The Holocaust

By: Brittany Lind

General Facts

The Holocaust was a very devastating time for all.

This all began in World War II, when Hitler was in power over in Germany

Time Period:1938-1945 6 million Jewish people died

The Nazi didn’t just go after Jews, they also went after people who weren’t like them.

In 1933 before the holocaust happened, nine million Jews lived across Europe

After the Holocaust there were about four million left

Adding on to that two to three million were Soviet POW’s

There was an organization called T4 or Tiergartenstrasse 4

They were in charge of the elimination of the “Life unworthy of life”

This help the holocaust in many ways. It was a legitimate form of government

which sponsored killing It also was a major part of the elimination

of the Jews

There were many camps all over Europe The most widely know is Auschwitz. This is the largest camp where most of the

people died. Originally camps were for political

prisoners, criminals, and security risks. Even though there were many deaths at

the camps, and they were horrible, there is no evidence that they were supposed to be for extermination

Although it can not be proven they were known as death camps.

People here died from all sorts of things They were worked to death Epidemics spread because there were so

many people that it was easy to catch a disease

Or the could have been murdered

The famous saying with any bi/autobiography you read they will always remember Women and children to the left men to the right.

If you were too you or too old you were killed by being shot, gas chambers, or another form of torture

An if you were to weak to work, you would be killed immediately also

The first camps was Buchenwald As more space was need, they kept

building more and more camps These at first held: Communists,

democrats, socialists, political criminals, homosexuals and some Jews.

Camps with #’s of DeathCamp Killed

Chelmno 320,000

Auschwitz- Birkenau 1,200,000

Belzek 600,000

Sobibor 250,000

Treblinka 700,000

Majdanek 1,380,000

Stutthof 65,000

The living conditions were horrible in these camps

Sleeping spaces were cramps with no blankets or pillows plus the mattresses were not very comfy

Their food that they were given was a piece of bread and a small bowl of soup.

That was supposed to last all day while doing hard labor.

Getting to camp was not that easy Many had to ride a train to get there Their trains weren’t normal trains though

they were storage crates that they would stuff with 40+ people

They counted the people and locked the crate so that no one would escape

As if that wasn’t enough, the Nazi’s threatened that if anyone escaped they would all be killed

These trips would take days to get to their destinations

The people would go for days without food water and also being cramped

There was no sufficient place to go to the bathroom and there was no place to sit or sleep.

They also made long walks to get places If they were changing camps they would

have to walk/run their This is the time many people escaped

cause it wasn’t well monitored Especially when there were bombing

attacks it was chaos

In the final months of war they moved people from camps.

This was to prevent the liberation of the prisoners

These marches were called death marches

This is when many of the allied troops came and liberated all of the camps

It wasn’t so bad before the camps At first they were required to wear yellow

Stars of David’s on their clothes. Yet this is still degrading this wasn’t their

worst part of their lives After a few years, The Nazi’s started

moving everyone to Ghettos Ghettos were kind of like suburbs but were

a little more intense

The Ghettos were enclosed suburbs more like.

They had high fences with barbed wire all around.

They had guards watching their every move and making sure no one would escape

Though this sound a little bit bad, they still were able to live normal lives and do everything anyone else did, just they were all Jews

Bloody Wednesday November 3 1943 Went down in history as the largest mass

execution of the holocaust

“Walking Skeletons”

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