Overview of the Holocaust, includes speaker notes

2. The Holocaust

6. SA pickets, wearing boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. The signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity propaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!"

7. Two Nazi stormtroopers stand guard in front of the H. L. Heimann store in Bopfingen, to prevent would-be shoppers from violating the Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

12. The fire department only made sure the fire did not spread to the building next to the synagogue

13. View of the interior of the Essenweinstrasse synagogue in Nuremberg following its destruction during Kristallnacht.

16. Second Solution (1939-1941): Isolation

27. 6 major death camps created: Treblinka, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maidanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Belzec

28. Jews from the Lodz ghetto board deportation trains for the Chelmno death camp

29. Hundreds of Jews wait to board deportation trains at the railroad station in Würzburg. Their luggage and bed rolls are piled in the center of the platform.

30. “ Work makes one free”

35. Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945.

37. (Above) Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn. (Below) After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.