s For the dead and the living we must bear witness Elie Wiesel That there was more than one Did you know The Defenition Holocaust any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life ID: 307714
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The Holocausts
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
~
Elie
WieselSlide2
That there was more than one
Did you know?Slide3
The
Defenition
Holocaust
-
any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.
Genocide
-
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.Slide4
Table of ContentsThe Holocaust – Nazi Germany and WWIIThe Armenian Genocide
The Rwanda Genocide
American Genocide? You Decide
The
HolodomorSlide5
The Holocaust Nazi Germany killed people in a planned and forced way during World War IIDeath Camps
Key Leaders: Adolf
Hitler, Heinrich
Himmler
, Reinhard
HeydrichLasted from 1939- 1945Slide6
The Armenian Genocide The systematic extermination of the Armenian population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor by the Ottoman
government and the Young Turks
Dates
1915–
1923Death count: 600,000
- 1,800,000 Slide7
Rwanda GenocideMass murder 1994 that lasted 100 days Hutu vs. Tutsi Death count:
500,000–
1,000,000
The assassination of
Habyarimana
in April 1994 Slide8
American Genocide? Where the Indians victims of genocide?Indian Removal Act- About 17,000 Cherokees
Cherokees were
removed from their homes
.Slide9
The Holodomora man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933
Death toll-
2.4–7.5
million
"terror-famine in Ukraine”