The document summarizes key events of the Holocaust, including the 1935 Nuremberg Laws that stripped Jewish people of their citizenship and rights in Germany. It describes Kristallnacht in 1938 when Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed, and thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The "Final Solution" referred to the Nazi plan for genocide and extermination of European Jews in camps using gas chambers and crematoriums. Resistance was difficult as Jews were weakened and could not believe the extent of the atrocities.

1. The Holocaust

2. Nuremberg Laws
• In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws decreed
that only persons of “German blood”
(Aryans) could be citizens of Germany.
• Non-Aryans or “impure blood” were said
to be inferior status.
• These laws regulated what the Jewish
people could do.

3. Nuremberg Laws
• These laws were
meant to degrade
the Jewish people.
• Marriages between
Jews and German
blood are
forbidden.
• Jews are forbidden
to fly the Reich or
National flag.

4. Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
means “the
Night of
Broken
Glass.”

5. Kristallnacht
• Jewish homes, shops, synagogues and
businesses were looted and destroyed.
• Thousands of Jews were arrested.
• Hundreds of Jews were killed.

6. Kristallnacht
Thousands of Jews were arrested and
taken to already established
concentration camps. The next step
was to expel Jews from their home,
isolate them in ghettos and finally
confine them to prison and labor camps.

7. Kristallnacht

8. What is a concentration
camp?
Concentration camps
were work or death
camps located in
Germany and Poland to
incarcerate and
exterminate Jews,
Gypsies and others
deemed “undesirable”
by the Nazis.

9. Concentration Camps
There were many
concentration camps
such as:
• Auschwitz
• Birkenau
• Buchenwald
• Dachau

10. Entrance to the gate at
Auschwitz

11. Birkenau 1942

12. Survivors of Buchenwald

13. Behind the wire at Dachau

14. Ghettos
Jews could also be
taken to Ghettos.

15. Ghettos
A ghetto is a section of
a city in which Jews
were required to live
surrounded by walls.

16. Ghettos were surrounded by:
• Brick or stone walls
• Wooden fences
• Barbed wire
• Jews were under
constant watch by
Nazi soldiers

17. Ghetto Living Conditions
They were filled with
hunger and disease.
(Starving Jewish boy
in Warsaw Ghetto
1942)

18. HITLER’S
FINAL SOLUTION

19. “Final Solution”
The Final Solution was
a Nazi code word for
the physical
extermination of
European Jews.

20. “Final Solution”
They used many
methods to kill the
Jews such as gas
chambers and
crematories.

21. Why didn’t the Jews resist?
There were many reasons why
the Jews did not resist…

22. Why didn’t they resist?
• not military prepared
• were physically and spiritually weakened from
starvation and disease
• could not believe it could be so horrible and
thought that the war would soon be over
• instances of resistance or rebellion led to
hundreds being killed

23. Why did the Holocaust
happen?
• Hitler had just taken Germany out of the
Great Depression and was regarded as
a hero.
• Hilter had pure hatred for the Jews
• Hitler had an ideal image of a superior
German race.