history- the holocaust Flashcards
Which groups faced persecution during the Holocaust
Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses, disabled, etc
Righteous persons
Non Jews who risked their lives to save Jewish people’s in the Holocaust
Poland
Largest population of Jews -> all 6 death camps locate here for efficiency
Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas where they lived
Therienstadt ghetto
Red Cross went to ghetto and nazis made everyone out on a play that everything was Great
Warsaw ghetto
Uprisings here
Aushwitz-Birkenau
A combination camp that has many survivors because it was both a death camp and a Work camp
Sobibor
Was turned into a death camp -> Jews tried to blow hole in the wall by slowly bringing gunpowder -> didn’t work bc eventually captured again
Genocide
The intentional Killing of a specific entire people
Holocaust
Systematic murder of over 11 million ppl across Europe over half were Jews
Scapegoat
Blamed Jews for eveyrthing, so they had a reason for killing them
Master race
Pure Germans (aryans)
Boycott
Government-sanctioned boycotts of Jewish stores and businesses
Book burning
Anything that was written by Jews, had enlightenment ideas, or downgraded the German master race
Nuremberg laws
Restrictions against Jews
Nuremberg laws examples
Can’t take jobs where they have influence over people
Can’t have jobs where they’re seen as heroes
Can’t marry a non Jew
No citizenship
Jews Names eraser from ww1 memorials
Can’t shop at Aryan stores
Definition of a Jew
Kristallnacht (night of broken glass)
Jewish boy’s dad was deported after living here for long time -> boy shot a nazi diplomat-> gave nazis a reason to do kristallnacht where they killed Jews, destroyed homes and stores
Concentration camps
Work camp
Taken to concentration camps by …
Cattle carb
Two types of camps
Concentration camps (work camps)
Or death camps
Separated by strength
Identification symbols in concentration camps
Yellow Star of David stitched into suits, or upside down triangles in different colors
First phase of Holocaust and what happened
Legal persecution :
Government sanctioned boycotts
Nuremberg laws
Second phase
Expulsion and deportation:
Ghettos and concentration camps
Third phase
Final solution:
Death camps
Resistance to Holocaust
Ghetto revolts
Inmates in concentration camps revolt
Righteous Persons group
Nuremberg trials
People who carried out Holocaust are put on trial for crimes against humanity (1st time doing it for this)
Most punished with death
