THE HOLOCAUST
Chelmno was a death camp located in Poland by the border with Germany. The killing began December 8,1941 when the Nazis began to kill the local Jewish population by forcing them into the back of a truck and pumping in exhaust fumes. Then the Nazis brought the corpses to mass graves. They continued to use this method until the grave began to stink. Then they began to burn the bodies in open-air ovens and used selected Jewish people, called the Sonderkommando, to maintain them. After all the Jewish people in the area were killed they began to purge the Lodz Ghetto. In 1944 the killings stopped in Chlemno as the last of the people were sent to Auswitch-Birkenau. The bodies were still being burned for another year until the Soviet Union approached. There have been only seven people known to have escaped Chlemno, and they were: Mordechai Podchlebnik, Milnak Meyer, Abraham Tauber, Abram Roj, and a mysterious Szlamek.
Vocabulary
Nuremberg Laws
Who: Jewish people What: it took away their citizenship and right to choose Where: Nazi Germany When:1935 Why: to Persecute the Jewish faith into extinction How: It took away their rights leaving them open to attack Kristallnacht Who: Jewish businesses What: Germans gathered and destroyed Jewish property Where: Germany When: Nov. 9, 1938 Why: to frighten the Jews into submission How: People gathered into mobs and destroyed businesses and homes that belonged to Jewish people Gestapo Who: German secret police What: they hunted out the enemies of state Where: all over Nazi territory When: During the Nazi Regime Why: they did this to protect the Fürer How: they terrorized Jewish people and made German citizens fear them enough so that no one would dare to rise up against them St. Louis Affair Who: A boat full of refugees from Germany What: The boat came to the USA to give these people refuge from Hitler, but the USA sent them back Where: off the coast of Florida When: 1939 Why: the USA sent them back because of nativism and isolationism How: The USA was afraid of the spread of Facism The Final Solution Who: The Jewish people What: It was the decision on how to kill the Jewish people Where: Mostly Poland When: 1942 Why: the Nazis held extremely racist views against the Jewish people How: The Nazis began to deport Jewish people to extermination camps Wannsee Conference Who: German officials What: this was the conference that decided the Final Solution Where: In a suburb of Berlin When: 1942 Why: The Nazis held racist views against the Jewish faith How: The officials decided that the best way to kill the Jewish people was to exterminate them Concentration camps Who: Jewish people and the "Enemies of the State" What: They were places that people were worked to death Where: Mostly in Germany When: after 1942 till the end of the Nazi Regime Why: The Germans needed cheap labor How: The Gestapo rounded up people and decided if they were healthy. If they were, they would be sent to a concentration camp. Extermination camps Who: Jewish People and "Enemies of the State" What: They were place that people were sent to die. Where: Mostly in Poland When: after 1942 till the end of the Nazi Regime Why: The Nazis held anti semitic views How: The Gestapo rounded up people and decided if they were healthy. If they were NOT, they would be sent to an extermination camp. |
Questions
1. A fundamental right is the ability to choose. The Nazis took away this from the Jews and forced them to abide by their laws. They took away their citizenship, their right to own wealth, and their right to marry who they pleased. Jewish people did not flee these atrocities immediately because they thought that this was only a temporary phase, and they wanted to stay.
2. Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish population with the Final Solution. He sent Jews, Disabled people, Homosexuals, and other groups that did not meet his standards. Hitler had ordered the deaths of more than 6 million people.
3. I think that the USA would not have been able to stop the Holocaust. he Great Depression sapped the power and funds of the USA and greatly reduced its ability to affect foreign affairs. Plus the disappointment from WW1 taught the american people to avoid foreign affairs. Nobody wanted to be involved so even if the government had pressed the issue, the public would have refused to send funding to foreing affairs.
2. Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish population with the Final Solution. He sent Jews, Disabled people, Homosexuals, and other groups that did not meet his standards. Hitler had ordered the deaths of more than 6 million people.
3. I think that the USA would not have been able to stop the Holocaust. he Great Depression sapped the power and funds of the USA and greatly reduced its ability to affect foreign affairs. Plus the disappointment from WW1 taught the american people to avoid foreign affairs. Nobody wanted to be involved so even if the government had pressed the issue, the public would have refused to send funding to foreing affairs.