This is a presentation I created for a class that I just took on the Holocaust. In addition to the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, my presentation includes information about the 3.3 million Soviet POW's; about 300,000 Gypsies or Roma; 2 million non Jewish Poles; 250,000 mentally and physically disabled; 15,000 homosexuals; 5,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, and an untold number of Roman Catholics. (The Nazi authorities in the concentration camps usually did not record the religious affiliation of a prisoner, with the exception of the Jehovah Witnesses; therefore, it is difficult to reliably estimate the total number of Catholic victims who were persecuted or killed because of some action or position connected to their Catholic faith).

1. Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust Jan Courtney ASC 4170 - Dowling March 2011

4. The Dead at Mauthausen , April 1945

9. Systematic Killing of the Handicapped Five handicapped prisoners photographed at Buchenwald concentration camp for propaganda purposes. 1938 – 1940 Hartheim Castle was a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria

11. Evil Personified versus Righteous Among the Nations In 1968, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Yad Vashem) asked Corrie to plant a tree in the Garden of Righteousness, in honor of the many Jewish lives her family saved. Corrie’s tree stands there today along with a plaque in her memory. Hitler was responsible for the death of more than 5.9 million Jews (close to two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population).

12. Black Victims of the Holocaust The Nazis did not uphold the regulations imposed by the Geneva Convention in the treatment of black prisoners. Black prisoners of war faced illegal incarceration and mistreatment at the hands of the Nazis.

23. “ No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century… “… but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.” - Benjamin Netanyahu