THE HOLOCAUST

OUTLINE :

• What is the Holocaust?

• Development of the Holocaust and
persecutions
• The “Final Solution”
• Victims
 What is the Holocaust?
• The Holocaust was the systematic
persecution and annihilation of
European Jewry by Nazi Germany
between 1933 and 1945.
• The term holocaust is a word of Greek
origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”
• In Hebrew the term used for holocaust
is “shoah” , meaning “catastrophe”
Development and persecutions
The NAZI party and Adolf Hitler seized
power in 1933.
Legislation against jews:
• the decree that defines jewish as non-
Aryans
• Nuremberg race laws
• laws restricting jewish education
 Jewish persecutions
•“Night of Broken Glass”
• Ghettoizattion
- German Jews were deported to Poland
where they lived in Ghettos
- Ghetto :any section of a city in which
members of a minority group live
Daily life in the Ghetto
 The final solution
• 1942 Nazis prepared a “final solution” to
the Jewish question
• phases of the Nazi plan to exterminate
Jewish population of Europe
-shooting
- gas vans
- camps - concentration camps
- extermination camps
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A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS
 Holocaust Victims…
•6 million Jews
• 1.5 million children
under 12

•“Other Undesirables”
• 5 million

11 MILLION
KILLED