The Holocaust
What does the term Holocaust mean in Hebrew?
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss life by fire, shoah, catastrophe.
Who did the Nazi’s persecute?
In 1933, Nazis persecuted anyone anyone who dared opposed them, as well as the disabled, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Slavic peoples, they reserved their strongest hated for Jews.
What did the Nuremberg Laws do? (September 1935)
It took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans. the law affected of voting rights, and public office, forbade Jews from employing female German servants under age of 35 and compelled Jews with German-surrounding names to adopt “Jewish” names.
Kristallnacht: How did it come about? (November 9, 1938)
Anti-Jewish violence that erupted throughout Germany and Austria that night came, “Night of the broken glass, ” because broken glass littered the streets afterward. When daylight came, 90 Jews lay dead, hundreds were badly injured, and the thousands more were terrorized.
Who was the government’s secret police?
Gestapo, they arrested at least 20,000 wealthy Jews, releasing them only if they agreed to emigrate and surrender all their possessions.
Why were the Jews having trouble fleeing to the US?
Many never received visas to the United States or to the other countries where they applied because the has control, and don't want the Jew to leave. Second reason, many countries refused to accept Jewish immigrants.
What was the plan set in place at the Wannsee Conference? (January 20, 1942)
The German officials determine the final solution to round up Jews from the vast areas of Nazis-controlled Europe and take them to detention centers known as concentration camps and extermination camps.
How were the Jews handled in Concentration Camps? Extermination Camps?
Concentration Camps are for Jews to work in slave labors until drop dead of exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition. Extermination camps are executed in massive gas chambers. They gassed 12,000 people a day.
What methods were used by the Nazi’s to kill the Jews?
Gas Chambers, death of exhaustion, diseases
When and how did it all end?
Concentration camps ended in the year 1945. The time the Allied forces were able to enter Germany and freed the prisoners in the concentration camps. These camps were set up all over Germany, some to be used as forced labor.