The Holocaust
A Brief Overview
What is the Holocaust?
6 million Jews were murdered at Hitler's Concentration and Death Camps.
Jews were used as Scapegoats. (To put blame on someone for something they didn't do)
Read more about the Holocaust here.
Sleeping in Concentration Camps
Bergen Belsen
Tattoos
Complete Isolation
To isolate the Jews from the rest of the population, their first stopping place to total seclusion were the ghettos. These were apartment-like buildings used as a holding place for the Jews before they were shipped off to concentration and death camps.
Learn more about ghettos here.
Learn about the 3 types of ghettos here.
To listen to a prisoners account click (1) here, (2) here, and (3) here.
To attempt to stay alive, Jews created a list of rules to help them survive the concentration camps.
To read about the rules in Concentration Camps click here and here.
Use this link to see the roles of women, men, and children. http://www.dkfindout.com/us/history/world-war-ii/concentration-camps/
The Entrance to Auschwitz
Cattle Cars
Piles of Shoes
Liberation
The German army knew the Soviets were coming and they left the prisoners behind and ran for cover.
Read more about the liberation of camps here.
War Crimes Trial
To read more about the Nuremberg Trials, click here.