HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE

By: Delainie Gonsoir

BEFORE
Hostility and torture of the Jews began before the Holocaust
Romans destroyed Jewish temples and forced them out of
Palestine
HITLER
He was born in Austria of 1889
Served in the German army (WWI)
Joined the National German Workers Party (Nazis)
Produced writings and memoirs about eliminating the Jews
January 20, 1933 became Chancellor of Germany
1934 became the ruler of Germany
1933-1939
Racial purity/spatial expanded
Beginning of Hitlers domestic power
First Concentration Camp for Communists opened in 1933
In July of 1933, they held over 27,000 people
Rallies were held that burned items from Jews, Communists,
Liberals, and Foreigners
CONT.
The derogatory terms and things about Jews and other foreign
people increased
November 1938 synagogues were burned and Jewish shops were
destroyed
100 Jews killed and thousands were arrested
Many Jews fled Germany to get away from the destruction
1939-1940
German police forced many Jews and foreigners into ghettoes
Ghettoes (Captive city-states)
This created a lot of poverty, hunger, overpopulation, an insane
amount of diseases, and unemployment.

1940-1941
Hitlers army expanded and only got stronger
Jews and others were transported to Poland by crowded trains
Germans invaded the Soviet Union
Einsatzgrupren, and other killing units and centers, murdered over
500,000 soviet Jews
1941-1945
Started transferring Jews and other foreigners to concentration
camps in Poland
Mass killings began at these starting with the weak and old and the
very young because they were not able to work and do hard labor
More killing centers were created: Auschwitz was the largest.

CONCENTRATION CAMPS
11 million people died
6 million were Jews
Forced to do hard labor
Very underfed, malnourished, and were given small portions
Medical experiments were conducted along with torture, physical, and mental abuse
There were such things as mass murder killing centers, where they would make Jews go into these centers
and would kill them with gas
They also killed them by shooting them in groups, where each would go down and people would watch the
ones they love die.
They were forced to run with no clothes, no shoes, and for long periods of time with no rest, in freezing
temperatures.
END OF THE HOLOCAUST
German leadership started to fall
Hitler committed suicide
Shortly after the Germans surrendered in WWII on May 8, 1945
By the end of the war, two out of every three of these Jews were
dead
AFTER-MATH
Prisoners suffered from
Post traumatic stress disorder
Loss of families and friends; Their loved ones were murdered and
taken away from them right in front of them
Forced to watch other people die and be tortured
Taken away and forced out of their homes and neighborhoods
Long term health problems and scarring

ALDOFF HITLER
WORKS CITED
"Holocaust | Extermination of Polish and Soviet." Holocaust |
Extermination of Polish and Soviet. Project Aladdin, n.d. Web. 15 May 2014.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A Forgotten Suitcase: The
Mantello Rescue Mission. Online Exhibitions.
http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/collections-
highlights/mantello-rescue-mission.