Holocaust

What do I know about the Holocaust?

-11 million people total killed; 6 million Jews; 5 million others: gypsies, Polish, Handicapped, Sexual Preference, Political Preference,...ect.
-Adolf Hitler at first blamed the Jews for their loss of WWI and having to pay off all the debt they were forced to pay.
-As Adolf Hitler and his army began to take over the rest of Europe and Asia in WWII he also began to create Concentration Camps where Jews were processed and eventually slaughtered in some manner.
-Concentration camps consisted of burning, gas chambers, starving and disease by death.
-Many Jews converted or went into hiding to be kept from being taken away and put into one of these death camps.



What do We Know about the Holocaust?

-The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler.
-The Holocaust was considered genocide.
-The Holocaust happened in Europe during WWII.
-The book burning was an initial event that revoked the people's rights.
-Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands.
-Jews lost personal rights such as not owning businesses, curfews, ect (Nuremberg Race Laws)
-Jews were placed into ghettos. Ghettos were a confined area within a town where one would be placed.
-Jews were then deported to Concentration Camps via cattle cars.
-The largest Concentratoin Camp was Auschwitz.
-There were gas chambers in the camps and they were disguised as showers.
-Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, burnt, gased, worked to death.
-Anne Frank was a famous Holocaust victim due to her diary that was found.
-Some people doubt the existence of the Holocaust.
-Poles, homosexuals, Soviets, political opponents, gypsies, handicapped, and those who helped Jews were all targeted groups.
-6 million Jews were killed/11 million total.
-Survivors still exist today, but are slowly dying off due to age.