Jews in The Holocaust

• This map shows the distribution of Jews in Europe in 1933.

The total Jewish population of Europe at the time was about 9.5 million.

This number represented more than 60% of the world's Jewish population.

Jews represented 4% of Germany’s population before WWII

USHMM: HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005143&MediaId=358 (Dec, 07 2010)

Burning synagogue of Siegen during Kristallnacht of the 9th November, 1938The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database.

http://www.cympm.com/kristallnacht.html (Dec 07 2010)

Jews arrested during Kristallnacht line up for roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

November 1938.

Lorenz C. Schmuhl Papers, USHMM Archives.

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/img6pic.htm (Dec 07 2010)

Jewish emigration from Nazi-Germany prior to WWII The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database.

http://www.cympm.com/emigration.html (Dec 07 2010)

Social Darwinism

Nazi propaganda photo depicts friendship between an "Aryan" and a black woman. The caption states: "The result! A loss of

racial pride."USHMM. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005479&MediaId=637 (Dec 07,2010)

Eugenics

A Nazi chart incorporating Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, part of efforts to show how "racially mixed" parents produced "inferior"

offspring.

Pittsburg Post- Courtesy of USHMM, http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A21035

(Dec,07 2010)

Legislation based on Eugenics

• As a part of the Nuremberg Race LawsLaw for the Protection of

German Blood and German Honor

(September 15, 1935)The Reich Citizenship Law

(October 20, 1935)

A German farmer has his nose measured to check his Aryan “credentials”

USHMM: The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933-1939 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057 (Dec 07,2010)

Concentration Camps In Europe

• Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, 1939-1945.This map shows all extermination camps (or death camps), most major concentration camps, labor camps, prison camps, ghettos, major deportation routes and major massacre sites.

• Self-made by User:Dna-Dennis, using information from USHMM & Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WW2-Holocaust-Europe.png (Dec 07 2010)

Jewish mother executed while trying to save her baby from German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen)near Kiev, Ukraine

Główny Zarząd Polityczny WP (1960). Z Dziejów Wojny Wyzwoleńczej Narodu Polskiego 1939-1945, 255, Warszawa:Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej.

http://www.levandehistoria.se/files/pressimages/Ivangorod1942.jpg

Nazi gas van used to murder Jews at Chelmno extermination camp, Poland.

Archives of the Polish Ministry of Justice; http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/documents/chelmnovan.html

(Dec 07 2010)

Entrance into Auschwitz concentration camp. Sign reads: Work will set you free.

USHMM: Expansion of the Concentration Camps, 1939-1945 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007057 (Dec 07,2010)