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Today's planning
4.6 The Holocaust
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What is the Holocaust?
De term holocaust comes from the Ancient Greek and means 'burnt offering’. It was already used before WWII to describe the death of a large group of people. But since 1945 it is used for the murder of European Jews during WWII.
Jews also call it the Shoah, which is Hebrew for ‘catastrophe'.
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Beginning of the end
Operation Barbarossa: invasion Sovjet Union in 1941
Einsatzgruppen exterminate Jewish communities
Nazitop in Berlin is afraid for psychological consequences for the Einsatzgruppen and the ammunition is very expensive.
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Beginning of the end
Reinhard Heydrich is commissioned to come up with a solution, the: Endlösung
Wannsee conference:
in extermination camps, part of the Jewish people will work themselves to death and the rest will be killed with the gas Zyklon B.
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Slide 6 - Vidéo
"Toen het doden van mensen gereduceerd werd tot een industrieel proces leek het alsof we niet meer menselijk waren."
-Auschwitz-overlevende
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Transport
Camp Westerbork in Drenthe was a transit camp.
More than 100,000 Dutch Jews and 245 Sinti and Roma were transported to extermination and concentration camps in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Anne Frank is also transported from here to Auschwitz.
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Memorial
In the Netherlands there is a National Holocaust Names Monument with the names of 102,000 people who never received a grave. A place where relatives can commemorate their murdered family.
