1. The Holocaust By: Brittany Lind

2. 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

4.  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

5.  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

7.  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

8.  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

9.  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

10.  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.

11. Camps with #’s of Death CampKilled Chelmno320,000 Auschwitz- Birkenau 1,200,000 Belzek600,000 Sobibor250,000 Treblinka700,000 Majdanek1,380,000 Stutthof65,000

13.  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.

14.  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

15.  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.

16.  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

17.  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

18.  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

19.  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

20.  Bloody Wednesday November 3 1943 Went down in history as the largest mass execution of the holocaust Went down in history as the largest mass execution of the holocaust

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