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The HolocaustPlease note some of these pictures in this slide show may not be suitable for young children

“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything,

that people are truly good at heart.”- Anne Frank

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Adolf Hitler and the German people blamed the Jewish people for all of their troubles

during the depression of the 1930’s . This was a lie.

The symbol of the Nazi

Party.

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Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party and Germany. Members of the Nazi Party helped carry out Hitler’s plan, the extermination of the

Jewish people.

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Hitler’s plan outlined in his book. In his book he outlined his plan for the extermination of the

Jewish people in the world. The title, Mein Kampf, is translated in English, My Plan. Hitler also

planned to exterminate many other races of people besides the Jews.

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Jewish people in Germany were singled out by the German people. If you were Jewish you would have to wear a star labeling you as a Jew on all of your

clothing. In this way the German people could single you out, mistreat you, and have you

arrested by the Police.

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When you were arrested you would deported to the concentration camp. In Hitler's plan, all Jews would be arrested and deported to a and soon

afterwards murdered.

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Jews were deported on overcrowded railroad freight cars. The arrival at a concentration camp ,a

Nazi death camp.

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When adults and children were deported to concentration camps they were separated from

their family .

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Jewish people were given permanent tattoo numbers on their arm by the Nazi’s. Why do you think the Nazi's numbered every concentration

camp prisoner?

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In the concentration camps, people were stripped of their clothes, starved, tortured, and placed in

terrible living conditions.

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In the concentration camps Jewish people were used for slave labor.

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Women and children were also forced to work as slaves in the concentration camps.

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Prisoners were led to the gas chambers in large groups where they ordered to take off their

clothes. The prisoners were then murdered by lethal gasses in gas chambers.

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Prisoners were then buried in mass graves.

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Two months after Anne Franks death from typhus the Jewish prisoners were liberated by the world. Soldiers found 17,000 people dead from a typhus epidemic. They were too late to save Ann and her

sister

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A memorial for Anne and Margot Frank at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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What do you think this artist was trying to say about the holocaust with this sculpture?

Slide show by Mr. Zindman.

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