The document provides an overview of the Holocaust. It describes how the Nazis persecuted Jews starting in the 1930s by forming ghettos and passing laws like the Nuremberg Laws. It discusses key events like Kristallnacht and the establishment of camps like Auschwitz where many were killed through gas chambers, medical experiments, starvation or exhaustion. Over 6 million Jews were killed under Hitler's regime in the Holocaust during World War 2 before camps were liberated, though many survivors were left very weak.

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Students: Fran and Borna Bukulin
Teacher: Ivana Spajić
January 2015
Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića
Vinkovci
Erasmus+
Young citizens of Europe – our
future

2. What is the holocaust?
• persecution of Jews
• genocide
• original meaning
• contemporary meaning
• allegorical meaning

3. the beginning of the holocaust
The Nazi – formed 400 ghettos
throughout occupied Europe
where Jews were forced to live in
extreme poverty and inhumane
conditions.

4. Adolf Hitler
• Under his regime Jews (more than 5 million)
and Romani were exterminated in
the holocaust.
• anti-semitism – hatred of Jews

5. Crystal Night
• 9 November 1938
• Crystal Night

6. the Nuremberg laws
• 15 September 1935
• persecution of Jews, Romani
and others on racial basis

7. Nuremberg trial – 24 war criminals
sentenced

8. Camps
• The biggest death camp was Auschwitz.
• People in the camp were gassed, hanged, shot and beaten to
death.

9. Death campsWork camps
Cconcentration camps

11. Auschwitz
• Auschwitz is the biggest concenration camp of Nazi Germany.
• Most people were gassed,
others starved to death,
died of exhaustion, lack of
hygiene, medical experiments
or were excecuted.

12. Dr.Josef Mangele
“Angel of Death’’

13. Saving Jews
Raoul Wallenberg Carl Lutz Giorgio Perlasca

14. Liberation
• The liberators came across horrific scenes in all the camps.
• Dead people lay everywhere and the living looked like
skeletons.
• Many survivors were so weak they could
bearly move.

15. Consequences
• about 6 million Jews killed

16. Thank you for your
attention!