3.3 Holocaust

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

The Holocaust

Scedule a test

31 January

The Holocaust

= murder on 6 milion Jews during WOII

* Shoah

* Attempt to wipe out all the Jews

History of anti-Semitism

= Hatred against Jews 

* Minority in Christian Europe

* Own language, customs and religion

* Scapegoat

* Blamed for disasters and epidemics

Antisemitism in Europe

* Jews blamed for problems in Germany

* First goal -> emigration

* Bullying them away

Step 1: Exclusion

* Treat unequal

* Neurenberg Race Laws 1935

* Second row citizens

- Marriages between Jewish and non-Jewish became illegal

- Jews no loger allowed in government

* Fired

Step 2: Isolation

* Seperated

* J in your pasport

* Jewstar / davidstar

* Jewish departments

* Fences and barbed wire

Step 3: Deportation

* 1942

* Round-ups

= campaign in an area with the aim of seizing all the Jews

* Fled or went into hiding

* Westerbork -> transit camp

Step 4: Elimination

* Rule out the Jews

* Shot

* Costs a lot of manpower and time

'Endlosung'

* Extermination camps

* Auschwitz

* Workcamps

* Exhaustion and sickness

* Political opponents, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti

The Last Days

Documentary about 5 Jews who survived the concentration camps

Make the assignments of paragraph 3.3

Assignment 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13