The The HoloHolocaustcaustStudents: Fran and Borna BukulinTeacher: Ivana SpajićJanuary 2015

Osnovna škola Bartola KašićaVinkovciErasmus+Young citizens of Europe – our future

What is the holocaust?

• persecution of Jews

• genocide

• original meaning

• contemporary meaning

• allegorical meaning

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.

Adolf Hitler

• Under his regime Jews (more than 5 million)

and Romani were exterminated in

the holocaust.

• anti-semitism – hatred of Jews

Crystal Night

• 9 November 1938• Crystal Night

the Nuremberg laws

• 15 September 1935• persecution of Jews, Romani and others on racial basis

Nuremberg trial – 24 war criminals sentenced

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

death.

Death campsWork camps

Cconcentration camps

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.

Dr.Josef Mangele “Angel of Death’’

Saving Jews

Raoul Wallenberg Carl Lutz Giorgio Perlasca

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.

Consequences

•  about 6 million Jews killed

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