SEPTEMBER 22, 2014DO NOW: WHAT IS A

CATASTROPHE? LIST TWO EXAMPLES OF A

CATASTROPHE.

Catastrophe – An event resulting in great loss or misfortune.

GENOCIDE – ANY ATTEMPT TO DESTROY MEMBERS OF A GROUP IN WHOLE OR IN PART.

This includes killing members of a group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm

to members of the group. Deliberately inflicting on the group

conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

GENOCIDE CONTINUED The word Genocide didn’t exist before

the Holocaust. It was invented as away of explaining what happened.

The Genocide that occurred during the Holocaust is one of the reasons for the formation of the United Nations.

HOLOCAUST – THE SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTION AND ANNIHILATION OF EUROPEAN JEWS BY NAZI GERMANY BETWEEN 1933-1945. The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of

approximately 11 million people. Approximately 6 million of those deaths

were Jews. The Holocaust is largely studied as a

Jewish struggle because although Jews weren’t the only targets, every Jew was a potential target.

2/3rds of European Jews were killed.

HOLOCAUST DEATHS BY THE NUMBERS Hundreds of thousands of Sinta-Roma

(Gypsies). 250,000 Physically or mentally

handicapped. More than 3 million Soviet Prisoners. About 2 million Poles. Roughly A million Slavs that were

targeted for slave labor. Thousands of Homosexuals,

Communists, Socialists, Trade Unionists, and Jehovah’s Witnessess

THE HOLOCAUST IS THE MOST WELL-DOCUMENTED GENOCIDE IN HISTORYSources of Information: Newspapers Diaries Photographs Documentaries Personal accounts from survivors and

perpetrators Artifacts

IN SPITE OF ALL THE EVIDENCE SOME DENY THE HOLOCAUST EVER HAPPENED.

REASONS WE STUDY THE HOLOCAUST 1. The number of deaths. 2. It helped inspire the creation of the

UN. 3. Because it is so well-documented,

studying the Holocaust and its causes can help to recognize and prevent future genocides.

4. It’s a part of history 5. Some still try and deny that it ever

happened.