1. Rescue and Resistance By: Josh Lewandowski, Allan Dick, Chad Reed, Brandon Marshall, Cody Saville, and Jordan Phillips

2. Liberation of Nazi concentration camps Concentration camps starved and tortured prisoners. Nazis tried to hide the mass murder by burning the concentration camps. Prisoners would be moved on “death marches” The torture of these prisoners was unjust and people started to act out to help them.

3. Liberation zweiterteil (part two) Once people found out they started to try to shut them down. Soviets started to stop these acts, they liberated many camps such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka and all of those were killing centers. The U.S. eventually liberated five different camps. The British also liberated two concentration camps. Preceding info came from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005131

4. The United States and the Holocaust The U.S. did not care about the treatment of Jews Due to anti-Semitism, isolationism, economic depression, and xenophobia (prejudice against or fear of foreigners) in the United States. The U.S. State Department also delayed publicizing reports of genocide. President Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board (WRB) in 1944. However by the time of the WRB opening four fifths of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust were already dead. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005182

5. Jewish Resistance Jewish people formed resistances to rebel against Nazi forces. They normally used hand grenades, molotov cocktails, and small arms. Resistance happened In concentration camps In ghettos In Germany In occupied countries Information on this and the following two slides were obtained from www.ushmm.org and www.wikipedia.org

6. Warsaw Ghetto Resistance In response to Germans deporting Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Many Jewish organizations formed a resistance known as the Jewish Combat Organization. The uprising came to a stand still on May 16, 1943

7. Sobibόr October 1943 Jews in the Sobibόr extermination camp, held an uprising 11 German Commanding officers were murdered. About half of the inmates escaped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW2-Holocaust-Poland.PNG

8. Rescuers Rescuers of the Holocaust were simple people like you and me that stood up against everyone else to take a huge risk in saving mankind. Many rescuers were from all walks of life such as the peasants, nannies, aristocrats and clergy, bakers, doctors, social workers, storekeepers, school children, police officers, diplomats and grandmothers.

9. Rescuers Rescuers were people from all different nations trying to save the people they loved. They came from places like Ukraine, The Netherlands, Poland, Germany, France, Hungary, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Belgium and many more nations.

10. Rescuers People that risked their lives to save Jewish people generally didn’t view them as the enemy, but as regular human beings. They also believed that one person could make a difference so they tried to save everyone that they could.

11. Refugees Between 1933 and 1945, which was the rise and fall of the Nazi’s, more than 340,000 Jews emigrated from Germany and Austria. However, only 100,000 found refuge in other countries. In late 1938, around 125,000 immigrants lined up outside the U.S. borders. They were hoping to get 1 of 27,000 visas left. In 1939, many Jews emigrated to Shanghai. Shanghai did not require a visa to get in. They only accepted 17,000 Jews.

12. Refugees cont. These refugees are from the Sudetenland. They arrived in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1938 following the Sudetenland annexation by Germany.

13. Non-Jewish Resistance The Jews weren’t the only group that the Nazis didn’t like. They also did not like: Gypsies, Slavic peoples, Catholics, non-whites, political opponents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. Many of these groups resisted the Nazi Regime. Pictured here is an example of non-Jewish resistance to the Nazi Regime Picture from http://threatquality.com/2009/12/22/everybody-wants-to-punch-hitler-in-the-face/

14. Examples of Non-Jewish Resistance In April 1940, a resistance movement began operations in Nazi-occupied Denmark. This resistance movement killed informers, raided Nazi facilities, and sabotaged rail roads. In 1941 the Dutch population began a strike in protest of the horrible treatment of the Jews. In 1944 the Polish Home Army began a revolt, which the Nazis put down in two months. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005420