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1) What was the Holocaust?2) What were some of the ways that Hitler targeted the Jews?
Reminders
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9.7- Holocaust
• Concentration camps were places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved often starved, tortured and killed.
• Most camps were located around huge centers of Jewish population- many were in Poland.
• Extermination camps or death camps had the primary function of systematically killing people by gassing.
Prisoners
• The largest numbers of prisoners were Jews and Russian prisoners of war.
• In most camps, prisoners were forced to wear identifying overalls with colored badges.
Treatment
• Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps through deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor.
• Prisoners were transported in inhumane conditions by rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination.
Liberation
• The camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945.
• Why did the US not do anything to liberate the camps before 1944?
• Should the` US have bombed the concentration camp Auschwitz?
• 1) Read the question, then read the text.• 2) Complete the graphic organizer• 3) Complete the open-ended question
Homework
Exit Ticket
• 1) What were the conditions in the concentration camps like?
• 2) Do you think that the US should have tried to bomb the concentration camps?
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