the holocaust: historical context for night
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Nazi Persecution
• Red = Political
• Green = Criminals
• Blue = Immigrant
• Purple = Jehovah’s
Witness
• Pink = Homosexual, Sex
Offenders
• Black = Disabled
• Yellow = Jewish
Major Events Leading to the Holocaust
1933 – Nazi Party rules Germany; Hitler appointed
Germany’s Chancellor
1933 – Dachau concentration camp is built
1935 – Nuremburg Laws govern Jews in Germany
1938 – Kristallnacht; Jewish children expelled from German
schools
1939 – Germany invades Poland; WWII begins; Polish
Jews ordered into ghettos; “euthanasia” of disabled
begins in Germany
1940 – Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland;
mass murders of Jews begin
1941 – Einsatzgruppen begin systematic slaughter of Jews
Major Events Leading to the Holocaust
1941 – In 2 days, Einsatzgruppen kill 33,771 Ukranian Jews
1942 – “The Final Solution” is implemented; plan for mass
extermination of all European Jews
1942 – Death camps are fully operational; utilize gas
chambers to exterminate thousands of Jews during
peak operation; 6 million Jews are killed over a
5-year period
Concentration Camps
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Buna
• Buchenwald
• Death Camps (6)
were all located in
Poland
• 13 main camps with
over 500 satellite
camps