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Holocaust

Holocaust. Concentration camp vs. Death Camp. Concentration camps were for “reforming,” hard labor, POW, etc. Death camps were for killing Jewish people. Concentration camp prisoners building a factory. Conditions were so bad in these camps that most prisoners died.

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Holocaust

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  1. Holocaust

  2. Concentration camp vs. Death Camp Concentration camps were for “reforming,” hard labor, POW, etc. Death camps were for killing Jewish people Concentration camp prisoners building a factory. Conditions were so bad in these camps that most prisoners died. Women and children waiting to be gassed at Auschwitz

  3. MAP OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS USED BY THE NAZIS.

  4. walling off the Warsaw ghetto - 1940. 400,000 Jews were placed in an area slightly larger than 1 square mile. Death tolls, including those taken away and those killed in an uprising in 1943, totaled more than 300,000

  5. Child dying on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto

  6. Jewish civilians: during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943

  7. Ruins of the ghetto after the Germans destroyed it. The Jews had risen up against the Nazis.

  8. Part of a stockpile of Zyklon-B poison gas pellets found at Majdanek death camp. Before poison gas was used , Jews were gassed in mobile gas vans. Carbon monoxide gas from the engine’s exhaust was fed into the sealed rear compartment. Victims were dead by the time they reached the burial site.

  9. People were put in the “shower.” • Gas pellets were put in the shower heads • 15 minutes later the shower room would be emptied. • The bodies were always in a pyramid shape: they would try to climb to the top to escape the gas.

  10. Prisoner torture at Dachau

  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff3ZiPM2W0Y&feature=fvst- Mengele • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SCSouI8WE – Edward R. Murrow

  12. Bales of hair shaven from women at Auschwitz, used to make felt-yarn. After liberation, an Allied soldier displays a stash of gold wedding rings taken from victims at Buchenwald.

  13. Percentage of Jews killed in each country AUSTRIA 35% POLAND 91% USSR 36% NORWAY 45% BELGIUM 45% LUXEMBOURG 55% ESTONIA 44% ROMANIA 84% A Total of 6,000,000 Jews HUNGARY 74% YUGOSLAVIA 81% BOHEMIA 60% LATVIA 84% NETHERLANDS 71% LITHUANIA 85% GERMANY 36% FRANCE 22% GREECE 87%

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