3/11 Bellringer

3/11 BELLRINGER

• His 1: Evaluating Primary and Secondary Sources• His 2: Cause and Effect• Objective: Students will

be able to describe the experiences of victims of the Holocaust.

•Watch the following video and take notes on the survivors’ experiences.• Holocaust Experience

sTake out a piece of paper (THAT YOU CAN TURN IN). Write your name, date and period at the top. Label the paper Holocaust.

ANTI-SEMITISM

•hatred of the Jews.

*HOLOCAUST

•deliberate & planned destruction of European Jews by the Nazis.

• Took the lives of an estimated 5-6 million people

NAZI POLICIES

• Jews denied citizenship and careers. They were forced to wear insignias and given new middle names – Sarah and Israel

• Yellow Jew • Brown Gypsy • Violet Jehovah's

Witness • Pink Homosexual • Green Habitual

criminal • Red Political

prisoner • Black Asocial • Blue Emigrant

HITLER’S POLICE

• Gestapo – secret state police• SS – elite guard

which took up the Gestapo

• Heinrich Himmler – Leader of the SS

MURDER TO GENOCIDE

• Kristallnacht• Warsaw Ghetto• Mobile Killing Squads• Final Solution -

Genocide

KRISTALLNACHT

WARSAW GHETTO

GENOCIDE

DEATH CAMPS

• Different than concentration camps• Tattoos• 12,000 people could

be killed in a single day

DACHAU

BUCHENWALD

BIRKENAU

AUSCHWITZ

3/11 EXIT TICKET

• His 1: Evaluating Primary and Secondary Sources• His 2: Cause and Effect• Objective: Students

will be able to describe the experiences of victims of the Holocaust.

• Read the excerpt from Elie Weisel’s Night on pages 938-939. • Answer the 3

questions at the bottom of page 939.