Ch 32-3

The Holocaust

32.3-The Holocaust.pdf

Group Discussions

Why do you think that an event is horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?

Standards:

I-C.8 Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and impacts of World War II from various perspectives.

Objectives:

Trace the course of persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.

Describe the results of the final solution.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: Why do you think that an event as horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?

The Holocaust begins

Night of broken glass

A flood of refugees

Isolating the Jews

The Holocaust Begins

Night of Broken Glass

Survivors Remember Kristallnacht: Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger

Refugees (1945)

The final solution

The killings begin

The final stage

The survivors

Band of Brothers- Liberation of Concentration Camp

The Pianist

The Pianist wandering Through the empty Ghetto

Vocabulary:

Aryans

Germanic peoples

Holocaust

Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis

Kristallnacht

"night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany

Ghettos

Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

"Final Solution"

Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible

Genocide

Systematic killing of an entire people