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THE HOLOCAUST
Pastor Martin Niemoller (victim of the Nazis)“First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out-
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out-
because I was not a communist.
then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out-
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.”
1935 Nuremberg Race Laws
M arry o r h av e sexw ith A rya ns
h ire A rya n w o m ena s m a ids
h a ve r ig h ts o fc i t izen sh ip
Je w s a re no t a llow e d to :
The Allies share responsibility- 1939
St. Louis – 907 Jews of all ages
Sign used during the anti-Jewish boycott: "Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don't buy in Jewish stores."
Germany, 1933
Antisemitic Boycott
Translation: “Don’t buy from Jews; Support German businesses!”
Kristallnacht
•1,668 synagogues were ransacked, and 267 set on fire•2,000-2,500 deaths were directly or indirectly attributable to the Kristallnacht pogrom
November 9, 1939
Jews forced to register and receiving their “papers”
The Yellow Star
The different symbols used to label camp prisonners
Construction of the wall surrounding Krakow
Jews await deportation to the Krakow ghetto
Later… evacuation of the Krakow Ghetto
Jewish citizens were forced in to cattle cars on the trains
Prisoners at a work camp
"The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch.
Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland at
one stroke."
- A Nazi newspaper, 1939
The gates to Auschwitz“Work will set you free”
Enormous collections of shoes and clothing symbolize the
dehumanization of Jews
Prisoner Bunkers
January 30th, 1939
“Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”
“Final Solution”
Reading from the United States Holocaust Museum- “The Final Solution”- http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007704
Mass graves
Death Marches
Dachau crematorium
6 000 000 Jews dead, 11 000 000 total
HISTORY- Taken from http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3581.htm The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was preceded by more than 50 years of efforts to establish a sovereign state as a homeland for Jews. These efforts were initiated by Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, and were given added impetus by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which asserted the British Government's support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
In the years following World War I, Palestine became a British Mandate and Jewish immigration steadily increased, as did violence between Palestine's Jewish and Arab communities. Mounting British efforts to restrict this immigration were countered by international support for Jewish national aspirations following the near-extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis during World War II. This support led to the 1947 UN partition plan, which would have divided Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under UN administration.
On May 14, 1948, soon after the British quit Palestine, the State of Israel was proclaimed and was immediately invaded by armies from neighboring Arab states, which rejected the UN partition plan. This conflict, Israel's War of Independence, was concluded by armistice agreements between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria in 1949 and resulted in a 50% increase in Israeli territory.
Genocides since the Holocaust
• Burundi 1972
• Cambodia 1975-79
• East Timor 1975 – 99
• Iraq 1988
• Bosnia 1992-95
• Rwanda 1994
• Sudan/Darfur 1983 to present
