1. Women Of the Holocaust By: Kendra Yates 5/18/08

2. What is the Holocaust and when did it happen?
Holocaust: A devastation or destruction. When the Nazi made concentration camps where they held the Jewish people.
The Holocaust happened between the years 1933 to 1945.

3. Why did the Holocaust happen?
There are many reasons why the Holocaust happened but here are the main reasons:
The Nazi thought that there was a group of Jews somewhere, who were planning to rule Germany and Aryan.
When Germany lost World War I, they decided to blame the Jews and make them suffer like they did!

4. Background information on the Holocaust.
There were two different kinds of groups in the holocaust which were able and disable.
The able prisoners had their heads shaved and their belongings taken from them.
The officers tattooed a number on the arm of each person, from then on that’s what they were identified by.

5. How many Jews got murdered in each location in Europe?
Austria:27%
Italy:17%
Belgium:44%
Lithuania:85%
Luxemburg:55%
Demark:7%
Netherlands:71%
Estonia:44%
Norway:44%
Finland:3%
Poland:90%
France:22%
Romania:47%
Germany:25%
Slovakia:79%
Greece: 86%
Sovakia:36%
Soviet union: 69%
Hungary:81%

6. This is a movie clip about the Holocaust!!!
Testimony of Anita Mayer, Holocaust Survivor

7. What happened in the Holocaust?
Inside the Holocaust women would cook scraps of food, fix clothes and search for lice& fleas. Women suffered from bedbugs, fleas but most of all they bared the hunger, but they deteriorated more slowly then men.
Today in Europe it is illegal to deny if you were in the Holocaust or deny that it ever happened!

8. Steps in the Holocaust…..
See if you were disable or able.
Strip you of your clothes.
Sit in a room and you would get all your hair cut off.
Men soldiers were able to see your body which was disrespectful to the women.
There could be no paper/water found anywhere by the officers.

9. At the end of the Holocaust these are the ones that made it and didn’t!
All together 5,860,000 Jews died.
But only 2.9/3 Million Women died during the Holocaust.
100,000 to 150,000 Jews Survived the Holocaust.

10. Events to remember about the Holocaust.
1933
The guards would pack Jews tightly into a room and lock the doors. Death came upon them in just a few minutes. They were faced with carbon monoxide gas.
1938
Why children must die was because in the Holocaust were killed was because there was no good jobs or them to do.
1939
Was the day when a prisoner escaped the camp every single Jew stood for 18 hours, standing tall. Many lost their life’s due to this event.
1944
A year before the Holocaust was over the Nazi’s made all Jews once again made them carry out every corpse out of the camps.
1945
The Jews had to do something called a death march were they were set free but 25% died from the cold.

11. My Sources!!!
Book:Ofer,Dalia and Weptzman J. Lehore.Women of the Holocaust,1998
Book: Tamara L. Roleff, The Holocaust Death Camps 1995