Inquiry Model Emma Crockett

What do these numbers have in

common? About 3,000,000 (about 91%)About 1,100,000 (about 36%)About 596,000 ( about 74%)About 200,000 (about 36%)About 77,320 (about 22%)About 287,000 (about 84%)About 65,000 (about 35%)About 143,000 (about 85%)About 100,000 (about 71%)About 71,150 (about 60%)About 80,000 (about 84%)About 71,000 (about 80%)About 67,000 (about 87%)About 28,900 (about 45%)About 7,680 (about 17%)About 2,000 (about 44%)

Approximately 6,025,000 (about 63%)

These are the approximate number of Jews that were

killed in the HolocaustAbout 3,000,000 Polish Jews killed (about 91% of the Jewish population)About 1,100,000 Russian Jews killed (about 36% of the Jewish population)About 596,000Hungarian Jews killed (about 74% of the Jewish population)About 200,000 German Jews killed (about 36% of the Jewish population)About 77,320 French Jews killed (about 22% of the Jewish population)About 287,000 Romanian Jews killed (about 84% of the Jewish population)About 65,000 Austrian Jews killed (about 35% of the Jewish population)About 143,000 Lithuanian Jews killed (about 85% of the Jewish population)About 100,000 Dutch Jews killed (about 71% of the Jewish population)About 71,150 Bohemian Jews killed (about 60% of the Jewish population)About 80,000 Latvian Jews killed (about 84% of the Jewish population)About 71,000 Slovakian Jews killed (about 80% of the Jewish population)About 67,000 Greek Jews killed (about 87% of the Jewish population)About 28,900 Belgium Jews killed (about 45% of the Jewish population)About 7,680 Italian Jews killed (about 17% of the Jewish population)About 2,000 Estonian Jews killed (about 44% of the Jewish population)

Approximately 6,025,000 Jews killed (63% of the European Jewish population)

Holocaust

Refers to a massive destruction of humans by other humans

The mass murder of European Jews and other by the Nazis during World War II

Genocide

the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

1942

The Beginning

January, 1933 Hitler is made chancellor

February, 1933 emergency powers are given to Hitler

March, 1933 Nazis open four concentration camps

March, 1933 Hitler becomes dictator April,1933 Nazis boycott Jewish

businesses April, 1933 Nuremburg Laws passed

From Bad to Worse

April, 1933 Gestapo formed May, 1933 Book burnings across

Germany July, 1933 Nazi Party is the only

party in Germany September, 1933 Jews are excluded

from the Arts and forbidden to own land

From Bad to Worse

May, 1934 Jews lose national health insurance

July, 1934 Jews are no longer citizens August, 1934 Hitler becomes Füher

and gets 90% of the popular vote approving his powers

May, 1935 Jews banned from the military

Nuremburg Laws

September 1935, Nuremburg Laws passed

Jews stripped of citizenship Prohibited marriage between Jews

and Aryan Germans Defined the Aryan race as a non-

Jewish Caucasian (particularly of Nordic race—blond hair, blue eyes) who is supposed to be part of the master race.

Swastika

The first 1935 decree established the swastika as the official emblem of the German state. This included the official change of the Jews were forbidden to display it. Such dispalys of citizenship were for "a national of Germany or kindred blood".

February, 1936 Gestapo placed above the law

January, 1937 Jews banned from many professional jobs

April, 1938 Jews forced to register wealth and property

June, 1938 Jews forced to register businesses

Jews prohibited from trading commercial services

July, 1938 Jews forced to carry an ID card

July, 1938 Jews prohibited from practicing medicine

August, 1938 Nuremburg synagogue destroyed by the Nazis

August, 1938 Women forced to put “Sarah” on all passports and legal documents; men forced to put “Israel” on all passports and legal documents

September, 1938 Jews prohibited from all legal practices

October, 1938 All Jewish passports stamped with a large red “J”

Kristallnacht

“The Night of Broken Glass”

Jews fined 1 billion marks for Kristallnacht damages

November, 1938 Jewish students expelled from non-Jewish schools

December, 1938 all Jewish businesses must be “Aryanized”

February, 1939 Jews forced to hand over all gold and silver items

April, 1939 Jews lose tenants rights and are placed into Jewish houses

July, 1939 Jews can no longer hold government jobs

September, 1939 Jews forbidden to have radios

October, 1939 Hitler proclaims isolation of Jews

Ghettos

October, 1939 Polish Jews age 14 to 60 forced into labor

November, 1939 Polish Jews over age 10 forced to wear yellow stars

February, 1940 the first German Jews are deported to concentration camps in Poland

Lodz Ghetto in Poland is sealed off with 230,000 Jews locked inside

April, 1940 Lodz Ghetto in Poland is sealed off with 230,000 Jews locked inside

November, 1940 Krakow Ghetto is sealed off with 70,000 Jews locked inside

November, 1940 Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off with 470,000 Jews locked inside

March, 1941 Jews ordered into forced labor

The Final Solution, 1940 Euphemistic name for both Nazi Germany's plan to

completely annihilate all European Jews and their attempt to do so between 1941 and 1945.

How to get rid of the Jews was a question answered by Adolf Hitler. His answer was to murder Jews throughout Europe along with other races that were believed to be sub-humans. This answer was called the “Final Solution,” a solution that started in the summer of 1941 and was believed to answer the “Jewish Question” and create an end to the Jews.

July, 1940 Hitler instructs his top officials to prepare for the “Final Solution”

Death Camps

A death camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus especially designed for mass murder. Six such camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Tremblinka. All were located in Poland.

1,500,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz; 360,000 at Chelmno; 250,000 at Sobibor; 600,000 at Belzec; and 840,000 at Treblinka.

December, 1941 first death camp is operational

June, 1942 SS report that “97,000 persons have been ‘processed’ in mobile gas vans”

September, 1942 Aushwitz burns bodies in open pits instead of burials; 107,000 corpses dug up and burned to prevent contamination of ground water

About 2 million Jews were rounded up and shot by German police. About 500,000 Jews died in the ghettos of Easter Europe from hunger, disease, exhaustion, or victims of random terror. About 3.3 million Jews were killed in gas chambers.

1,500,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz; 360,000 at Chelmno; 250,000 at Sobibor; 600,000 at Belzec; and 840,000 at Treblinka.

How many children were murdered during the Holocaust? The number of children killed during the Holocaust is not fathomable and full statistics for the tragic fate of children who died will never be known. Some estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionalized handicapped children who were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and occupied Europe.

Not just Jews

HomosexualsHandicapped PeopleGypsies

October, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia of sick and disabled

In the 13 years of Nazi reign in Germany,6,025,000 Jews lost their lives and 6,667,000 non-Jews lost their lives.

This make the total non-soldier count around 12,692,000 people in

13 years.

Did the Jews resist?Many Jews simply could not believe that Hitler really meant to kill them all. But once the Nazis had complete control and the Jews were being relocated to ghettos, rations were reduced, conditions were horrible and the Jews did not have the strength, physically, emotionally, or militarily, to resist. There were uprisings in the camps, but it was incredibly difficult and rarely successful. Elie Wiesel put it this way: "The question is not why all the Jews did not fight, but how so many of them did. Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the strength - spiritual and physical - to resist?"Those attempting to resist faced almost impossible odds.

Exit Ticket

"First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish, so I did not Speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."

-Martin Niemoller 1892 - 1948

What is the significance of this quote?

Bibliography

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http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TTQ03068/finalsolution.htm

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