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Do Now. 1) What was the Holocaust? 2) What were some of the ways that Hitler targeted the Jews?. Reminders. News Article Analysis due NOW!. 9.7- Holocaust. C oncentration camps were places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved often starved, tortured and killed .
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Do Now 1) What was the Holocaust? 2) What were some of the ways that Hitler targeted the Jews?
Reminders • News Article Analysis due NOW!
9.7- Holocaust • Concentration campswere places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved often starved, tortured and killed. • Most camps were located around huge centers of Jewish population- many were in Poland. • Extermination camps or death camps had the primary function of systematically killing people by gassing.
Prisoners • The largest numbers of prisoners were Jews and Russian prisoners of war. • In most camps, prisoners were forced to wear identifying overalls with colored badges.
Treatment • Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps through deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor. • Prisoners were transported in inhumane conditions by rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination.
Liberation • The camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945. • Why did the US not do anything to liberate the camps before 1944?
Should the` US have bombed the concentration camp Auschwitz? • 1) Read the question, then read the text. • 2) Complete the graphic organizer • 3) Complete the open-ended question
Exit Ticket • 1) What were the conditions in the concentration camps like? • 2) Do you think that the US should have tried to bomb the concentration camps?
