Friday, 18 February 2011

Something everyone should know about the Holocaust

For year 10 students to add the results of their research. Tell me at least 5 things everyone needs to know about the Holocaust and the Final Solution

11 comments:

  1. 1. Homosexuals were also a victim in the Holocaust.

    2. Even Nazis were gassed, this was for treason and refusing to do the Furhrer's bidding.

    3. Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust.

    4. Three months was the life expectancy in Auswitz.

    5. 3,000,000 Jews were executed in Poland alone.

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  2. 1. Homosexuals were also a victim in the Holocaust.

    2. Even Nazis were gassed, this was for treason and refusing to do the Furhrer's bidding.

    3. Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust.

    4. Three months was the life expectancy in Auswitz.

    5. 3,000,000 Jews were executed in Poland alone.

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  3. 5 things everyone should know about the Holocaust:

    1.The Holocaust was the state-approved, systematic killing of millions.

    2.Groups of people like Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed.

    3.The name ‘Holocaust’ only came into common use during the 1980’s. It was originally called ‘The Final Solution.’

    4.People were killed by shooting and gassing.

    5.Survivors of the Holocaust are still affected by it today, and a lot refuse to talk about it.

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  4. Five things everyone should know about the Holocaust:
    • People are still affected by it today, some are still afraid to wear the Star of David in public.
    • It wasn’t just Jews who were persecuted, but Gypsies, Homosexuals and Communists.
    • Near the end of the war, the Germans took the inmates on a ‘death march’ for many miles.
    • Not all the camps were Death camps; some were Concentration camps, where people were worked to death instead of being killed outright.
    • The systemic killing of all these people was completely legal. Even so, the Germans fled Auschwitz soon before the war ended, leaving the Jews behind to die.

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  5. 1) The holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers.
    2) It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
    3) 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.
    4) Prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed.
    5) There were 22 concentration camps in Europe

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  6. •The term "Holocaust" is originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire."

    •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.

    •It took 3 to 15 minutes to kill 1000 people in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.

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  7. 1. The average life expectancy in Auschwitz was 3 months

    2. The people in Warsaw Ghetto were fed only 300 calories a day

    3. 18,000 Jewish children were sent to Britain for safety

    4. There were 22 Concentration camps in Europe

    5. 78,000 Jews left Germany in the first three years of the Nazi rule

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  8. . about 6-10 million jews were killed during the Holocaust, this is not including the other 'minorities'
    . 3 to 15 minutes, was the time it took to kill 1000 people in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.
    . 3 months were the average life expectancy in Auschwitz
    . There was approximantly 2000 people killed during one day at Auschwitz.
    . Bodies were stripped of any valuables and clothing, which were then sent to Germany. The bodies were then burnt.

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  9. 1. There were 7 tones of hair found left over when the Auschwich was done with
    2.The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers.
    3.The nazi may of mainly targeted Jews but the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.
    4.The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.
    5.It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.

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  10. Ashleigh Ettleman, Nicole Cormick18 February 2011 at 09:50

    Ghettoes housing Jews were sealed off
    Holocaust
    The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz took place in 1941
    Holocaust
    Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz in 1942
    Holocaust
    Deportations of Jews to Concentration and Extermination camps
    Holocaust
    In 1944 President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and Japanese ongoing "crimes against humanity."
    Holocaust
    In 1944 Auschwitz records its highest daily number of people gassed and burned at just over 9,000.
    Holocaust
    In 1944 Himmler orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz
    Holocaust
    Russian troops liberate Auschwitz January 27, 1945.
    Holocaust
    An estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz
    Holocaust
    Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps

    Nicole Cormick, Ashleigh Ettleman.

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  11. MG

    1 In 1942, when most of Europe was under Nazi rule, the Nazi leaders met at Wannsee, near Berlin, to discuss that they called a ‘final solution to the Jewish problem’/ At the Wannsee Conference they decided on the murder of every Jew in Europe, either by working them to death or by execution.


    2 From 1940 onwards Jews in Poland were made to live in ghettos. These were walled-off areas of towns or cities which they were not allowed to leave. The 400,000 Jews of Warsaw, for example, were made to live in an area only 2% of the size of their city.


    3 Life in the ghetto was abominable, and thousands died. There was no medicine. The food ration allowed was a quarter of that available for Germans, barely enough to allow survival. The water supplies were contaminated and epidemics of tuberculosis, typhoid and lice were common, Bodies of new victims piled up in the street faster than they could be carried away.


    4 At Auschwitz extermination camp, prisoners were divided into two groups: those who were to die in the gas chambers, and those who were to work. Many of those chosen to work became slave labourers, building a massive factory for making synthetic oil and rubber.


    5 Jews in the ghettos organised resistance on a number of occasions. Their greatest act of resistance took place in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. On 19th April, thousands of German troops entered the ghetto to remove all remaining Jews to the extermination camps. Several hundred Jews, armed only with pistols and petrol bombs, tried to halt them. In the desperate battle that followed, the Germans destroyed the entire ghetto with fire and bombs, killing 5,000 Jews.

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