anne frank slides

1. ANNELISES MARIE FRANK Born June 12, 1929 Died Early March 1945

7. JEWISH POPULATION BEFORE AND AFTER WWII

8. Anti -Semitism This is the term given to political, social and economic agitation against Jews. In simple terms it means ‘Hatred of Jews’. Aryan Race This was the name of what Hitler believed was the perfect race. These were people with full German blood, blonde hair and blue eyes.

9. A MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS.

10. Between 1939 and 1945 six million Jews were murdered, along with hundreds of thousands of others, such as Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, disabled and the mentally ill.

11. 16 of the 44 children taken from a French children’s home. They were sent to a concentration camp and later to Auschwitz. ONLY 1 SURVIVED A group of children at a concentration camp in Poland.

12. Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp. Before poison gas was used , Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment. Victims were dead by the time they reached the burial site.

13. Jewish women, some holding infants, are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.

14. Smoke rises as the bodies are burnt.

15. A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution.

16. Portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child who was among the 33,771 persons shot by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar, September, 1941.

18. Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September of 1941. In 1943, when the number of murdered Jews exceeded 1 million. Nazis ordered the bodies of those buried to be dug up and burned to destroy all traces.

19. It is important to remember that it was not only the Jews who were to experience any form of prejudice within Germany … communists, gypsies, homosexuals, also faced persecution...

20. The Nazis placed a great emphasis upon encouraging the children to view what Hitler was doing as being right Posters encouraged children into recognising that Hitler was a saviour. Schools became places to pick on the Jews Various efforts were made to ensure that the children were brought up to believe that the Jews were inferior and a danger to German people. The next page shows you

21. Two extracts from school books. The one on the left shows you the dangers of Jews and Germans marrying Children would be brought to the front of the class to see if they could be classified as Jews or not. If they were, then they would be humiliated

22. In 1938, the situation took a more serious turn for the worst. Called the Night of Broken Glass, the Nazis start to use violence against the Jews Jewish shops, churches and other buildings were openly attacked. People became subjected to violence It would lead to the start of more systematic violence...

24. By 1941, the Jews were to be moved to concentration camps They usually arrived by railway. Camps like Auschwitz and Dachau were more than just concentration camps Jews from all over Europe were forced to work here … then from 1941 - 42 onwards...

25. There was the Holocaust … around 6 million Jews lost their lives in these death camps... … these camps can still be found. Mostly in countries like Poland, they are a grim reminder of what racism can lead to...