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The Holocaust
1933-1945
Question | Answer |
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Holocaust meaning | Sacrifice by fire |
What is the Holocaust | A genocide killing and suffering during world war 2 |
Auschwitz | The largest death and concentration camp |
Adolf Hitler | A German politician who lead the Nazi party and took control over Germany until death in 1945 when he committed suicide |
Heinrich Himmler | The leader of the SS |
Death toll | 6 million Jews, 5 million people |
Ghettos | Where the innocent were forced before camps |
Warsaw | The capital of Poland and the largest ghetto |
Anti-semitism | Discrimination against Jews |
Nuremberg trials | In 1945 those who committed crime(SS) were in court while 12 sentenced to death and just under 30 were pleaded not guilty |
Nuremberg laws | Taking all rights and freedom away from those who were jewish |
When | 1933-1945 |
Arbeit macht frei in English | Work will set you up free |
Deaths | Starved, shot, gassed and burned |
Stage 1 | Stripping of rights toward jewish kind. |
Stage 2 | All were sent to ghettos |
Stage 3 | Concentration camps |
Stage 4 | |
January 27 | Holocaust Memorial Day |