The Holocaust

1st Block Chapter 16 Section 3

Group Members

• Justin Maddox

• Stevi Gibson

• Dillon Campbell

• Gina Ghioto

• Gary Harris

Terms and Names

• Aryan

• Holocaust

• Kristallnacht

• Ghetto

• Final Solution

• Genocide

Aryan

• To the Nazis, the Germanic people who formed a “master race”

• Blond hair, blue eyes

Holocaust

• Mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II

Kristallnacht

• “Night of Broken Glass”

• The night of November 9th, 1938, on which Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues through-out Germany

Ghetto

• 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.

Final 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

Genocide

• 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

Star 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

Death 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

Never 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 destroyed…The Nazis left us, yelling, ”Don’t try to leave this house! We’ll 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

Night

• “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

Auschwitz 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

Jews 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%

Puzzle

Unscramble each of the clue words.Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number.

The Holocaust

1) What was the Holocaust?2) What special features did Aryans have, and

how did the Nazis view them?3) Kristallnacht was the Night of what, and why

was it named this?4) What are ghettos?5) What was the “Final Solution”?6) How many Jews died total?7) How many Jews survived the Holocaust?8) At the Death Camps, the gas chambers could

kill how many in one day?9) How many days a week did prisoners in the

camps work as slaves?10) What did the Nazis install to get rid of the

bodies of those they had slaughtered?

1) A systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups judged inferior by the Nazis

2) Aryans have blond hair and blue eyes, and the Nazis viewed them as a “Master Race”

3) Night of Broken Glass, and it is the night that Nazi storm troopers stormed Jewish homes and synagogues

4) Ghettos are segregated Jewish areas in Poland and Germany

5) Hitler’s program of systematically killing an entire people

6) Six million died during the Holocaust

7) Less than four million survived.

8) Six thousand9) Seven10) Cremators and ovens

Resources

• www.Google.com

• www.PuzzleMaker.com

• Modern World History text book

• www.Dictionary.com

• http://www.micetrap.net/shop/catalog/images/angryracially.jpg