50 Things I Know About The Holocaust

1. Holocaust is a word of Greek meaning sacrifice by fire.
2. In 1933, the Jewish population in Europe was over 9 million.
3. Most Jewish lived in Nazi Germany during World War II.
4. Around 2 or 3 million soviet prisoners of war were murdered by disease, neglect, starvation, and maltreatment.
5. The Germans and the collaborators murdered millions of people.
6. This took place in Europe.
7. The Nazi of policy murder the Jews of Europe.
8. Many individuals died of incarceration and maltreatment.
9. Around 1941 and 1944 Nazi German deported millions of Jews from Germany.
10. For the Western Allies the World War II ended in Europe May 8, 1945.
11. The final months some Guards moved camp by train or on forced marches called Death Marches.
12. 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel.
13. The last camp closed in 1957.
14. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the U.S and other nations.
15. Germans were murdered in the Euthanasia Program.
16. The National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain.
17. There was 2 daughters born with the father being Jewish and the mother being Catholic.
18. Also the Germans and collaborators killed nearly 2 out of every European Jews.
19. 200,000 mentally and physically disabled patients mainly Germans.
20. The largest Ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto.
21. There was 3 types of ghettos closed ghettos, open ghettos and destruction ghettos.
22. In Hungary ghetto didn't begin into 1944.
23. Gassing also proved to be less costly.
24. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning to wreak havoc.
25. The perpetrators of pogroms organized locally with government and police encouragement.
26. German soldiers killed at least 8,000 Jews during during a pogrom in Iasi.
27. On July 10, 1941 Polish residents of Jedwabne a small town located in Bialystok District.
28. The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder.
29. The SS considered the killing centers top secret.
30. The largest killing center was Auschwitz Birkenau.
31. Over millions of Jews and thousands of Roma, poles, and soviet prisoners of war were killed around November 1944.
32. 6,000 thousands Jews were gasses every day in Auschwitz Birkenau.
33. The first killing center was Chelmno.
34. The Nazis subjected millions of people to forced labor under brutal conditions.
35. In 1942-1944 the Germans deported 3 million soviet citizens to other countries.
36. Jews physically work and were the first ones to be shot or deported.
37. The Germans required Polish people to live in ghettos.
38. Einsatzgruppen were people of German SS and police personal.
39. Shooting was the main thing to kill people for the Einsatzgruppen.
40. Jews and other victims in most areas were Einsatzgruppen.
41. Einsatzgruppen are located in the eastern of Europe.
42. At first Einsatzgruppen killed men.
43. Then Einsatzgruppen shot men, women, and children.
44. Einsatzgruppen came to the home of Jews and massacred them.
45. In June 1941 the Einsatzgruppen fallowed German army into Soviet territory.
46. Jews locality were identified and taken to collection points.
47. Einsatzgruppen also murdered thousands of residents.
48. Nazi program to murder all European Jews.
49. Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the various types of Nazi Camps.
50. Only a small amount of people survived in the Nazi camps.