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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Theme PackageSlide2
The Fury
Bruno mistakes the word “
Führer
“ for “Fury”
The Führer was the title of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany from 1933-45Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbduo4fHANA&feature=related
Adolf Hitler -The Führer -Slide3
Eva Braun – Hitler’s Mistress
Chapter 11 mentions Bruno’s meeting with the Fury’s friend,
the pretty blonde lady
Eva Braun
met Hitler when she was only 17She and Hitler were married 40 hours before their deaths by suicide in 1945 – she was 33Slide4
Berlin 1940s
The novel opens in the German city of Berlin
in the early 1940s
Population: 4 million
The city experienced massive bombing by the Allies between 1940-45Slide5
Out-With
Bruno mistakes the name Auschwitz for
Out-With
Auschwitz
was a notorious concentration camp in Poland which existed from 1940-45 Slide6
AuschwitzSlide7
Prisoners of AuschwitzSlide8
Prisoners of AuschwitzSlide9
Location of AuschwitzSlide10
The Real Commandant of Auschwitz
Rudolf
Höss
was the first commandant of Auschwitz from 1940 – 43In June 1941 Höss was informed that because of its isolation, Auschwitz had been chosen by Hitler as the main site for the extermination of European JewsHöss was
executed in 1947 Slide11
The Waffen-SS
Lieutenant Kotler
was quite likely a member of the
Waffen-SS This was an elite branch of the German armed forcesThey had a reputation for crueltySlide12
Woman Guard
Juana Bormann
was one of the few women guards at Auschwitz
She was known for her cruelty and called
“Wiesel” and “the woman with dogs”She was executed after the war for war crimesSlide13
Slave Labour
Strong, healthy prisoners were forced to work by the NazisThe men
in the picture
are building airplane partsSlide14
“Canada”
Near the gas chambers was a place the inmates called Canada
It was called this because Canada was thought of as a country of great riches
Here the possessions of the prisoners were brought
The items were sorted and sent back to GermanySlide15
The Jews and Auschwitz
About 960,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz
Healthy prisoners were forced to work until they grew too
weak. Small children were executed immediately
Prisoners were told they were going to have a shower, but instead were gassedSlide16
The Star of David
Worn by Jewish prisoners it was known
in Hebrew as
The Shield of David
Dates back to at least the 12th CenturyOrigin remains unknownKing David was Israel’s 2nd and greatest kingIs now a part of the flag of Israel
Flag of IsraelSlide17
Anne Frank
Auschwitz’s most famous prisoner was probably Anne Frank
, the author of “The Diary of Anne Frank”
She was later transferred to another prison where she and her sister, Margot, perished in 1945Slide18
Oscar Schindler
Only one remarkable man managed to get prisoners out of Auschwitz -
Oscar Schindler
He
outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews from the gas chambers than anyone else during World War II.A movie, Schindler’s List, was made about his exploitsSlide19
Maximilian Kolbe
Kolbe
was a Catholic priest who was sent to Auschwitz in 1941 for speaking out against the Nazis
While there he selflessly helped many prisoners by sharing his rations and tending to their injuries and illnesses
He was killed in August 1941Slide20
Art Created by Prisoners
Death of Hunger
UntitledSlide21
The Liberation of Auschwitz
In January 1945, 58,000 prisoners were evacuated from Auschwitz
The SS burned the camp records and blew up the gas chambers
The Red Army arrived on January 27, 1945 and found only 7,000 prisoners left – most were very weak and illSlide22
Auschwitz Museum and Memorials
Museum – Watchtower and Fence
Auschwitz Memorial in AmsterdamSlide23
This (
Auschwitz) is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and
Sinti
. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later
.~ German President Horst Koehler