The Holocaust

Hitler’s Plan of Purification

The Jewish Life

• Jews were mostly very prosperous• Jewish families were very close and joined

together to celebrate religious holidays and family events

• Hitler’s mother was treated for breast cancer by a Jewish doctor

• She suffered and died• In the 1930’s there were about 9.5 million

Jews in Europe

Fleeing the Country

• Many Jews were hidden by non-Jews

• Many Jews were kept in secret hiding places

• Many Jews were given food, shelter, and jobs

Concentration Camps

• Auschwitz-Birkenau• Belzec• Solibor• Treblinka• Bergen-Belsen• Buchenwald• Chelmo• Dachau• Maidanek• Mauthausen

Difference in Camps

• Labor camps

• Extermination camps

• Experimentation camps

Life as a Jew

• There are many eye-witness accounts of the atrocities that the Jewish people faced

• There are also many who disbelieve these accounts

The Evidence

• The evidence is disputed

• Over 6,000,000 Jews were killed

• Gypsies, Polish people, criminals, Protestants, Communists were also killed

• The Germans tried to cover up the evidence