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The Jewish Holocaust
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
As Americans, why didn’t we speak against
the injustices towards the Jews? What could
America have done to prevent the Holocaust?
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
• Hitler announced a boycott of all Jewish
businesses.
• The purpose of the boycott of Jewish
businesses was to socially and economically
isolate Jews from German society.
• Tens of thousands of Jews were fired from
their jobs.
• Jewish stores were marked with Stars, and
were often terrorized.
"Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don't Buy From Jews!"
The German
woman reads a
boycott sign
posted in the
window of a
Jewish-owned
department
store in Berlin.
1st April 1933: Members of the SS in Berlin,
pasting a notice onto a Jewish business, urging
Germans to boycott Jewish shops.
Nuremberg Laws
• Hundreds of laws were passed to restrict the
life of Jews in German society.
• The Nuremberg Laws passed were a means
for assigning Jews an inferior status in
German society.
• Jews were considered “subjects,” were as
Germans were “citizens.”
• Jews were forced to wear armbands with the
Star of David.
• Marriages between Jews and Germans was
forbidden.
Kristallnacht
• Nazi officials unleashed a savage
nationwide campaign of terror against
Germany’s Jewish population.
• In 15 hours, 101 synagogues were
destroyed by fire, 76 were demolished.
• 7,500 Jewish stores were destroyed, over
100 Jews were killed.
• 30,000 Jews were imprisoned and arrested.
• German govt. fined Jews 1 Billion marks
($400,000,000) for damages caused.
Instead of putting out the fire at the Jewish
synagogue, the German fire department waters
German buildings to prevent them from burning.
One of the 101 synagogues burned and
destroyed in Germany during Kristallnacht.
Jewish Ghettos
• Ghettos were small areas within a city that
were sealed off with barbed wire or high walls.
• The purpose was to isolate the Jews from
normal society.
• Ghettos proved to be a temporary way to
concentrate Jews before sending them to
Concentration Camps.
Map of the Jewish Ghettos throughout Europe.
Deportation throughout Europe
• After Nazi Germany captured the west, it
now needed to deport all Jews to
Concentration Camps in the East.
• In 1943, 60,000 Jews were deported from
the Netherlands to Auschwitz killing center in
Poland.
• In France, 50,000 Jews were deported by
June 1943.
• In May 1943, more than 42,000 Greek Jews
were sent to Concentration Camps.
Camps
• Camps were originally created as labor
camps.
• By 1942, they served the sole purpose of
exterminating Jews.
• Criminals, homosexuals, Gypsies,
prostitutes, beggars, socialists, clergy and
religious people were killed.
• People suffered unimaginable torture, hard
labor, disease, chronic hunger, etc.
Final Solution
• The “Final Solution” to the “Jewish
problem” was to expel and exterminate
all Jews from German society.
• First, Jews were shot and buried in
mass graves.
• To save bullets, Nazis started to use gas
as the primary means of execution.
• In the end, over 6 million Jews were
killed.
Massive grave of Jews exhumed for cremation.
Liberation
• Towards the end of the war, Hitler ordered
the burning of dead Jews.
• However, Nazis did not have enough time
to burn all Jews and their items.
• Bodies remained unburied or cremated.
• And, the Jews personal items remained as
well.
• About 300,000—400,000 Jews were
liberated by the Allies.