The Holocaust
Genocide of the Jews before and
during World War II
Kristallnacht-Crystal Night
• The Night of the Broken Glass
• November 7, 1938
• Nazi gangs entered and burned
most of the synagogues in
Germany
• broke into Jewish homes and
businesses, looted and beat up the
occupants
• several hundred Jews committed
suicide, more than 1000 murdered,
26,000 are put into concentration
camps and fined $1billion marks
•
• Photographs of Burning
Synagogues on Kristallnacht
Confining Jews to the Ghetto
• Forced Jews to live in the
Ghettos (1939-1941)
• eventually became transition
areas to ship to Concentration
Camps
• Warsaw being the most famous
of the Ghettos
• Photos of the Segregation of
Jews from Society
• Scenes from the Warsaw
Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
• April 19, 1943 starts
• hold out for nearly a
month
• of the 56,000 captured,
7000 are shot
• Scenes from the Ghetto
uprising
•
uprising
The Concentration Camps
• 6 million plus Jews and over 10
million total people die in
concentration camps
• killed with a grand program of
physical extermination of the
entire European Jewish
population
• The Camps were set up to
starve and kill Jews and others
• Most notorious is Buchenwald
in Germany and Auschwitz
outside of Germany
•
camps in Germany
Photographs from the Camps
• Photographs from the Camps
•
emptied by the allies
• More Photos from Death Camps
Leader of the Final Solution
•
• head of the Nazi Police called
Gestapo
• in 1929-headed the
Schultzstaffel (known as the SS
or Black Shirts)-elite military
force
• 1934-takes over the Gestapo
• carries out the Holocaust
• captured by the British in 1945-
set to stand trial-kills himself
instead
Liberation of the Camps
• 12th Armored Division
liberate the Death
Camps