By: Kim Michal
Photo Credits:
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Who was Adolf Hitler?
 Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889
 Hitler was the dictator of Germany
 He became dictator in 1933
 This is when it all began…
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm
Hitler (continued)…
“Once I really am in
power, my first and
foremost task will be the
annihilation of the
Jews…until all Germany
has been completely
cleansed of Jews.”
-Adolf Hitler, 1922
http://www.shoaheducation.com/endlos
ung.html
Photo Credit:
http://www.librarising.com/astrology/ce
lebs/images2/A/adolfhitler.jpg
What was The Holocaust?
 Holocaust is literally defined as:
 “a sacrifice consumed by fire”
 But most would define it as:
 the mass slaughter of European civilians, especially
Jews, by the Nazis during World War II
 Lasted from 1933-1945
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/summary/whatframe.html
Photo Credit:
http://www.sunderlandclc.org.uk/UserFiles/File/Holocaust.jpg
Who were the victims?
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Jews
Homosexuals
Gypsies
The Disabled
Slavic Peoples
Jehovah’s Witnesses
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
Concentration Camps
 Prisoners were forced to go into concentration camps
 Also called labor camps
 Some camps were called death camps
 Controlled by the Nazi’s
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133b/07Projects/pix/DworkVanPeltBookpicture.jpg
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133b/07Projects/pix/DworkVanPeltBookpicture.jpg
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html
Auschwitz
 Auschwitz was the largest camp during the
Holocaust
 Prisoners were forced to give up all
belongings
 Children were often killed upon arrival
 Between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000 prisoners
were murdered here
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm
Auschwitz (continued…)
 Auschwitz was located near the German-Polish
border in Upper Silesia
 The sign of the main gate here states “Arbeit
Macht Frei”
 This translates to “Work Brings Freedom”
http://www.sackstark.info/wpcontent/uploads/2008/02/arbeit_macht_frei.jpe
g
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microso
ft%20Word%20-%205782.pdf
At the camps…
 Prisoners were forced to do hard labor
 Prisoners were starved
 Forced to obey the Nazi’s, and were
murdered if they disobeyed
 Prisoners had no control of their own lives
 Many prisoners died as a result of
incarceration and maltreatment
www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
The Victims…
http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/holoc
aust/graphics/holocaust5.jpg
http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/imgs/Ebensee%20
concentration%20camp%20prisoners%201945.jpg
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/i
mages-3/holocaust-victims-in-bunks.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Holocaust123.JPG
http://afeatheradrift.files.wordpres
s.com/2009/04/holocaust.jpg
http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag
es/2009/08/18/holocaust_mass_grave_be
lsen_kuiks_19886.jpg
Camp Doctors
 Nazi doctors tortured men, women, and
children at death camps
 Performed experiments on victims
 Victims were:
 put into pressure chambers
 tested with drugs
 castrated,
 frozen to death
http://www.shoah.dk/doctor
s/
Camp Doctors (continued)…
 Children were exposed to :
 Experimental surgeries without anesthesia
 Blood transfusions from one to another
 Isolation endurance
 Injections of lethal germs
 Sex change operations
 Removal of organs and limbs
http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/
Josef Mengele
 Known as Angel of Death
 Performed experiments on twins:
 Carried out twin to twin
transfusions
 Stitched twins together
 Castrated or sterilized twins
 Organ and limb removal
http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/
http://www.gesch.med.unierlangen.de/gewissen/ausstell/zwill/_bild/23
_25.jpg
http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/phot
o/lc/image/59/5961.jpg
Ways of Genocide
 Gas chambers
 Cremation
 Starvation
 Malnutrition
 Torture
 Death Marches
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/mauthausen/Tour/PhotoTour03.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/policult/assets/postWWII_holocaust/crematorium.jpg
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143
Liberation of the Camps
 Liberation began in 1944
 Soviets liberated Auschwitz in 1945
 U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald in 1945
 Remaining camps were liberated in 1945
 “Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the
Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?Modul
eId=10005131
http://scrapbookpages.com/poland/Auschw
itz/OldPhotos/AuschwitzLiberation.jpg
The Numbers
 11 million prisoners were murdered
 6 million victims were Jews
 Number of European Jews who survived: 3,546,211
 Percentages:
 Polish Jews killed: 91%
 German Jews killed: 36%
 Jews killed in Europe during war: 63%
http://www.jewishmag.co.il/109mag/holocaustnumbers/holocaustnumbers.htm
www.etni.org.il/holocaust/holocaust_numbers.doc
Words from Survivors…
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ER
1sRYDAYY&feature=channel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJd
qDuA9Vp8