The Holocaust

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

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• 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

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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

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