The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• By Ms. Leik

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The Holocaust

• During World War II, Nazi Germany and its allies
  murdered approximately six million Jews.
• The Holocaust is the name used to refer to this
  systematic persecution and murder. Beginning with
  racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the Nazi
  campaign expanded to the mass murder of all
  European Jews.

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• Germans were considered "racially superior" and
  the Jews, and others deemed "inferior," were
  "life unworthy of life."

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Small Group Discussion Questions

• What things would make one group feel superior to
  another group?
• Why could this probably not happen in the United
  States?

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Ghettos

• Ghettos were city districts (often enclosed) in
  which the Germans forced the Jews to live under
  miserable conditions.
• Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish
  communities from the non-Jewish population.
• The Germans established more than 800 ghettos
  throughout eastern Europe.
• At least one million Jews were imprisoned in
  ghettos over the course of the war.

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• Testimony of the Ghetto

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Deportation of Jews

• The Nazis used deportation by train to forcibly
  remove members of ethnic groups from the
  territory on which they lived. They intended to
  remove all Jews from Europe, eventually through
  systematic mass murder.

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• After they began to kill Jews in killing centers,
  the Nazis deported Jews by train and, when trains
  were not available and the distances were short,
  by forced march.

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Deportation of Jews to the Concentration Camps
Testimony
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Journal

• Write a paragraph in your journal about what
  feelings the Jewish people would have been having
  during the deportation.
• How would you have tried to survive?

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Concentration Camps

• The term concentration camp refers to a camp in
  which people are confined or kept, usually under
  harsh conditions and without regard.

Testimony
Testimony
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Aerial view of Dachau concentration camp
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Sleeping Bunks in a Concentration Camp
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Killing Camps

• The Nazis established killing centers for
  efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration
  camps, which served primarily as detention and
  labor centers, killing centers (also referred to
  as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were
  almost exclusively "death factories." German SS
  and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the
  killing centers.

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Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the
killing camps were sent immediately to death in
the gas chambers.
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Testimony from a killing camp
Inside of a gas chamber in Auschwitz
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Figure the Math

• Dubuque has approximately 65,000 people living in
  the city.
• 2,700,000 Jews were killed in the killing camps.
• How many times would the people of Dubuque be
  killed to match the number of Jews killed in the
  killing camps? (nearest whole number without
  going over?

Answer 41
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Discussion

• Give examples of racism in out society
  today?
• Is there more racism among adults or people your
  age? Why?
• How can we end racism?

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Writing

• Write a short story about racism or
  discrimination that may take place in todays
  society.
• Include how your character can help stop the
  racism.

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Bibliography

• Photos, videos and information was found on the
  website for the United States Holocaust Memorial
  Museum.
• www.ushmm.org