This slideshow is a VERY basic overview of the Holocaust using material extracted from my class' 8th grade U.S. History book.

1. The Holocaust

2. Why the Jews?
Prejudice against Jews common in Europe
Used as a scapegoat for Germany’s troubles after
WWI

3. Hitler Rises to
Power
Put members of Nazi party into
key gov’t positions.
Created Gestapo (secret
police)
created Nazi-run schools and
Nazi propaganda that printed
lies about Jews

4. Nuremberg Laws
1935
Jews must wear yellow Star of David.
Jewish businesses must be boycotted.
Took away all Jewish rights & their property.
Jews not allowed to: be judges, teachers, lawyers,
soldiers, or to marry Germans.

6. Kristallnacht“Night of Broken Glass”
Within 15 hours:
200 synagogues (temples) destroyed
7,500 Jewish stores looted & destroyed
More than 100 Jews killed...many more to come...
30,000 Jews rounded up & sent to concentration camps

7. Ghettos
Jews sent to live there.
Unsanitary and
crowded.
Small areas within a city
sealed off with high
walls and/or barbed
wire.

9. Hitler’s Final
Solution
Goal was to “exterminate” all Jews worldwide
Hard labor, torture, starvation.
Used mass killings and mass graves to hide the
evidence.
Used gas chambers, firing squads, and crematoriums.
6 million Jews killed; about 5 million non-Jews as well