week 4/11 - 4/15

Monday - Germany note

1941

  • Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos.
  • In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar - the largest single massacre of the Holocaust.
  • The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews.

1942

  • Nazi officials announced "Final Solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews.
  • Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jew are shipped to death camps.
  • The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are Exterminating the Jews of Europe. 

1943

  • Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the Nazis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a mouth before the Nazis put down the uprising.

1944

  • Hitler takes over Hungary and begins Deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered. 

1945

  • Hitler defeated and World War II ends in Europe.
  • The Holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied. 
  • Many survivors are placed in displaced person camps until they find a country willing to accept them. 

1947

  • The United Nations established a Jewish homeland in British- controlled Palestine, Which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.

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Tuesday - Watching a movie

Wednesday - finish the movie and going over the test

Thursday - Test 

Friday - Finished test

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