Non jewish victims of the holocaust

Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust Jan Courtney ASC 4170 - Dowling March 2011

Mauthausen Concentration Camp ,[object Object],Female inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp, 1945 Soviet prisoners of war at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, January 1942

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The Dead at Mauthausen , April 1945

Roma (Gypsies) ,[object Object],[object Object],Example of a gas van used at Chelmno Nazi “Racial Doctor” Robert Ritter questions a Gypsy woman. Ritter characterized Gypsies as a “primitive” people incapable of real social adaptation.

Polish Victims of the Holocaust ,[object Object],“ All Poles will disappear from the world. . . . It is essential that the great German people should consider it as a major task to destroy all Poles .” - Heinrich Himmler

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Father Maximilian Kolbe ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Systematic Killing of the Handicapped Five handicapped prisoners photographed at Buchenwald concentration camp for propaganda purposes. 1938 – 1940 Hartheim Castle was a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria

Anti-Nazi Resistance in the Netherlands ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Ten Boom Family Corrie Ten Boom

Evil Personified versus Righteous Among the Nations In 1968, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Yad Vashem) asked Corrie to plant a tree in the Garden of Righteousness, in honor of the many Jewish lives her family saved. Corrie’s tree stands there today along with a plaque in her memory. Hitler was responsible for the death of more than 5.9 million Jews (close to two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population).

Black Victims of the Holocaust The Nazis did not uphold the regulations imposed by the Geneva Convention in the treatment of black prisoners. Black prisoners of war faced illegal incarceration and mistreatment at the hands of the Nazis.

Jesse Owens debunks Aryan superiority ,[object Object],[object Object],“ Jesse Owens’ greatest opposition didn’t run the 100m. There’s more to the story than just the game.” July 2009 Sports Illustrated ad campaign (South Africa)

Homosexual Targets of the Holocaust ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Those defined as homosexuals were designated by a pink triangle (Jews who were homosexuals were killed because they were Jews).

Richard Grune ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer ,[object Object],Bonhoeffer’s letters and theological works still influence Christians throughout the world. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian

Jehovah’s Witnesses ,[object Object],[object Object],Helene Gotthold, a Jehovah’s Witness, was beheaded for her religious beliefs on Dec. 8, 1944 in Berlin. Here, she is pictured with her children in June 1936.

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American POWs ,[object Object],[object Object],Lying on stretchers are some of the 63 emaciated American POWs liberated in Fuchsmuehl, Germany.

“ No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century… “… but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.” - Benjamin Netanyahu

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