Everyday life in occupied poland
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Krystian Kowalczyk Teacher: Anna Kowalska Class: 3B School: Secondary School No. 1 in Kraków Year: 2020
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To Zoe, Aliza, Liat, Andrew, Morgan:
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Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience.
-Justine
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11 million people were systematically exterminated during the Holocaust from 1933-1945, including 6 million Jews and 5 million others such as Romani people, homosexuals, disabled people, and political dissidents. They were imprisoned and murdered through means such as shooting, starvation, gassing, and burning. The Holocaust occurred in stages that began with stripping rights from Jews and others, segregating them into ghettos, and concentrating them in concentration camps where most perished or were deported to death camps for extermination.
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The document provides an overview of 10 historical core concepts related to the Holocaust: 1) Pre-War Jews, 2) Antisemitism, 3) Weimar Republic, 4) Totalitarian State, 5) Persecution, 6) U.S. and World Response, 7) The Final Solution, 8) Resistance, 9) Rescue, and 10) Aftermath. It describes the lives of Jews in Europe prior to 1933, the rise of antisemitism, the establishment of the Nazi totalitarian state and escalating persecution of Jews culminating in the "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jewry through ghettos and extermination camps. It also discusses responses by the U.S. and other countries
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The Holocaust was one of the darkest periods in human history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party orchestrated the mass slaughter of approximately 6-7 million Jewish people across Europe between 1933-1945. Jews were segregated into ghettos and concentration camps where they faced unspeakable cruelty and atrocities, including medical experiments and mass killings in extermination camps. While some resisted or helped Jews escape, most of the world remained complacent, leading to an unprecedented failure of humanity. The horrors of the Holocaust demonstrate the importance of promoting equality, justice, and compassion to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again.
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Hitler believed that controlling youth was essential to establishing Nazi ideology. Schools were purged of Jewish and politically unreliable teachers, and German and Jewish children were segregated. Subsequently, Jews, disabled people, and Romani were expelled from schools. Women were taught different gender roles, with girls taught to be submissive and homemakers supporting Nazi values. The Nazi regime used propaganda extensively, portraying Jews and enemies as evil through films, posters, and slogans. While some actively resisted, most Germans passively accepted or supported the Nazis, and the Holocaust resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews and millions of others.
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During World War 2, Jews faced immense persecution and genocide at the hands of Nazi Germany. The Holocaust systematically murdered over 6 million Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe through gas chambers, starvation, forced labor, and shootings. While many countries and individuals helped Jews escape, like the Vatican and figures like Oskar Schindler and Irena Sendler, by the end of the war most Jewish communities had been destroyed and many Jews struggled to return home or find refuge.
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The document summarizes the persecution and genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. It describes how Hitler rose to power in 1933 and made antisemitism official policy, severely restricting Jewish people's rights. It then outlines the escalating persecution through the 1930s including the Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship. This culminated in the "Final Solution" planned at the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis systematically murdered approximately 6 million Jews across Europe, most in death camps like Auschwitz where thousands were gassed and cremated daily. The Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity.
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This document summarizes the key facts and arguments about the Holocaust and mass killings in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that the Holocaust was centered in Poland and the Soviet Union, where the majority of Jewish victims lived, rather than Auschwitz. It also notes that Nazi Germany carried out mass killings of non-Jewish Slavic populations and that Stalin's Soviet Union deliberately starved and executed millions of civilians, with Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states experiencing the highest death tolls from both regimes' policies of mass killing.
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The document summarizes the persecution of Romani people (Gypsies) by Nazi Germany. It describes how Gypsies faced widespread discrimination and were seen as undesirable in Europe for centuries. When the Nazis rose to power in 1933, they quickly enacted new racist laws targeting Gypsies. Gypsies were forcibly sterilized and detained in camps like Marzhan, which had poor conditions. Thousands of Gypsies were also sent to concentration camps and treated harshly. Despite their suffering, Gypsies had no advocates and little support during or after the Holocaust. Most estimates indicate that around 90% of Gypsies in Germany and Austria were killed under Nazi rule.
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The document provides an overview of the Holocaust and key events leading up to it:
- Germany faced economic and social instability after WWI, giving rise to Hitler and the Nazis who blamed Jews for Germany's problems.
- After rising to power in 1933, the Nazis systematically stripped Jews of their rights and persecuted them. Kristallnacht in 1938 marked an escalation to violence against Jews.
- During WWII, the Nazis conquered new lands and confined Jews to overcrowded ghettos. At the 1942 Wannsee Conference, the Nazis devised the "Final Solution" to systematically murder all 11 million European Jews in death camps like Auschwitz.
The Holocaust
The document summarizes the persecution and genocide of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. It describes how Jews had faced deep prejudice for centuries and were increasingly targeted in the early 20th century. The rise of Hitler and the Nazis led to the systematic oppression of Jews, stripping of their rights, and confinement to ghettos. The Nazis then implemented the "Final Solution" through concentration camps and death camps, where millions of Jews were executed through mass shootings, gas vans, and gas chambers. By the end, around 6 million Jewish people had been murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
STAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST.pptx
The document provides information about the stages of the Holocaust under Nazi Germany:
1. After Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, Germany transitioned from a democracy to a totalitarian state. Political opponents and ideological enemies were sent to concentration camps.
2. Anti-Jewish measures escalated throughout the 1930s, including boycotts, segregation, dispossession of property, and the use of propaganda to spread antisemitic ideology.
3. Kristallnacht in 1938 saw violent pogroms against Jews across Germany and Austria, murdering 99 Jews and destroying Jewish homes and businesses. This radicalized Nazi policy further.
