Slide 1

Ghettos and Camps

Holocaust

“Final Solution”

Oct 1941 – order from S.S. Head down Nazi chain ofcommand with change to “Jewish problem”

Prior to this, vigorously encourage Jews to emigrate(Madagascar Plan)

Shift resulted in deportation of Jews to

camps and ghettos in the East

Systematic murder of millions of Jews

Photograph Source:http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/au28.html

Jewish children, kept alive in the Auschwitz II(Birkenau) pose in concentrationcamp uniforms between two rows of barbed wirefencing after liberation.

Wannsee Conference

January 20, 1942, Berlin suburb

Coordinate Nazi bureaucracy required to carry out “FinalSolution” including:

deportation of Jews to killing centers

Immediate death for those who were unable to work or the veryyoung, the old, and the weak

Segregation by gender of the

remaining Jews

Decimation through forced

labor with insufficient nourishment

Eventual death for the remaining

Photograph Source:http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/Wannsee/wanseeminutes.html

Ghettos

Purpose to create total confinement for Jewish population

Nazis hoped would deplete Jewish population quickly andnaturally through starvation, disease and cold.

Photograph Source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/2916_1548.html and http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/2916_138.html

Concentration Camps

Established in 1933 for imprisoning political opponents,extended to other “undesirables”

Dehumanize prisoners both physically and emotionally

Photograph Source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/41668-container.html

Photograph Source:http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/41668-container.html

Auschwitz, Poland, Prisoner no. 24288 & no. 22207

Death Camps

Great pains taken to deceive victims of their fate

From ghettos and concentration camps, told they were beingresettled to be put to work

Gas chambers with Zyklon B

At Auschwitz, able to ‘process’ death of 12,000 victims daily

Photograph Source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/1798-container.html

Testimonial: Sara Schichter

Source: http://www.mhmc.ca/en

Activity - Dear Diary Portfolio Entry

Let’s read Eva Heyman’s diary entries as a class, anddiscuss the Portfolio Entry activity