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__**JEWS IN THE HOLOCAUST.**__

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The Jews were actually doing not so bad before the war, everyone else dureing the deppression were liveing in poverty, but the Jews were doing alright. when hitler started moveing the jews into ghettos, then takeing their rights, even then the jews could not beleive what the nazi regime had in store for them. eventually after it became clear of what the nazi's intentions were for the Jews, life seemed hopeless and quickly became hopeless.

__**AUSCHWITZ.**__ **Arbeit Macht Frei = Work makes Freedom.** http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html http://remember.org/jacobs/ http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/ http://cghs.dadeschools.net/ib_holocaust2001/final_solution/selected_camps/auschwitz_medical_experiments.htm

__**Who What When Were Why?**__ At first, the Germans held Polish political prisoners in the camp. From the spring of 1942 Auschwitz became the largest site for the murder of Jews brought here under the Nazi plan for their extermination. More than 1,100,000 men, women, and children lost their lives here.  Between September 1, 1939, when Nazi troops invaded Poland, and Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, Hitler waged two wars. One was against Allied forces on three continents. The other was against the Jews the Holocaust which in actuality had been underway since the enactment of the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws, if not earlier. The onset of the Nazi-Soviet war signaled the beginning of the "Final Solution." Most of the slaughter happened in the "East"--in Poland, the Baltic states, the Balkans, and areas of Soviet territory conquered by the Nazis after the June 22, 1941 attack on Russia. Trial and error characterized the early phases of mass murder. Before utilizing gas, SS forces carried out open-air shootings, often with the assistance of local collaborators recruited from among the most anti-Semitic elements in the Baltic and Ukrainian populations.

 The 20th century has been the age of mass murder: the Armenian genocide, Stalin's "terror famine" against the peasantry, the Cambodian killing fields, and, more recently, the slaughter in Bosnia and Rwanda. So, the Jewish tragedy is hardly unique. But Hitler's genocidal campaign is singular for its technological thoroughness. Under the Nazis every living Jew old and young, male and female was slated for destruction. Three quarters of Hitler's victims died within an eleven-month period alone.....


 * The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide.
 * The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party").
 * The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.


 * It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
 * The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
 * An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.


 * Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps.
 * One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933.
 * From 1933 until 1938, most of the prisoners in the concentration camps were political prisoners (i.e. people who spoke or acted in some way against Hitler or the Nazis) and people the Nazis labeled as "asocial."
 * After Kristallnacht in 1938, the persecution of Jews became more organized. This led to the exponential increase in the number of Jews sent to concentration camps.
 * Life within Nazi concentration camps was horrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor and yet given tiny rations. Prisoners slept three or more people per crowded wooden bunk (no mattress or pillow). Torture within the concentration camps was common and deaths were frequent.
 * At a number of Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on prisoners against their will.
 * While concentration camps were meant to work and starve prisoners to death, extermination camps (also known as death camps) were built for the sole purpose of killing large groups of people quickly and efficiently.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 18px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit;">The Nazis built six extermination camps: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, andMajdanek. (Auschwitz and Majdanek were both concentration and extermination camps.)
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 18px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit;">Prisoners transported to these extermination camps were told to undress to take a shower. Rather than a shower, the prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 1.5em 0px 1.5em 18px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit;">Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; border-top: 3px solid #ff3300; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: inherit; width: 930px;"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9GzQc2s6o Band Of Brothers. This is a damn good depiction of what the state of the people would be like.

An important night during the Holocaust is known as ‘Kristallnacht’ or ‘Night of the Broken Glass’. This event occurred in November 1938, and refers to the night when many Jewish homes and establishments were destroyed. The ghettos that were originally supposed to contain Jewish people were emptied in 1941, and the people were then moved to concentration camps.

The problems of germany were shucked onto undeserving, poor and oblivious jews or people who were disliked. these poor souls have payed the ultimate price, their loss has not been a total loss, because of this event in history, people are more aware of racism and how to deal with it. Because of the holocaust the word "Genocide" was created. for ever more the world will hopefully never see such a horrific event again.

**Arbeit Macht Frei**