HOLOCAUST

By Haley Bandemer
World History
3rd Hr.
Introduction to Holocaust
The word Holocaust comes
from the greek words holos
and kaustos. The Holocaust is
a Jewish sacrificial offering that
is burned completely on an
altar. The holocaust was the
systematic, bureaucratic, state-
sponsored persecution and
murder to six million Jews by
the Nazi regime and its
collaborators. Other groups
were also targeted such as
gypsies, homosexuals, and
Russians. (Holocaust Memorial
Museum)
Hitler
He was born in Austria in 1889,
and also served during WW1
with the german army. He
served nine months in prison for
treason. He later then became a
member of the Nationalist
Socialist German Workers Party
(NSDAP). While Hitler was
imprisoned he wrote Mein
Kampf, which would lead to
extermination of the Jewish race
in Germany. Hitler made himself
Germanys supreme ruler. (The
History Channel: The Holocaust)
The Germans How it Hitler first
banned Jews
from schools,
military, and
Started started with
Austria's Jews.
professions. He made all
The Jews lost Jews wear the
everything Star of David
including on their
homes and sleeve.
business.

The real start of the holocaust was on

November 9/10 and it was called The Night of
Broken Glass (Kristallnacht).
Concentration Camps Main Camps
There were around 20,000
camps between between 1933 Auschwitz (Poland)
and 1945. Not all camps were
concentration camps. There was Buchenwald (Germany)
forced-labor camps, where Jews
were put to work. Then there Chelmno (Poland)
were extermination camps
where Jews were put to death Dachau (Germany)
using gas chambers. Camps
conditions were more than Belzec (Poland)
awful. They smelled really bad
and the people got treated
poorly and barely got any food.
(Jewish Virtual Library)
 Around 300,000 Jews survived
all the camps. All the people

SURVIVORS that are still alive, not just the

Jews, is around 500,000. A lot
of Jews survived because they
WWll escaped and went to Israel.
(The Holocaust: A learning Site
for Students.)
 Works
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Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. Web. 03 June 2016.

History.com Staff. "The Holocaust." History.com. A&E Television

Networks, 2009. Web. 03 June 2016.

"The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: The Nazi Holocaust
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Concentration Camps: How Many Camps? How Many Concentration

Camps? N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2016.

The Holocaust. Holocaust History. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2016.