The Holocaust Dictionary Project

1. The Holocaust Dictionary Project Patricia Keip, Bell:3A, Ms. Morrison holocaust-history.org

2. Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg policy was “attacking quickly and strongly” and with that they invaded Norway, Belgium, Holland and France. In 1938 he annexed Austria and partly Czechoslovakia, in 1939 he invaded the rest. Also in September 1939 he invaded Poland. Hitler built a powerful army to take over Europe. Millions of Jews thought they were save in different countries but he over took them all. In 1939 he invaded Poland with the Stuka dive Bombers. 1940, Germans took Paris. Britain and France finally realised he need to be stopped. Lawton, Clive, The story of the Holocaust, Danbury, 1999, Print.

3. http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=9179http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=9179 A young boy sits among the ruins of his home in Warsaw after it was destroyed during a German air raid

4. Kristallnacht On November 10, 1938 Kristallnacht or Crystallnight began. In that night they destroyed everything from houses to stores and they burned over 195 Synagogue. The Government approved laws against Jews from working. Mostly Germans were participating on burning down the Jewish houses and stores. 7,500 businesses got burned down and 236 Jews died from that, 43 women and 13 children. Jews wanted to leave Germany imediantly because they were degraded, abused, tortured, sometimes even murdered. In 1935, Hitler offiallt the anti-Semitism by passing nuremberg laws. Jews got exspelled from their jobs. On November 11, 1938 it stopped. Deem, James, Kristallnacht, Guangdong, Leo Paper Group, 2012, Print . Lawton, Clive, The story of the Holocaust, Danbury, 1999, Print.

5. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=542 The synagogue in Oberramstadt (a town in southwestern Germany) burns during Kristallnacht. Oberramstadt, Germany, November 9-10, 1938

6. Arbeitmachtfrei When arrived in Camps, when you were motioned to the right you were spared, you were motioned to the left you got killed immediately. When you were spared you got kind of like a make over, you lost all your hair and got different cloths. The greeting “Arbeitmachtfrei” , but it was the total opposite if you worked you died of exhaustion, no food and no water. When Jews died, sometimes Rats would come and eat them. The S.S. were criminals. The most virtual death sentence was being Ill and they used roll calls as a punishment. “Arbeitmachtfrei” means “working sets you free”. Lace, William, The death camps, San Diego, Lucent Books, 1998, Print

7. En.wikipedia.org The entrance of the camp

8. Auschwitz The Nazis were planning the invasion of poland. Shortly after taking over Poland they started building the concentration camp in auschwitz. Auschwitz camp prisoners were mostly Polish. They had 3 section who made up the camp, it was the main camp because it haf easy exit, centralized and it was the biggest camp of them all. Section 1 and 3 were used for slave labor and section 2 contained more barracks. Jews from all over Europe were brought to Auschwitz. The S.S. controlled everything in the camps. Lawton, Clive, Auschwitz, Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 2002, Print.

9. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?MediaId=1051 Main entrance to the auschwitz camp