Episode 2: The Machinery of Death - This episode was produced and recorded by Mr Maillet, High School History Teacher. He apologizes for any mispronunciation of German or Polish terms and names. In this second episode of our Holocaust Education Month series, we confront the Holocaust itself - the systematic, industrialized murder of six million Jews. We begin with Nazi-occupied Poland (1939-1941), examining how Jews were marked with white armbands, stripped of rights, and confined to ghettos. We hear Janusz Korczak's heartbreaking choice to die with his orphans. We follow the Einsatzgruppen mobile killing squads and witness the Babyn Yar massacre. We sit at the Wannsee Conference where fifteen Nazi officials spent ninety minutes coordinating the murder of eleven million people. We examine the six death camps—Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz—where murder became industrial. We walk through Auschwitz-Birkenau in detail: the selections, the deception, the gas chambers, the daily existence of prisoners. Finally, we witness Hungary 1944, when 437,000 Jews were murdered in less than two months—proving the Nazis prioritized genocide even while losing the war. Content Warning: Contains detailed descriptions of genocide and mass murder

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