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Stereotypes, Racism and

the Holocaust
A Personal History by
Manis Dad

The Jewish People

JEWISH
An ethnic group

Language
History
Ancestry
Physical appearance

JUDAISM
A religion
Beliefs
Traditions
Rituals

You are considered Jewish if your mom is Jewish or

you have converted to Judaism.

Stereotype
Definition
a widely held but fixed
and oversimplified
image or idea of a
particular type of
person or thing.

Example
______________ are all
bad/stupid/lazy/
smart/athletic/rich.

Prejudice
Definition
Opinion based on
ignorance.
Not based on reason
or actual experience.

Example
I dont like people in
Racial Group, so I
dont like Bob
because he is a
member
of___________ group.

Discrimination
Definition
Unfair treatment of
people based on
ethnicity, religion,
race, age, or sex.

Example
Bob applied for a
job in my company,
but I wont hire him,
because
hes_____________.

Racism
Definition
Prejudice,
discrimination, or
antagonism directed
against someone of a
different race based
on the belief that
one's own race is
superior.

Example

Racism in the USA

Segregation
The rule or practice
of separating people
of different races,
classes, or ethnic
groups. Forcing them
to have different
schools, housing, and
public facilities.

White Students Protesting Racial

Integration of Schools

Between 1933 and 1945, the German

government led by Adolf Hitler and the
Nazi Party carried out the systematic
persecution and murder of Europes Jews.
This genocide is now known
as the Holocaust.

At the time, Germany was one of the worlds most

technologically advanced countries in the world, much like
the USA is today.
Germany practiced discrimination against Jews just like the
US did against blacks, Hispanics and other groups.
But Germany took this much further and in much more violent
ways.

Nazi Germany killed the people it thought were

inferior.
It wasnt just Jews.
They also killed Gypsy people, gay people, people
with handicaps, Polish and Russian people,
members of the Communist party, and Germans
that didnt agree with what they were doing.

DEFINTIONS:

HOLOCAUST

A PROGRAM OF MASS MURDER

Example of Jews and the slave trade.

GENOCIDE
THE ANNIHILATON OF ENTIRE RACE OF
PEOPLE
Example of Jews and native people in USA
and Mexico.

Stereotypes of Jews

My Dads Family

Jews had lived in

Germany, Poland,
Austria and other
European countries
for hundreds of
years.

The Aryan Nation

The government of Germany believed
that the Aryan people were a
different and superior race than the
Jewish people.
They told their people that the Jews
were the cause of all the bad things
in the world.
The Nazis defined the Jewish people
as a disease that would destroy the
health of the German nation.
Hitler and his government taught the
German people that getting rid of the
Jews would make them safe.
That made it okay to take away the
rights of Jews, to take their property,
to relocate them, and eventually to
murder them because they were no
longer seen as human beings.

Stereotypes make Racism

Possible

Nazi Schools Taught Racism

Aryan children taught
that they were superior
to all other races.
Taught that Adolf Hitler
was the most
important person in
the world.
His birthday was a
national holiday and
his picture was
everywhere.

1934
Jews are not
allowed to have
national health
insurance
Hitler becomes
Der Fuherer and
receives a 90%
approval rating
from the people

1935- Nuremberg Race

Laws
J e w s a r e n o t a llo w e d to :
M a rry o r h a v e s e x
w ith A r y a n s

h ir e A r y a n w o m e n
a s m a id s

h a v e r ig h ts o f
c it iz e n s h ip

1936
SS Deathshead
division is created
to guard camps
Heinreich
Himmler is
appointed Chief of
the German Police
Olympic games in
Berlin, Jews
treated better briefly.

1937
Jews are not allowed
to teach Germans
not allowed to be
accountants or
dentists
Eternal Jew exhibit
opened in Germany
this promoted stereotypes of Jews and
warned Germans

1938
Nazi troops enter
Austria
League of Nations
considers helping
Jews fleeing
Hitler, but no
country will take
them
Jews are not
allowed to
practice medicine

1939-KRISTALLNACHT
Night of Broken
Glass
Jewish stores,
shops and
synagogues
burned down

1939
The St. Louis is
turned away from
the US.
Jews must hand
over all gold and
silver.
Nazi troops seize
Czechoslovakia
350,000 Jews

My Dads Family in 1937

POLAND 1939
Sept. 1, 1939 Nazis
invade Poland
3.35 million Jews
Hans Frank becomes
governor of Poland
Forced labor decree
issued and all Jews
must wear yellow
stars
I ask nothing of Jews
except that they should
disappear

Nazi Germany Invades France One

Year Later, 1940
My father joins
the French
Foreign legion.
They are quickly
overtaken by
the superior
forces of the
German military.

France Occupied by German Army,

1939-1945

Living on the Run in the French

as a Farm Hand During the Occupation

1940
German Jews are
deported to Poland
Ghettos of Lodz,
Krakow and Warsaw
are sealed off.
Total of 600,000
Jews
These ghettos will
be liquidated
starting in 1942

German soldiers rounding

up Jews to be placed in
ghettos

FINAL SOLUTION
Now judgement has begun and it
will reach its conclusion only when
the knowledge of the Jews has been
erased from the earth! Nazi
Newspaper

Phase 1 = Shooting
Jews were
rounded up and
told they were to
be relocated
They were taken
to the woods and
were shot one by
one
their bodies were
buried in mass
graves

Phase 2 = Gas Vans

Again, Jews were
rounded up and
told they were to
be relocated in
vans
The vans were
equipped so that
the vans exhaust
was piped back
into the van
700,000 Jews killed in
Vans

1942 The Final Solution

My fathers parents and his
two older sisters were forced
to leave their home by
German soldiers. They were
put on a train and sent to
the Treblinka Extermination
Camp where they were
murdered.
The deportation of the 22,000
Jews of Piotrkw Trybunalski,
Poland, began in the early morning
hours of October 14, 1942. In the
process 1000 Jews, most of them
too sick to get out of bed, were
shot. The remaining Jews were
shipped to Treblinka, where those
who did not die on the journey
perished in the gas chambers.

This is My Dad in France

Ten years after his
mom, dad, and two
older sisters were killed
by the Nazis.
Three brothers and his
sister came to live with
him and my mom and
grandfather after they
were liberated from the
concentration camps
by the US and Russia
(the Allies).

 My dad, his older

brother Leon, my
grandfather, my
mom, and my two
older sistersMarthe and Alice.

STATISTICS BY
COUNTRY

Jewish population before, Jewish population after

Holocaust

My Dads Hometown Today

My brother .visiting two
years ago

The Jewish cemetery.

The Synagogue is now a

Library

My Cousin Sarah Moses