Holocaust Katie And Kelsey

Holocaust

By. Kelsey and Katie

Holocaust

• The meaning of Holocaust is Sacrifice by fire• The Nazi’s murdered approximately six million

Jews after WWII

Holocaust

• The killings began in June 1941 shooting of Jews during the German invasion of Soviet Union.

Holocaust

• In the end of 1941 the Germans deported the Jews into concentration camps in Poland

• In may of 1945 approximately 2/3 of Jews in Europe were murdered.

How it began

• The Holocaust began when Hitler came into power in Germany

• The killings started in April of 1933• It stopped in 1945 when the Nazi’s were

defeated by the Allied powers

How:

• Number of deaths:– 11 million people killed during the Holocaust– 6 million Jews were killed– 1.1 million children were murdered

Where:

• The Holocaust took place in mostly Europe • The Jew Citizens were in the Western Europe

countries

Where:

• Extermination Camps murdered the people in the camps by murdering them with poison gas.

Why:

• The Germans constructed camps which was the purpose of the genocide

• The Kristallnacht night was when the zazis destroyed mainly Jewish buildings

Who:

• Hitler was the leader who was in charge of giving orders to the Nazis to kill the Jews

Why:

• Many regions German soldiers rounded up the Jews then they shot them

• Nazi’s also killed hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, poles, mentally disabled people, and the political and religious prisoners

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