deprived of jobs & property; Star of David

• Kristallnacht – Nov. 9, 1938– “Night of Broken Glass” – first

organized and gov’t sanctioned violence against Jews.

Flight & Isolation

Starving children in Warsaw ghetto

• Flood of Jewish refugees

• Nations close doors

• Euro. Jews isolated in “ghettos”

• Ghettos were used to keep Jews separated from the rest of the population.

– Sealed w/ barbed

wire & stone walls

– Goal: starve or die from disease

Heinrich Himmler, Head of SS

Hitler’s “Final Solution”• The Nazi plan to engage in a

Genocide against the Jewish population

– Genocide = systematic killing of an entire people

– Targeted Jews, gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, & incurably ill

– Mass executions, concentration camps, & death camps

Ukrainian Jew about to be murderedA member of

Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew,

who is forced to kneel before a mass grave full of

other victims.

A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)

Jews Executed in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine

A group of children just before they were executed by an Einsatzkommando

(Soviet Union, wartime. Central State Archives of Film,

Photo and Phonographic Documents of the Latvian SSR, USHMM Photo).

Group of Children just before their Execution, USSR

Mass Exterminations

• Final Stage = 1942 (Final Solution)• 6 death camps in Poland• Gas chambers – 6,000 deaths a day

– Poisoned with cyanide gas• Ovens used to burn bodies

Bodies at Buchenwald

Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald camp

Timeline for Nazi Extermination Camps

Auschwitz

Corpses in Belsen

Mass Grave in Bergen-Belsen

Dachau Freezing Experiments

Jewish children, victims of medical experiments in Auschwitz

The Holocaust and Resistance• Some Jewish resistance and help from

non-Jewish people

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer – famous Christian leader, part of Nazi resistance movement – executed for attempted to assassinate Hitler

– Oscar Schindler – businessman who saved over 1,000 Jews

• 90% of Jews in Poland & Germany killed during Holocaust

– 6 Million Jews were murdered in Holocaust

• 6 Million additional people murdered in death and concentration camps as well.– Pols, homosexual, Russians, etc…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Oscar Schindler

Little Polish Boy

Liberated Concentration Camp Survivors – From Mauthausen camp

May 5, 1945

“Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into

wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which

consumed my faith forever…Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to

dust…Never.”

Elie Wiesel from Night

Quick-WriteWhat do you think this quote means? How does

it reflect the horrors of the Holocaust?