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The Holocaust was a genocide of approximately six million European Jews. Approximately two-thirds of the Jewish population of nine million in Europe perished. Concentration camps were set up to hold the Jewish people as slave labourers until they died of disease or exhaustion. If you were Jewish during the holocaust you would have lost property, your job, they disenfranchised Jewish stockholders, denied degrees to those who are already studying, and the list goes on.

After Polan was envaded Germany made Gettos where the Jewsih people were confined untill they were shipped off to death camps. The largest of the Gettos was the WarSaw Getto holding 380,000 people. Starvation and disease killed hundreds of thousands of the Jewish people in the Gettos. These Gettos were ran by a Judenrat who was a German-appointed Jewish community leader. They were in charge of food, water, heat, shelter, and medicine. They were also in charge of deporting people to the death camps.

Extermination camps were killing centers designed to carry out mass killing of the Jewish people. The Nazis made six extermination camps in former Polish territory. The camps were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Approximately 3.5 million Jews were killed in these camps and other victims like Soviet prisoners.

The SS controlled the extermination camps. Killing methods that were used in then genocide were gas chambers. Another method was gassing trucks which suffocated them from the exhaust fumes. About 50% of the people also died from starvation, exhaustion, disease, torture, and criminal medical experiments. If people were not killed at these camps they were used as slave labourers.

The most interesting fact of the holocaust to me was the Gettos that the jewish people were confined to. They had an average of 9 people to a room in the WarSaw getto. The conditions of the Gettos were terrible. And if you were able to survive the Gettos you were deported to extermination camps where death is almost a sure thing.

The most important thing I learned from my reaserch of the holocasut was the extermination camps for the Jewish people. The things that were dont to men, women, and even childern really shocked me and disgusted me. Killing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe is really an unreal thought. And the killing methods that people actually put thought into is really appalling.

The holocaust was the genocide of two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe. Gettos were set up to hold the Jewish people before they were shipped to extermination camps where most of them were murderd and made slaves. The Holocasut has go to be the darkest part of the secound World War.