The HolocaustBy: Elizabeth Benkert, Kayla Greenup, and Koral Berberich.

Nuremberg Laws• In September 1935 this law took citizenship away from Jews

• It also banned marriages between Jews and Germans.

• *The Nazis killed Jews AND millions of other people they considered inferior.*

6 MILLION

Getting Worse• The Jewish people were banned from most

work fields so they had no source of income.

• However, they stayed in Germany because they thought things would get better.

• *Jews got their passports marked with a red lettered “J’’ to identify them as Jewish.*

Herschel Grynszpan• *Herschel Grynszpan was a young Jewish refugee who shot and killed a German diplomat in Paris.*

• His father and 10,000 other Jews had been deported to Poland and he was seeking revenge for this act.

Kristallnacht• In reaction to Herschel Grynszpan Hitler

staged attacks against the Jews.• On November 9th the plan played out it was

known as the Night of Broken glass because broken glass littered the streets afterwards.

• 90 Jews died. Hundreds injured. Thousands terrorized.

• Nazis forbid police to interfere while thugs destroyed 7,500 businesses and hundreds of synagogues.

Lawlessness of Kristallnacht• *Gestapo- the governments secret police

arrested 30,000 Jewish men.*

• The Jews were only released by the Gestapo if they immigrated and surrendered all of their possessions.

• *The Gestapos also confiscated insurance payments owed to Jewish business owners. *

Hitler• In 1933 Hitler took power of

Germany.

• *World war two started in 1939.*

• Before World war two stated 350,000 Jews escaped Germany

Anne Frank• *Anne Frank along with her father Otto Frank

escaped from Germany and settled in Amsterdam in 1933.*

• Anne kept a diary about life and hiding after Nazis overran the Netherlands.

• Albert Einstein also escapedFrom Germany.

Limits on immigration.• Germany had a backlog of 100,000 Jews trying to

leave for the United States.• Most never received their visas to the countries

they applied.• Millions of Jews remained trapped in Germany.

• Most couldn’t get to places they desired because Nazis restricted taking more than $4 out of the country.

• The U.S. had laws prohibiting people who didn’t have any money.

St. Louis Affair• May 27, 1939 the S.S. St. Lewis entered

harbor in Havana, Cuba with 930 refugees aboard.

• They had certificates improperly issued by Cuba's director of immigration.

• When the ship arrived in Cuba the government revoked the visas and refused to let the refugees come ashore.

• The ships captain steered in circles waiting to get permission to dock on U.S. ports but got denied and had to head back to Europe.

The Final Solution• On January 20 1942 Nazi leaders met at the

Wannsee Conference to determine the final solution to the Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and other people from conquered areas.

• They shot and killed then, and buried them in mass graves, but this was proven to be too slow for the Nazi’s.

• *Soon the Nazis started bringing healthy people to concentration camps to work as slaves.*

• *Elderly, the infirm, and young children would be extermination camps and be executed to massive gas chambers.*

• "Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Around us, everyone was weeping. Someone began to recite the Kaddish. I do not know if it has ever happened before, in the long history of the Jews, that people have ever recited the prayer for the dead for themselves .... Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp .... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent sky.“

-Elie Wiesel

Concentration Camps• The first concentration camp was

established in 1933, after the was they built new ones all throughout Europe.

• Even at concentration camps that didn’t have gas chambers, hundreds of people died from bad living conditions, and exhaustion.

Extermination Camps• In 1941 the Nazis built extermination facilities ad

the Chelmno and Auschwitz concentration camps.• In Auschwitz, there was 100,000 victims housed in

300 prison barracks.• *Gas chambers were built to hold 2,000 people at

a time.*• Out of 1,600,000 people who died in Auschwitz,

about 1,300,000 were Jews.

Question #1•The Nazis killed ______?_______ Jews AND millions of other people they considered inferior.A)4.5 Billion C) 6 MillionB)6 Billion D) 4.5 Million

Question #2•Who were the governments secret police that arrested 30,000 Jewish men?• A) Nazis C) The Black Hand• B) Gestapos D) Bob Marley

Question #3• _____?_____ was a young Jewish refugee who shot and killed a German diplomat in Paris.

• A) Elie WieselC) Kristallnacht• B) Clifford the big red dog D) Herschel

Grynszpan

Question #4• The Gestapos also confiscated insurance payments owed to Jewish _____ _____.

• A)Business owners C) Boat owners• B) Home owners D) Pet owners

Question #5• Jews got their passports marked with

a __?__ lettered “J’’ to identify them as Jewish.

• A) Blue C) Yellow

• B) Green D) Red

Question #6•World war two started in 1939.

•A) Yesterday C) 1926•B) 1939 D) 1944

Question #7• Soon the Nazis started bringing ___?___ people to concentration camps to work as slaves.

• A) sick C) healthy• B) dead D) weak

Question #8• _______, __ _____, and ______ ______

would be sent to extermination camps and be executed to massive gas chambers.

• A) Elderly, the infirm, and young children D) Women, young children, and the infirm

• B) Sick, the old, and dead C) Men, healthy, and the strong

Question #9• Gas chambers were built to hold __?

__ people at a time.

• A) 2,000 C) One trillion• B) 4,000 D) 1,000

Question #10• Anne Frank along with her father __?

__ Frank escaped from Germany and settled in Amsterdam in 1933.

• A) Frank C) Otto• B) Jacob D) Otis