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Monday, November 26, 2012

1. Holocaust Facts

In anticipation of our reading The Devil's Arithmetic, I want EACH of you to post 10 new facts you never knew before about the Holocaust. 

Be sure to number your findings. 


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  1. 1. The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide.

    2. The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party").

    3. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.

    4. An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.

    5. After World War II started in 1939, the Nazis began ordering Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so that Jews could be easily recognized and targeted.

    6. Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps.

    7. At a number of Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on prisoners against their will.

    8. The Nazis built six extermination camps: Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Majdanek. (Auschwitz and Majdanek were both concentration and extermination camps.)

    9. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.

    10. After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific, areas of big cities, called ghettos.

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  3. 1. The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party").
    2. The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.
    3. It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
    4. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
    5. An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
    6. After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific, areas of big cities, called ghettos.
    7. Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families
    8. The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire,"
    9. Hitler didn't start the Nazi movement he was in it then became a leader
    10. The Nazi salute is from the Roman salute

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  4. These are unbelieveable facts about the Holocaust.
    1:Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust.
    2:100,000 Jews died during “death marches.
    3:The Finance Ministry took Jewish wealth and property. Universities researched more efficient ways to murder.
    4:The first mass gassing of Jews took place in the Chelmno extermination camp
    5.In one infamous concentration camp experiment, newborn babies were taken away from nursing mothers to see how long they could survive without feeding.
    6:After WWII,the Allies grappled with whether to hold only the Nazi leaders accountable for the Holocaust.
    7:After the war, the Allies felt that the German people should know the crimes committed during the Holocaust. Many citizens were forced to view bodies found at the concentration camps.
    8:The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic,as the Third Reich) quickly became a regime in which Germans enjoyed no guaranteed basic rights.
    9:In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship,the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals.
    10: In the context of this ideological war, the Nazis planned and implemented the Holocaust, the mass murder of the Jews, who were considered the primary "racial" enemy.

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  5. 1. 6 million Jews were killed.
    2. In 1933 the Jewish population of Europe stood at over 9 million.
    3. They murdered Jews in an Euthanasia Program.
    4. German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents.
    5. Police officials moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials.
    6. Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on prisoners against their will.
    7. German SS and police units were supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS.
    8. They put them in killing centers often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
    9. In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called death marches.
    10.In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers.

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  6. 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.In addition to Jews, 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.

    3.The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.

    4.On April 1, 1933, the Nazis instigated their first action against German Jews by announcing a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses.

    5.The Nuremberg Laws, issued on September 15, 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The Nuremberg Laws included a law that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. The Nuremberg Laws set the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation.

    6.Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs (i.e. government jobs), made Jews register their property, and prevented Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than Jewish patients.

    7.Some ghettos started out as "open," which meant that Jews could leave the area during the daytime but often had to be back within the ghetto by a curfew. Later, all ghettos became "closed," which meant that Jews were trapped within the confines of the ghetto and not allowed to leave.

    8.An estimated 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust.

    9.Those who survived Dr. Josef Mengele’s experiments were almost always murdered and dissected. Many children were maimed or paralyzed and hundreds died. He was known by children as “Onkel Mengele” and would bring them candy and toys before personally killing them. He later died in a drowning accident in Brazil in 1979.

    10.When the Nazis attempted to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto on April 13, 1943, the remaining Jews fought back in what has become known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jewish resistance fighters held out against the entire Nazi regime for 28 days -- longer than many European countries had been able to withstand Nazi conquest.

    -Erwin.G

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  7. 1.The holocaust began in 1941 and lasted four years.
    2."Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."
    3.Many people died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment.
    4.Approximately 11 million people died in the Holocaust.
    5.The Nazis burned and destroyed the Jews homes and businesses.
    6.Jews were forced to stay in the ghetto.
    7.30,000-35,000 were killed in two days.
    8.The were separated from their families.
    9.Some Nazis were against killing the Jews.
    10.Those whom suffer from mental illness were killed first.

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  8. 1. Hitler didn't start the Nazi movement he was in it then became a leader
    2. The Nazi salute is from the Roman salute
    3. About 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
    4. The Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments.
    5. Its an estimated that The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
    6.Jews often tried to resist the genocide.
    7.German doctors often used prisoners in macabre medical experiments.
    8.The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people
    9.There were three types of extermination camps. At Aktion Reinhardt extermination camps prisoners were gassed upon arrival. At Concentration–extermination camps some prisoners were chosen for slave labor instead of immediate death and minor extermination camps operated as prisons and transit camps until late in the war, when portable gas chambers and gas vans were used to execute the prisoner
    10.About 90 per cent of Jews living in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Baltic states were annihilated in the Holocaust.

