Jewish Holocaust of World War II

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Jewish Holocaust of World War II
Arbeit Macht Frei Work Shall Set You Free
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Why?

• Anti-Semitism Anti-Jewish feelings
• Jewish Diaspora, or movement, from Judea (Israel)
  throughout history
• Jews spread throughout Europe
• Basic doctrinal differences b/w Christians and
  Jews

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Jewish Diaspora from 1100-1500
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Victim Statistics

• Six years of killing, 1939-1945
• Over 5,700,000 dead
• (Population of Maryland 5,375,156)
• Babies killed before births could be recorded
  death toll is much higher
• Largest amount of deaths took place in modern
  Poland

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Persecuted Groups

• Roma (Gypsies)
• WWII Deaths - 245,810 - 263-110
• Homosexuals
• 5,000-15,000 incarcerated in concentration camps
• Over half of those incarcerated believed murdered
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• 6,000 individuals sent to concentration camps
• Only 3,900 survivors in 1945
• Mentally / Physically  Handicapped
• 400,000 forcibly sterilized
• 275,000 murdered

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German Identifying Marks
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The Camps

• Over 15,000 camps established
• Categories
• -Work camps
• -Extermination camps
• -Prison camps

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Major Nazi Death Camps

• Chelmno
• Treblinka
• Sobibór
• Majdanek
• Belzec
• Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Jewish Population in Europe - 1939
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Railcars were always overstuffed with victims.
Many never made it to the camps, awaiting death
while gasping for air between their fellow humans.
Many perished en-route to the death camps.
Prisoners were not fed, nor allowed to use the
restroom.
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The Camps
Auschwitz Layout
Dachau Layout
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• Site of the station platform at Treblinka where
  Jews disembarked. The stones lying to the side
  represent the train tracks the standing stones,
  the barbed wire fences.

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• Between eight and nine hundred thousand would
  perish here, including the Jews of Warsaw.
• Treblinka was one of four pure death camps in
  Poland
• -it served only to murder.

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Death
Gas Chamber-Crematorium complex at Dora Slave
Labor Camp. Those too weak to work would find
their way here. Germans used carbon monoxide,
car exhaust (gassing vans), and finally Zyklon B
upon their victims.
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Carbon monoxide gas chamber at Majdanek
Elsewhere in this building Zyklon B was also
used to kill. Nazis guards could watch the dying
through barred windows.
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Men await death inside of a gassing van.
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This is the opening to one of the four gigantic
gas chamber-crematoria complexes at Birkenau.
Over one million perished in the Auschwitz camps.
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Period Photo of Crematorium Complex IV at
Auschwitz
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The Crematoriums
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Burning site The Nazis used truck frames to
create human pyres to dispose of the dead bodies.
The fused, blackened material is all that
remains.
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HUMAN ASHESThis mound of ashes is about fifteen
feet high and one hundred-plus feet in diameter.
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The words on the marker of this mass grave site
at Bergen-Belsen reads Here lies 2500
dead.When the British troops arrived they were
amazed and outraged at what they found.
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They set about forcing the Nazi guards and local
townspeople to view and then bury the dead.
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Atrocities
Dissection TableAdjacent to this room, on one
side is a gas chamber, on the other, the ovens.
In between victims would give up their gold teeth.
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Barbaric medical experiments, often without
anesthetic and hope of recovery.
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Death Squads
Men, women and children were force to dig large
pits, only to find that they had dug their own
graves.
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Hope Liberation
Retreating Germans left boxcars in the camps.
Some of them empty, some of them full. Those
liberated rejoiced at the sight pf American and
Soviet troops.
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Justice