The Holocausts “For the dead and the living, we

must bear witness.” ~Elie Wiesel

That there was more than one

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The Defenition Holocaust - any mass slaughter or reckless

destruction of life. Genocide- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or

cultural group.

Table of Contents The Holocaust – Nazi Germany and WWII The Armenian Genocide The Rwanda Genocide American Genocide? You Decide The Holodomor

The Holocaust Nazi Germany killed people in a planned and

forced way during World War II Death Camps Key Leaders: Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler,

Reinhard Heydrich Lasted from 1939- 1945

The Armenian Genocide

The systematic extermination of the Armenian population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor by the Ottoman government and the Young Turks

Dates 1915–1923 Death count: 600,000 - 1,800,000

Rwanda Genocide Mass murder 1994 that lasted 100 days Hutu vs. Tutsi Death count: 500,000–1,000,000 The assassination of Habyarimana in April 1994

American Genocide? Where the Indians victims of genocide? Indian Removal Act- About 17,000 Cherokees

Cherokees were removed from their homes.

The Holodomor a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR

between 1932 and 1933 Death toll- 2.4–7.5 million "terror-famine in Ukraine”