THE NEW ORDER/ HOLOCAUST
Serena Mills Sarah Hymer Elizabeth Fisher
Summary of the Holocaust
The Holocaust refers to a specific genocidal event in twentieth-century history: the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborator
between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims—
6 million were murdered’ Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were
also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or
national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s
Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.
Jewish order police in Wegrow a section of the Warsaw p rovince
the entrance to the Jewish police station in the 4th precinct of the Warsaw ghetto
Oswiecim Rail staion just outside of the camp
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 as the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Thousands left the country fearing their lives.
Hitler began issuing laws barring Jews from holding professional positions within the country. Jews were then banned from being civil servants, professors, lawyers and doctors. in 1935, hitler enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which took away the citizenship of German Jews and deprived then of all civil rights.
Concentration Camps
Belzac- The death camp at Belzec was located in South Eastern Poland, within the Lublin District, near the remote village of Belzec, on the Lublin – Lvov railway line. In early 1940 the Germans set up a number of labour camps in and around Belzec, housing workers building the so-called “Otto Line,” a series of fortifications on the border with the Soviet Union. These Jewish labour camps were disbanded in October 1940
Deaths in the Holocaust
soldiers
sign in concentration camp
camp photo of Auschwitz prisoner Witold
Essentials Question
2 How was it possible for modern society to carry out the systematic murder of people for no reason other than that they were Jews?