Fifty Things I Know About The Holocaust

1. about six million Jews were murdered
2. It began in June 1941
3. Germans started sending Jews to extermination camps at the end of 1941
4. At the beginning of World War II, Germany invaded Poland
5. Germans got other groups: Gypsies, the disabled, Poles, Russians and other ones
6. In 1984, Germans would kill 2 out of every three European Jews
7. Jews are the victims of Nazi racism and others were 200,000 Gypsies
8. Between 2 and 3 million people died of starvation, neglect, disease, or maltreatment.
9. German authorities killed homosexuals
10. They also killed people whose behavior isn't the same as theirs
11. National Socialist government held a concentration camp
12. The police officials kept the Jews, Roma, and other victims of racial hatred in the camps
13. The Germans and their collaborators created ghettos
14. more than a million Jewish women, men, and children were murdered
15. They deported Jews to different places to get them to killing centers where they were murdered in gassing facilities.
16. Germany invades Norway and Denmark
17. Germany attacks France
18. The Nazi got all men and women Jews and eventually kill them

19. There were certain camps for only women prisoners.
20. More than 100,000 women had been in incarcerated in Ravensbruk in 1945
21. It didn't matter to the Germans if they killed women and children Jewish or not, they still murdered them
22. Pregnant women and mothers of young children were sent to killing centers where they were included to the first group to be at the gas chambers
23. If they dressed Jewish they would be the first to be attack and be identified easier
24. A large number of children in Orthodox families made women a special target of Nazi ideology.
25. Nazis murdered women with disabilities and other euthanasia operations.
26. Women were beaten and raped
27. Pregnant Jewish women were forced to have abortion
28. Women were forced to have sexual relations for food, other necessities, or basic comforts
29. Many women in the camps made informal groups sharing information, food, and clothing.
30. Many women ran away to the forests of Eastern Poland and the Soviet Union which they served in armed partisan units
31. A member of the White Rose resistance group was arrested and executed on February 1942 because she handed out anti-Nazi leaflets
32. There were women who were leaders or members of ghetto resistance organizations
33. There were millions of women who were persecuted and murdered in the holocaust
34. What made women targets was their religious and their political affiliations not their sex.
35. Jewish were forced to live in miserable conditions
36. There were 3 types of ghettos, closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction
37. The largest ghetto is in Poland: Warsaw ghetto
38. Jews who were in ghettos had to wear identifying badges or armbands
39. 5,000-7,000 children were killed as victims
40. Jewish children die of starvation in ghettos
41. The camps took some children directly to the gas chambers
42. Children found ways to survive
43. Children snuck food and medication into the ghettos and grabbed personal things to trade
45. Children escaped with their parents, relatives, and they sometimes escaped by themselves
46. Their were some non-Jews who hid Jewish children and other families
47. They did experiments on them and they didn't use clean tools
48. The experiments they did on them was testing drugs, putting them in pressure chambers, freeing them, they did amputations, and surgeries
49. They changed their eye color by injecting chemicals in the children's eyes
50. The word holocaust means sacrifice by fire in Greek.