Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Fifty Things I Know About The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust is a Greek word meaning, sacrificing by fire.
2. The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews.
3. The killing began in June 1941.
4. Before world war II, there were 9.5 million Jewish live in Europe.
5. In 1933 the Nazi party came to power in Germany.
6. German wants their power to be bigger so they extend to central Europe.
7. Poland was invaded by Germany in the beginning of world war II in 1939.
8. Two years later, German took over most of Europe.
9. The Germans made the ghettos.
10. ghettos is a place where the Jewish people are force to live.
11. Jews, Roma/Gypsies, political commissars and others was murdered by Mobile killing units.
12. The Jews were deported to extermination camps by the Germans.
13. Auschwitz's-Birkenau was the largest extermination camp.
14. German transport the Jews in there almost every day.
15. By the end of war, almost 6 million and a million of others lost there life's.
16. There were three types of ghettos, closed ghettos, open ghettos and destruction ghettos.
17. The largest ghetto in Poland was Warsaw ghetto.
18. Over 400,000 Jewish were forced to live in Warsaw ghetto.
19. Jews were force to wear badges or armband.
20. Jewish police officials, served to the German authorities.
21. The Jewish police that cant do the orders of German will be killed.
22. I learn that the Jews in the ghetto are doing illegal activities.
23. Those activities are, smuggling food, medicine, and weapon across the walls of ghetto.
24. The Nazi made about 20,000 camps to keep the prisoner.
25. They builds this camps between 1933 and 1945.
26. Mein Kamf is the name of the book that Hitler wrote.
27. Nazi doctors experiments on the prisoners.
28. The prisoner uniform is called Julian Noga's prisoner uniform jacket.
29. Birkenau extermination had four gas chambers.
30. 6,000 Jews were gassed in the camp each day.
31. Transit camps is the last stop before they go to the extermination camp.
32. Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the Nazi camps.
33. Germans murdered more than three million Jews in the extermination.
34. Few of those imprisoned survived in the Nazi camps.
35. The Jews and the other victims were unter a brutal condition.
36. The first concentration camp was in the winter of 1933.
37. Germany conquered the Poland in 1939.
38. German required all the Jewish and Polish males to performed unpaid labor.
39. The prisoners were literally worked to death.
40. Lots of them end up to illness, injury and death.
41. POW means prisoners of war.
42. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning "to wreak havoc, to demolish violently."
43. The perpetrators of pogroms raped and murdered their Jewish and victims.
44. I learn that Adolf Hitler is a short person.
45. Adolf Hitler is a very good speaker and he make the people believe on his speeches.
46. Reinhard Heydrich is a security police chief of the mobile killing units.
47. The pregnant woman were killed with there child in there stomach.
48. First the Einsatzgruppen shot only Jewish men.
49. By the summer of 1941, Einsatzgruppen shot Jewish men, women, and children without regarding for age or sex, and buried them to mass grave.
50. Most of the people that the Nazi doctors made experiment on will end up to death or horrible health.

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