Download Major Events of the Holocaust

Major Events of the Holocaust
Description of what happened during this Stage
BOYCOTT: Hitler publicly blamed the Jews for Germany’s
loss of WWI and its failing economy. Hitler announced a
boycott of all Jewish shops, goods, doctors, and lawyers.
Tens of thousands of Jews were fired from their jobs and
banned from universities. Jewish businesses were marked
and often vandalized.
What we learned about Resistance in this Stage
BOYCOTT:
NUREMBERG LAWS: 1935 established the legal means
for assigning Jews inferior status in German society. –
Marriages between Jews and non-Jews for bidden. Jews
had to register with government and wear yellow Stars of
David on clothing. These measure were part of the Nazi’s
Party’s stated goals of encouraging Jewish
emigration(leaving the country) and Expropriation (stripping
of property and rights).
NUREMBERG LAWS:
KRISTALLNACHT: November 1938. “Night of Broken
Glass” Planned uprising that was intended to escalate the
ongoing Nazi effort to dehumanize and bring misery to the
Jews. SS storm troopers and anti-Jewish people looted
Jewish businesses and killed and arrested German Jews.
In 15 hours, 7,500 Jewish-owned stores were destroyed
and over 100 Jews were killed. 30,000 more Jews were
arrested and interned in camps. The German govt. then
fined the Jewish community to pay for the damage caused
by the mobs.
KRISTALLNACHT:
JEWISH GHETTOS: Ghettos were small areas within a city
that were sealed off with barbed-wire or high walls. Jews
were segregated from society and not permitted to leave.
Ghettos were established in occupied eastern Europe, one
of the worst was in Warsaw, Poland. Jews were subjected
to overcrowding, hard labor, lack of sanitation, starvation
and disease.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS: During WWII, the Nazis set
up several thousand camps in which prisoners were
starved, tortured, worked to death, and in most cases
murdered. Anyone considered an enemy of the Nazi
regime was detained in the camps: socialists, clergy of
various faiths, Jews, the physically and mentally
handicapped, Gypsies, homosexuals, prostitutes and
beggars.
DEPORTATIONS THROUGOUT EUROPE: With six major
death camps operating in Eastern Europe, the Germans
had wiped out nearly the entire Jewish population of
northeastern Europe by mid 1943. Then they set their sites
on deporting the Jewish populations in occupied countries.
In the Netherlands, 107,000 of the 140,000 Jews who had
been living the Netherlands were deported.
JEWISH GHETTOS:
THE FINAL SOLUTION: Officially coordinated at the
Wannsee Conference in 1942. Death camps were
constructed in Poland, where gas was to be the primary
means of execution. Over 6,000,000 Jews killed and
millions of others.
THE FINAL SOLUTION:
CONCENTRATION CAMPS:
DEPORTATIONS THROUGOUT EUROPE: