Title: The Holocaust
11st Block Chapter 16 Section 3
2Group Members
- Justin Maddox
- Stevi Gibson
- Dillon Campbell
- Gina Ghioto
- Gary Harris
3Terms and Names
- Aryan
- Holocaust
- Kristallnacht
- Ghetto
- Final Solution
- Genocide
4Aryan
- To the Nazis, the Germanic people who formed a
master race - Blond hair, blue eyes
5Holocaust
- Mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians
carried out by the Nazi government of Germany
before and during World War II
6Kristallnacht
- Night of Broken Glass
- The night of November 9th, 1938, on which Nazi
storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses,
and synagogues through-out Germany
7Ghetto
- City neighborhoods in which European Jews were
forced to live. - Segregated Jewish areas.
- The Nazis sealed the Jews off in the Ghettos with
barbed wire and stone walls.
8Final Solution
- Hitler grew impatient of waiting for Jews to die
of disease and starvation - He decided to take more direct action
- Hitler began a
- program of
- systematically
- killing the entire
- Jewish people
9Genocide
- The systematic killing of an entire people, such
as a religion or race - To protect racial purity, the Nazis had to
eliminate other races, nationalities, or groups
they viewed as inferior subhumans - Although there were others, the Nazis main focus
was on the Jews
10Star of David
- After 1941, all Jews in German-controlled areas
had to wear a yellow Star of David patch, which
looked similar to the star on the right
11Death Camps
- Six million European Jews died in these death
camps and in the Nazi massacres - Fewer than four million survived
- These camps were mainly located in Germany and
Poland - Most prisoners lost 50 pounds in just the first
few months - Gas chambers in the death camps could kill up to
six thousand people in one day - The Nazis soon installed cremators and ovens to
dispose of the bodies - Jews were used as slaves seven days a week
12Never to Forget
- All the things for which my parents had worked
for 18 long years were destroyed in less than 10
minutes. Piles of valuable glasses, expensive
furniture, linens-in short, everything was
destroyedThe Nazis left us, yelling, Dont try
to leave this house! Well soon be back again and
take you to a concentration camp to be shot. - Quoted in Never to Forget The Jews of the
Holocaust by M. I. Libau
13Night
- 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 dues Never. - Quoted in Night by Elie Wiesel
14Auschwitz Uprising
- Ella Gartner and Roza Robota made the Auschwitz
uprising possible by smuggling gunpowder into the
camp from the munitions factory in which Ella
worked - Robota helped organize resistance in the camp
- They were both executed on January 6th, 1945
- Less than a month after their execution,
Auschwitz was liberated
15Jews Killed Under Nazi Rule
Original Jewish Population Jews Killed Percent Surviving
Poland 3,300,000 2,800,000 15
Soviet Union (area occupied by Germans) 2,100,000 1,500,000 29
Hungary 404,000 200,000 49
Romania 850,000 425,000 50
Germany/ Austria 270,000 210,000 22
16Puzzle
Unscramble each of the clue words.Copy the
letters in the numbered cells to other cells with
the same number.
17The Holocaust
- A systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other
groups judged inferior by the Nazis - Aryans have blond hair and blue eyes, and the
Nazis viewed them as a Master Race - Night of Broken Glass, and it is the night that
Nazi storm troopers stormed Jewish homes and
synagogues - Ghettos are segregated Jewish areas in Poland and
Germany - Hitlers program of systematically killing an
entire people - Six million died during the Holocaust
- Less than four million survived.
- Six thousand
- Seven
- Cremators and ovens
- What was the Holocaust?
- What special features did Aryans have, and how
did the Nazis view them? - Kristallnacht was the Night of what, and why was
it named this? - What are ghettos?
- What was the Final Solution?
- How many Jews died total?
- How many Jews survived the Holocaust?
- At the Death Camps, the gas chambers could kill
how many in one day? - How many days a week did prisoners in the camps
work as slaves? - What did the Nazis install to get rid of the
bodies of those they had slaughtered?
18Resources
- www.Google.com
- www.PuzzleMaker.com
- Modern World History text book
- www.Dictionary.com
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