Fifty things I Know About The Holocaust

Antonio Ayala May 12, 2009
Room 208 logandale school

1.) something I learned from the holocaust was that there were three different types of ghetto closed ghetto, open ghetto, and destruction ghetto.
2.) I learned that the word holocaust is a Greek origin that means sacrifice by fire.
3.) Something I learned was that the Germans targeted the non Jewish polish for killing and deported millions of them for forced labor.
4.) The Germans killed homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms.
town and cities and made and forced them with limited space and they ended up with overcrowding,starvation,and disease.
6.) The German ss and the police nearly killed 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting them.
7.) I learned that there were many kids of the ghetto around..
8.) Another thing I learned was that many of the deportees who arrived at the concentration camp were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers.
9.) Then I learned that over a million Jews and tens of thousands of roma poles, and soviet prisoners of war were killed there by November 1944.
10.) The ss considered the killing centers top secret.
11.) I learned that the Germans toke all there belongings.
12.) I learned that during the invasion of the soviet union in June 1941 the einsatzgruppen followed the German army as it advanced deep into soviet territory.
13.) I learned that they also killed residents that had physically and mentally problems.
14.) these Germans didn’t have any life and they called them unworthy for all things.
15.) the holocaust was the systematic bureaucratic state sponsored persecution and murder of millions of Jews.
16.) another thing is that Germans were superior racially.
17.)in 1933 the Jewish population stood over nine million.
18.) in 1945 nearly most of there Germans killed 2 out of three groups of Europeans.
19.) Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.
20.) In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps.
21.) In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches.
22.) May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
23.) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews.
24.) The last DP camp closed in 1957.
25.) ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and other cities in the 16th and 17th centuries.
26.) The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto, where over 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square.
27.) The Germans ordered Jews residing in ghettos to wear identifying badges or armbands.
28.) In some ghettos, members of Jewish resistance movements staged armed uprisings.
29.) During the holocaust, ghettos were a central step in the Nazi process of control, dehumanization, and mass murder of the Jews.
30.) In January 1945, Soviet forces liberated that part of Budapest in which the two ghettos were, respectively, located and liberated the nearly 90,000 Jewish residents.
31.) The Germans regarded the establishment of ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews while the Nazi.
32.) were closed off by walls, or by fences with barbed wire.
33.) had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on entering and leaving.
33.) were tightly sealed off and existed for between two and six weeks before the Germans and/or.
34.) Even before the war began, the Nazis imposed forced labor on Jewish civilians, both inside and outside concentration camps.
35.) For Jews, the ability to work often meant the potential to survive after the Nazis began to implement the final solution.
36.) Jews deemed physically unable to work were often the first to be shot or deported.
37.) As early as 1937, the Nazis increasingly exploited the forced labor of so-called "enemies of the state" for economic gain and to meet desperate labor shortages.
38.) At the end of the war, millions of non-German displaced persons were left in Germany, including some tens of thousands of Jews.
39.) German authorities under National Socialism established a variety of detention facilities to confine those whom they defined as political, ideological, or racial opponents of the regime.
40.) many German law enforcement, social work, and welfare professionals as well as many ordinary German citizens.
41.) The basic notion, shared by professionals and ordinary citizens elsewhere in Europe and in North America
42.) As early as 1937, the Reich economy began to experience labor shortages in key sectors.
43.) In 1938, the German Criminal Police conducted two major roundups of so-called a socials and so-called criminals to increase the number of forced laborers.
44.) In addition to the SS, the German civilian authorities also required inexpensive labor for more immediate.
construction, urban renewal, and transportation projects. By the end of 1938.
45.) In the spring of 1942, Himmler reorganized the administration of the concentration camps, linking them to the SS Business Administration.
46.) 1942-1943 in an agreement with Himmler that these prisoners were to be “annihilated through work.”
47.) a legacy of Nazi efforts to exploit for forced labor those they perceived as racial inferiors.
48.) 1944, the death rate of the laborers in the all camps climbed astronomically.
49.) They collected all our belongings like brushes hats and other stuff.
50.) Though many scholars have traditionally counted the madjenek camp as a sixth killing center.