Unit 2: Holocaust

Einsatzgruppen

group created for deportation and mass murder

Ostjuden vs Judenrat

Ostjuden- Eastern and uneducated Jews

Judenrat- Jewish council of elders that implemented Nazi ruled

Aryanization

Jewish businesses stolen and given to non-jews

3 types of ghettos

open- no walls all open

closed- walls and barbed wire

destruction- only housed jews for 2-6 weeks

Oneg Shabbat vs Zionists vs bund party

Oneg- secret archive of Jewish diaries

Zionists- believed in pure jew state

Bund party- socialist party in poland that provided aid underground to jewish

Operation Barbarossa

Nazi invasión of soviet union

• lithuania agreed w the Germans and supported them

Babi Yar

Einsatzgruppen ordered them to undress and give all belongings to them and were beaten and attacked by dogs. All bodies were later burned