Holocaust Unit

By Annabelle Ziemba

  • Treaty of Versalles

    After World War 1 Germany got the bad end of the stick. they had no money, no houses, nothing. So it was easy to per sway Germany.

  • Hyper Inflation

    Prices rise so fast it gets out of control. price of bread in Germany.

  • Beerhall Putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government.

  • Hitler on Trial

    Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany. Results:9 months in jail
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    Republic a Style of Government

    The president was a popular war hero named Hindenburg.
    But his health began to fail him in the early 1930's

  • Great Depression

  • Anne Frank is Born

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was a very intelligent person. Who convinced Germany after World War 1 about how he would make them a powerful country. After a few years Hitler started brainwashing people about how the perfect race, and how being Jewish was bad. Hindenburg makes Hitler his #3.
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    Holocaust

    The holocaust was a genocide, and tragic event , that involved killing 11 million people. The holocaust also was part of World War 2.

  • Reichstag Fire

    Hitler blames Communists for fire

  • Enabling Act of March

    Basically gives power of decision making to Hitler.
    Withing a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated
    This allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals
    At this time, we see an OFFICIAL BOYCOTT OF JEWISH BUSINESSES as well

  • Nuremberg Laws

    So the Nazi's know who is officially Jewish and who isn't. 3 or 4 grandparents that are considered Jewish then your Jewish. If 1 or 2 as "Mixed Blood".
    Jews: Took away citizenship
    Forbade Jews from marrying non-Jews
    Cannot fly the national flag

  • Kristallanchi

    When the Nazi's burned down all Jewish churches, and arrested every Jewish man on the street.

  • Nazis begin rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos

    Largest Ghettos were in cities like Warsaw or Lodz in Poland.
    Where there were walls and guards to keep people from getting out.
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    World War II

  • Euthanasia Program

    Systematically killing those deemed "unworthy of life"
    due to physical disability or mental illness: 80,000 people

  • Germany Invades Poland

    What started the War.
    3 Million Jews in it's population
    Got more land that he asked for

  • Wannsee Conference

    Nazi Leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS
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    Einsatzgruppen

    As the army advanced into the Soviet Union, these groups would round up Jews from the newly occupied areas and kill them... usually by shooting.

  • Anne Frank's Family Goes into Hiding

    Anne Frank and her family went into hiding because they moved away to get a way from the Nazi's, but by the time that they got there the Nazi's had already taken over, so they went into hiding because they didn't want to be caught and sent a way to concentration camps because they were Jewish. They went into hiding with another family also, they went in hiding is Amsterdam which is in the Netherlands.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Residents smuggled weapons in
    Uprising lasted for about a month
    SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended
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    Camp Rebelions

    Prisoners fought back at death camps Auschwitz Birkenau members of the Sounderkommando working in the creamatorium ;fought SS guards
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    Death Marches

    Allies advancing toward death camps
    nazis evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture
    Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way

  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

    Liberation: When you set someone who was imprisoned free.

  • Liberation

    Camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Commits suicide rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army. Germany surrenders within a week

  • Mr.Frank Returns to the Annex and Finds Anne's Diary

    When Mr.Frank comes bavck everything is all messy and everywhere. Why her diary was so meaninful to people was because it gave us a lot of information about the Holocaust and how it was like to be a Jew at the time.
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    What Now?/ Nuremburg Trials

    The Allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity.
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    What happened to the Survivors

    Displaced Persons Camps-Areas for former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent place to live.