    -EdsonCejudo

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  9. 1.The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire."
    2.The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution," to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.
    3.The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
    4.An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
    5.The Nuremberg Laws, issued on September 15, 1993, began to exclude Jews from public life.
    6.After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific areas of big cities, called ghettos.
    7.Although many people refer to all Nazi camps as "concentration camps," there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner of war camps, and transit camps.
    8.While concentration camps were meant o work and starve prisoners to death, extermination camps were built for the sole purpose of killing large groups of people quickly and efficiently.
    9.Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built.
    10.It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.
    -Jesenia Hernandez

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  10. 1. Between 1933 and 1915, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps.
    2. There were different reasons for different camps. There were forced-labor camps, transit camps, and extermination camps.
    3. Extermination camps were used for mass murder.
    4. The people kept in the camps were considered 'enemies of the state.' These enemies included German communists, social democrats, gypsies, Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals, and people accused of asocial or socially deviant behavior.
    5. The holocaust was a state sponsored prosecution, & killed over six million Jews.
    6. In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million.
    7. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews.
    8. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers.
    9. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe.
    10. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The DP Jews emigrated to the United States and other countries.
    __Ashlee Caitlyn Stambaugh__

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  11. 1.The word holocaust is a Greek origin that means "sacrifice by fire".
    2.By 1945, the Germans killed 2 out of every 3 European Jews as part of the "final solution".
    3.They established about 20,000 camps to imprison many victims.
    4.The Nazis constructed gas chambers to increase killing efficiency.About 6,000 Jews were gassed there each day.
    5.Only a small fraction of people imprisoned in Nazi camps survived.
    6."Pogrom" is a Russian word meaning "to wreak havoc,to demolish violently". It refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in The Russian Empire and in other countries.
    7.After liberation,many Jewish survivors feared to live in their former homes.
    8.Tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories.
    9.Out of 400,000 people displaced,approximately 68,000 Jews entered the US.
    10."Genocide" is a specific term referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of a group.

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  12. 1.Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.
    2.Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families.
    3.Hitler did not actually start all of the Nazi movement he was in it then he became leader.
    4.An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
    5.The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe
    6.The nazi salute is the same as the Roman salute
    7.At a number of Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments on prisoners against their will.
    8.After the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific, areas of big cities, called ghettos.
    9.After World War II started in 1939,the Nazis began ordering Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so that Jews could be easily recognized and targeted.
    10.Hitler tried killing himself with a pill but the shake of the building he was in made him drop it.

    Lee Norris



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  13. 1)The Holocaust began with Hitlers rise to power in January 1933 ; ended on VE day (May 8, 1945)
    2)More than 6 million Jews died
    3)June 1941 Germany attacked the Soviet Union
    4)Germany World War II with the invasion of Poland in September of 1939
    5)The word Holocaust means huge massacre
    6)More than 11 million men, women , and children were murdered
    7)Prisoners (mainly Jews) called Sonderkammandos were forced to bury corpes or burn them in ovens
    8)Kristallnacht or "Nigh of Broken Glass" occured throughout Germany and Austria on November 9, 1938
    9)Approxiametly 220,000 - 500,000 Gypsies were killed during the Holocaust
    10)Approximately 100,000 Jews did during "death marches"
    -Jale'a Worthy

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  14. 1. The term "Holocaust" is the Greek word for "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire"

    2. The Jews were forced to live in specific areas called the Ghetto.

    3. The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.

    4. The Nazi's slaughtered the Jewish people.\

    5. About 1.1 million children were killed in the Holocaust.

    6. About 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust.

    7. Most of the Nazi's targeted the Gypsies.

    8. Hitler sent his people to break into the Jews home and have them taken away and sent to a concentration camp.

    9. The prisoners were tortured very frequently and it was common.

    10. They were excluded from public areas.

    - Jasmine Rubio.

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  15. I didn't knew that
    1. Anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was to be exterminated without exception.
    2. they made experiment with Jews children.
    3. if the children survive the experiment the Germans would kill that child.
    4. the Jews people were considered to be a race rather than a religion.
    5. In a speech a man called the Jews people "predators" and "cholera bacilli" who should be "exterminated" for the good of the German people.
    6. The Germans had three enemies in mind "racial", "political opponents" and reactionaries".
    7. About 11 millions of people were killed in the holocaust.
    8. the Nazis killed almost two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
    9. ghettos started out as "open," which meant that Jews could leave the area during the daytime but often had to be back within the ghetto by a curfew. Later, all ghettos became "closed," which meant that Jews were trapped within the confines of the ghetto and not allowed to leave.
    10. The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, with its highest population reaching 445,000 in March 1941.

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  16. 1. the Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945
    2. the term Nazi is an acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party.
    3.The Nazi used the term 'the Final Solution' to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people
    4. the estimated number of people killed were 11 million, 6 million were Jews
    5. Nazi's killed approximately two thirds of all Jews

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  17. 1) The holocaust was aslo know as the Shoah
    2)Was the mass murder or Genocide of approximately six million European jews during World War 2
    3)Only approximately two thirds of the jews were killed
    4)Over one million childern, Over two million women, Over three million men were killed
    5)The term Holocaust comes from the Greek word an animal sacrifice
    6)They had camps that had gas chambers for the prisoners
    7)All the jews they let live were put in camps called Concentration camps
    8)All the Nazi are spilt up into 35 groups now
    9)the holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945
    10)The Nazi's used the term "the final solution" for the jews

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