Holocaust
by: Karah Sivley
who was involved?
- Nazi Germany
- Allies
Holocaust facts
- Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945
- The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis
- Once World War II began, the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily targeted
- 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children). 6 million of those victims were Jewish. Other groups targeted by the Nazis were Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Roma
- Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis.
- In prison camps, prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor. Torture to death within concentration camps were common and frequent
- Jews were forced to live in specific areas of the city called ghettos after the beginning of World War ll
- New laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans
- Over 1.1 million children died
- 1.1 million Jews were murdered in addition to 20,000 Poles, 19,000 Gypsies, and 12,000 Russian prisoners of war.