The document outlines key aspects of the Holocaust, including the systematic attempt by Nazi Germany to rid Europe of its Jewish population through organized persecution and genocide. It describes the Nazi propaganda promoting antisemitism and Aryan supremacy. The tactics used against Jews included boycotts of Jewish businesses, threats of violence, segregation into ghettos under terrible conditions, and ultimately imprisonment and mass killings in concentration and death camps. As Allied forces advanced in Europe, they began liberating the camps and survivors.

1. The Holocaust

2. Vocabulary
Holocaust – Systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews
Anti-Semitism – Hatred and Discrimination against Jews
Aryan Supremacy – Belief in the superiority of the non-Jewish German race
Boycott – withdraw from commercial or social relations as punishment
Systematic – Carried out in an organized manner
Ghetto – Neighborhood where Jews were forced to live in terrible conditions
Synagogue – Jewish place of worship
Deportation – to be sent away
Liberate – to free

3. Anti-Semitism
Definition: “Prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people”
Nazi Propaganda Movie Poster “Der Sturmer”- Nazi Anit-Semitic Newspaper

5. Nazi Anti-Semitic children’s book, meant to
indoctrinate young Germans against Jews.

6. Nazi anti-Semitic newspapers posted throughout Germany, at bus stops, train stations, & parks.

7. Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s
Minister of Propaganda who
was responsible for the
Nazi’s Anti-Semitic campaign

8. Aryan Supremacy

9. Aryan Supremacy

10. The Nuremburg Laws

11. THE HOLOCAUST –
SYSTEMATIC ATTEMPT TO RID EUROPE
OF ALL JEWS

12. “Germans defend yourselves! Don’t buy from Jews”
Jewish Department Store in Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933
TACTIC #1: Boycott of Jewish Stores

13. TACTIC #1: Boycott of Jewish Stores

14. TACTIC #2: Threats
“I will never complain about the police again.”
Dr. Michael Siegel, a Jewish lawyer, Munich, Germany

15. TACTIC#2:Threats

16. TACTIC#2:Threats

17. TACTIC#2:ThreatsKristallnacht
“Night of Broken Glass”
November 9-10, 1938
Germany & Austria

18. KRISTALLNACHT

19. TACTIC #3: Segregation
Establishment of Jewish Ghettos throughout Nazi occupied Europe
Jewish businesses must be
marked with the Star of David.
Jewish Only Bench
Jewish Train Car
“Jews Forbidden”
Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam
Jewish Quarter

20. TACTIC #3: Segregation
Jewish Ghettos

21. TACTIC #3: Segregation
Jewish Ghettos

22. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April – May, 1943

23. TACTIC #4: Imprisonment and Killing in Concentration Camps
French Jews Prior to Departure

25. “Arbeit Macht Frei”
“Work Makes You Free”

26. Hitler’s FINAL SOLUTION:
Jews were deemed “Unfit
for Life” and
imprisoned/killed in
concentration and death
camps.

28. Liberation
As Allies began liberating Eastern and Western Europe, they began discovering
barbed wire encamptments filled with starved prisoners.
But these were not your POW’s…

29. Liberation by Allied
forces of Jews and
others who survived the
concentration camps
As the Germans began their retreat to
Berlin, the British, American, and Soviet
Allies began liberating concentration
camps throughout Europe.

32. M. Notes
1. _____________ is the hatred and prejudice against Jews.
2. __________________ Nazi belief that they were the superior race.
3. Holocaust was the ___________ attempt to rid Europe of all Jews.
4. Tactics Nazi’s used to carry out the Holocaust:
a. __________________________________
b. __________________________________
c. __________________________________
d. _____________________________________________________________
5. Jews and others who survived the concentration camps were
liberated by ______ forces.
Anti-Semitism
Aryan Supremacy
Systematic
Boycott of Jewish Stores
Threats
Segregation
Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps and death camps
Allied

33. Evacuation Movie Clip
Warsaw Ghetto
Digital Resources:
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