4. During World War 2, Jews across Europe were isolated in ghe
7 The Road To The Final Solution
The document discusses several key points about Nazi ideology:
1. Nazism was based on racial survival and the idea of Germans as the "Aryan" master race, rather than religion. Hitler drew from a variety of ideological influences to develop his vision.
2. The Nazis' anti-Semitism was focused on race, with Jews seen as "parasites" who lacked their own territory. The goal was to exile or exterminate Jewish people, especially in Eastern lands conquered for "living space."
3. The Holocaust, referred to as the "Final Solution," was ordered by Hitler to exterminate all Jewish people, not just those in Germany. The genocide was carried out systematically in Nazi death camps like
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. Between 1933-1945, Jews were segregated into ghettos, deported to concentration and extermination camps, and murdered en masse. In total, the Nazis established over 300 ghettos and camps across Europe where Jews and other victims lived in inhumane conditions before being transported to death camps to be killed in gas chambers or by other means. By 1945, around 90% of Europe's Jewish population had been killed under the Nazi "Final Solution" plan.
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The Nazis systematically stripped Jews of their rights and persecuted them, believing Jews to be an inferior race. They imprisoned Jews in ghettos and concentration camps where many died of disease, starvation, or medical experiments. The Nazis then constructed death camps like Auschwitz to systematically murder Jews in gas chambers and crematoriums. In total, the Nazis killed approximately 6 million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust through genocide. After the war, Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials. The UN later passed the Genocide Convention to prevent future genocides.
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Everyday life in occupied poland
- 1. Everyday life in occupied Poland
- 2. General information The World War II was the biggest millitary conflict in history of the world. It lasted from 1st September 1939 to 2nd September 1945. During the war Poland was occupied by Germany and Russia. Large areas of western Poland were annexed by Germany. The remaining block of territory was placed under a German administration called the General Government with its capital at Kraków.
- 3. Treating of Polish Mass murders, displacements,pacifications, concentration camps showed the character of German policy to Polish. What is more, Germans distroyed Polish schools, culture and economy. People could move on the country only with permissions. There was police hour. Polish could not have cars, motors (sometimes they could have bikes), phones, radios, gramophones... Polish had to bow to Germany, give up the seats to them.
- 4. Roundup among The civilians were arrested from passers-by or inhabitants of selected city quarters that had been surrounded by German forces. Those caught in roundups were most often sent to slave labor camps in Germany, but also taken as hostages in reprisal actions, imprisoned and sent to concentration camps, or summarily executed in numerous ethnic cleansing operations.
- 5. Gestapo Polish were afraid of Gestapo very much – the secret police which chaacterised of cruelity, they used blackmail, body punishment, tortures. Gestapo seat on Szuch in Warsaw
- 6. Ghettos and helping of Jewish A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group (especially Jewish) live, because of social, legal, or economic pressure. Jewish were taken from neighboring towns and countries. From ghetto they were taken to concentration camps and there were killed. The conditions in ghetto were awful: diseases, dirt, lack of food and cruel terror. Jewish died of starvation and exhaustion. All of them had to wear special bands with David's Star. For helping Jewish was capital punishment but even though some Polish tried to help them: they provided food, helped to escape or hidded them.
- 7. Jewish, Ghettos – photos
- 8. German camps There were a lot of German camps in Poland during World War II both in the areas annexed by Germany and in the territory of General Government. A system of camps of various kinds was established across the entire country, including extermination camps, concentration camps, labour, and POW camps. The Nazi German death factories in Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau Bełżec Chełmno Majdanek Sobibór Treblinka
- 9. German death camps camps was the elimination The primary function of death of Jews from all the countries occupied by Germany. Many non-Jewish Poles and other prisoners were also killed in these camps. The estimated total number of people killed in these camps is over three million
- 10. Food had to give Germans Polish farmers Polish farmers had to give Germans everything: cereal, potatoes, meat, milk. That's why both in the cities and the countries was not any food. Everything was on cards which were not enough for people to live. People were hungry, they could have only: bread, marmolade, potatoes, black coffe and sacharina, instead of sugar. During that time the black market appeared but all goods were very expensive.
- 11. Communication Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. There were trams in big cities. All carriages were divided into two part by chain with the slogan: ''Nur fur Deutsche'‘. From the beginning only Germans could travel, the second part was for Polish.
- 12. Diseases and hygiene People died because of typhus, also there were pediculosis and scabies. It was very difficult to stay clean because only small piece of soap could be taken from the cards. Children died because of diptheria. There were not injections and detergents.
- 13. Schools and work was very high, people In Poland unemploement became poorer and poorer. The salaries were so low that Polish had to sell all their possessions. Like in other countries, the unfree labour was established for people from 18 to 60, then that level was lower - from 14. All high schools and universities were closed down. Only primary schools could stay but with limited programme. Polish teachers and proffessors organised secret learning. They met with students in private flats to teach them.
- 14. Culture During the war many important for Poland works of art and monuments were destroyed or robbed. Cinemas, theatres, museums or sports objects were only for Germans. Polish could only used some cinemas but they boycotted them because of German films. There was popular slogan: „Only pigs sit in the cinema.”
- 15. Entertaintment in private houses. Polish organised entertaintment They prepared patriotic shows and poetic evenings. Teenagers organised parties with patephones which lasted to 6 a.m. because of police hour.
- 16. Conspiracy activity into conspiracy activity. Many Polish were involved They mainly fought with German propaganda, they published local newspapers, they organised millitary actions and prepared for fight.
- 17. . Authors: Angelika Łącz Klaudia Lulek Daria Babiarz