1. The Holocaust began in 1936 in Germany and lasted until 1945. Adolf Hitler rose to power as the leader of Germany's Nazi party in 1933 and instituted racist laws targeting Jews. 2. The Nazi regime created ghettos and concentration camps, where they imprisoned and starved Jewish people. They also conducted medical experiments on prisoners. 3. Over six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust through mass executions, starvation, and gas chambers at concentration camps like Auschwitz. Allied forces liberated camps in 1945 and discovered the horrific atrocities.

1. The Holocaust 1936-1945 *This Presentation Contains Many Graphic Images By Deborah Alcorn 2006-2007

4. Jewish Refugees in the 1800s

6. Adolf Hitler

10. Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hesse

14. The Nazis Burned Books by “un-German” Authors

15. “ Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.” Written one hundred years before the Holocaust by German poet Heinrich Heine

16. Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass Berlin, Germany April 16, 1941

17. Broken Windows in a Jewish Business

18. A Destroyed Synagogue

20. Destroyed Synagogue

22. Guards in Front of the Warsaw Ghetto

23. The Warsaw Ghetto

25. Homeless Children in the Ghetto

27. Dying Child on the Street of a Ghetto

28. The Mass Killing Begins

29. Awaiting Execution

30. Waiting for Death

32. Restraining a Man Who Did Not Die Right Away

33. 25,000 Executed at One Time

34. Transport

35. Children Lined Up to Be Deported

36. Being Loaded into Boxcars

39. Arrival at the Camp

41. The Concentration Camps and Death Camps

44. Babies It did not matter that they were babies. They were future adult Jews. Babies were frequently killed by bashing their heads against a wall, by tossing them in the air for target practice, or, if a mother would not give her child up, they would shoot the baby and mother with one bullet.

47. Barracks

48. Prisoners Marching Inside the Camp

50. Loading an Ill Prisoner into a Truck

51. The Women Are Pulling a Rail Car Loaded with Rocks

53. Burning Bodies

55. Dead Children

56. Work Makes You Free

57. The Gas Chambers

59. This Gas Chamber Was Designed to Look Like a Shower Room in a Gymnasium. .

62. Crematoria

66. Gypsy Children Used in Medical Experiments

67. Liberation

69. On April 12, 1945, Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George Patton visited Ohrdruf concentration camp. Eisenhower wrote to Chief of Staff General George Marshall, to report, “….the things I saw beggar description.” The evidence of starvation and bestiality was “so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick.” Eisenhower visited “every nook and cranny.” It was his duty, he said, “to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief… ‘that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.’” Eisenhower issued an order for every American unit in the area to visit the camp.

71. Allies Discover Prisoners’ Bodies in a Boxcar

72. The locals are forced to view dead prisoners.

73. Eisenhower also issued a call to the press back home. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., the dean of American journalists, viewed the camps. He initially had a “suspicious frame of mind,” and expected that many of the terrible reports were exaggerations and largely propaganda. However, he said the initial reports were understatements. Within days, congressional delegations visited the camps, along with journalists and photographers.

74. Polish Children

76. Edward R. Murrow of CBS gave a stunning, matter-of-fact description of the piles of emaciated bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp during his radio broadcast on April 15, 1945. He said, “I pray to you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it; for most of it I have no words.” He added, “If I have offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I am not in the least sorry.”

77. Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen

78. Walking Among Dead Bodies

79. Arrow points to Elie Wiesel

80. “ First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade-unionists and I did not speak out-- because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.” Pastor Martin Niemoller

81. More than six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.