The Holocaust Nazi’s propose new racial order

Aryans- master race of Germanic peoples All non-Aryans were inferior: especially Jewish

Holocaust- mass slaughter of Jews and other groups

(Poles, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Africans, Mentally-Handicapped)

Holocaust begins Jews became targets of German failures Nuremberg Laws- took away rights of Jews

Citizenship, marriages

“night of broken glass” German diplomat shot in Paris

By Grynszpan: for revenge of father being deported to Poland

Germans launch attack on Jews This night will be known as kristallnacht Kristallnacht became a major policy of Jewish persecution

Flood of Refugees Jews will flee Germany Hitler called it a “Jewish problem” Other countries will turn down the influx of Jewish immigrants

Isolating the Jews Hitler will move Jews into Ghettos- segregated Jewish areas

Ghettos were then sealed off with barbed wire & stone walls

Some Jews will form resistance groups in ghettos Jews will struggle to keep traditions

Hitler’s Impatience

The “Final Solution” Hitler grows impatient Plan- “final solution” becomes plan for genocide- mass killing of entire people

Plan for conquest depended on purity of Aryan race

Killings begin Hitler’s SS will hunt down Jews Shot prisoners in pits Jews not reached by killing squads went to concentration camps

Final Stage Extermination camps built with gas chambers

Auschwitz- largest of the camps The Survivors

11 million will die (6 million Jews)

Identity Card activity

Take a few minutes to read the identity card you were given.

Think about that person’s journey through the war.

How would you respond in their situation?

Irena Sendler As a young non-jewish woman in Poland she joined a force of women working in the Warsaw Ghetto.

She would deliver food, medicine and other necessities on a daily basis to the prisoners in the ghetto.

While there she would convince Jewish parents to send their children with her.

She would keep careful records of their names as well as the parents.

She would then work to get them temporary identities and arrange for them to live in non-Jewish people.

She would burry the information in jars in a neighbors back yard.

She worked to save over 2500 children before being arrested by the Nazis.

She escaped from prison and avoided the Nazis for the remainder of the War.

After the war she worked to reunite the children with any surviving relatives.