Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA
The intimate museum dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust & memorializing its victims.
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: 300 N Houston St, Dallas, Texas, USA
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is a history education museum in Dallas, Texas, in the West End Historic District. Its mission is to teach the history of the Holocaust and advance human rights to combat prejudice, hatred, and indifference.
The Museum
Hitler’s Ideology
What happened in Germany
According to Hitler, Jews to be eliminated
Hitler also wanted to invade Russia for its land
He created propaganda films
Who is Jew? It depends on his blood
Jews wanted to flee the persecution, and many did to neighboring countries, but these countries were invaded by German not long after.
German annexed Austria
Austrian welcomed German
Persecution of Jews began earnestly in Germany and Austria
Jews flee to nearby countries
Many countries did not welcome fleeing Jews
Germany invaded Poland
Where to put the Jews?
Before the German killed the Jews, they killed the handicapped, homosexuals, and gypsies.
Jews were shipped to deportation areas and then to the death camps.
Among many countries, Denmark and England did not send Jews to the death camp.
The German invaded Norway
When German invaded Belgium, Belgium started to deport the Jews.
Both France and Viche France persecuted the Jews.
Great Britain did not send the Jews to deportation stations but restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Italy was reluctant to deport Jewish until the Germans invaded them.
Germany formed an antisemitic government in Romania, and then Romania became Germany’s cruel ally in the Holocaust.
Holocaust by bullets — 2 million killed by mobile killing units, Einsatzgruppen
Baltics Nations
Germany invaded the Soviet Union and recruited Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian locals to assist in Murdering their Jewish neighbors.
Wannsee Conference – 15 Germans gathered and discussed how to kill the Jews.
Soviet Union
Germans portrayed the Russians as less than human
Germany and Russia jointly occupied Poland.
Jews in Poland could not figure out which side (Russia or Germany) would be better.
The fight between German and Russia broke out
Germany invades Russia
Germany had hundreds of concentration camps
Three million Jews were killed in Poland, about half of all Jews killed in Holocaust.
Germany invades Poland
Jews lived in Poland for 800 years before the Nazi occupation. On the eve of the occupation 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland – more than any other country in Europe. Their percentage among the general population – about 10% – was also the highest in Europe.
On the eve of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, 3.3 million Jews lived there. At the end of the war, approximately 380,000 Polish Jews remained alive, the rest having been murdered, mostly in the ghettos and the six death camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Jewish’s remaining alive was an act of defiance
Armed Jewish resistance was not popular because Jews were vulnerable to retaliation.
Ghettos
Eastern Europe Countries
How about Americans?
Hungary was reluctant to send Jews to death camps until it was invaded by the German
Some people wanted to save Jews
Neutral Countries
The Vatican
Deportation
Death Camps
Balkan Countries
Toward the end of the war
Germany defeated
Freedom at last, but where to go?
Number of Jews killed in each country
Number of Jews killed each year
