HolocausT

By: Summaiyah Hyder

                                                             (For Mr.Shapiro's Class) (- I better get extra credit for this

Did you know...

• 1) The "Holocaust" refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945 (V-E Day), the end of the war in Europe.
• 2) A death (or mass murder) camp is a concentration camp with special machinery specifically designed for systematic murder. Six  camps like these existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. All of these camps were located in Poland.
• 3) The first concentration camp, Dachau, opened on March 22, 1933. The camp's first inmates were mainly political prisoners (e.g. Communists or Social Democrats); habitual criminals; homosexuals; Jehovah's Witnesses; and "anti-socials" (beggars, vagrants, hawkers). Others considered problematic by the Nazis (e.g. Jewish writers and journalists, lawyers, unpopular industrialists, and political officials) were also included.
• 4) On November 14, 1935, the Nazis issued the following definition of a Jew: Anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who belonged to the Jewish community on September 15, 1935, or joined thereafter; was married to a Jew or Jewess on September 15, 1935, or married one thereafter; was the child of a marriage or extramarital liaison with a Jew on or after September 15, 1935.
• 5) While thousands of Jews were murdered by the Nazis or died as a direct result of discriminatory actions organized against Jews during the early years of the Third Reich, the systematic murder of Jews did not begin until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
• 6) The first action taken by the Nazi's against the Jews was the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses on April 1, 1933.
• 7) Over five million Non-Jewish Victims were exterminated by the Nazi's during the Holocaust. Three million of those victims were Poles and Catholics. 

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_Conclusion:

_{When most of us move today, it is by choice. We decide where we are going to live and what kind of a dwelling we will live in. Understanding this, we can see how difficult life in the ghettos was for the Jews. We can also see how the arrangement of the ghettos did not benefit the inhabitants, but rather in some cases caused death. Now you all know a lot more. Nice work. You should be proud of yourselves! How can you use what you've learned to see beyond the black and white of a topic and into the grayer areas? What other parts of Life in the Ghettos could still be explored? Remember, learning never stops.}

 

 

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