Fifty Things I Know About the Holocaust

1. Children were the most vulnerable of the Holocaust
2. About 1.5 million children were killed
3. Children died of starvation in the ghettos
4. Einsatzgruppen was a mobile killing unit
5. They followed the German army around
6. The army also suplied them with food and equipment
7. The unit would had a name for the burying they did which was called "sardine packet"
8. The unit only killed jewish men but they started killng women and children
9. They also had mobilized gas chambers
10. They needed a different way to kill without bullets
11. From 1933-1945 made about 20,000 camps
12. Holocaust means sacrafice by water in Greece
13. Chelmno was the first killing center to be opened in 1941 in Poland
14. The Nazis began to experiment with gas for mass killings in the late 1939
15. Over 400,000 jews were forced to live in Warsaw ghetto
16. Warsaw was one of the largest ghetto's
17. The Jewish were forced to wear a band with a star
18. The homosexuals were forced to were pink triangles
19. Ghettos were city districs
20. Their were 1,000 ghettos in Germany
21. The first ghetto was in in Poland
22. Soveit forces were the first to reach a major camp
23. in 1933 the Jewish population was over 9 million
24. Jews were one of the four targeted
25. The earliast victims were political members
26. They opened killing centers in Belzec
27. In Sobibor
28. Also in Treblinka
29. The largest was in Auschwitz-Biskenau
30. By 1943 it had four gas chambers
31. Majdanek was the sixth killing center
32. Children were killed first
33. They were also killed after birth
34. Children over 12 were put to work
35. They shot thousands of at the edge of ditches
36. About two thirds of jews were killed
37. When it ended six million Jews were killed
38. Hitler thought of him self as a deep thinker
39. They also targeted Gypseis
40. They were deported to Lodz ghetto
41. They also attacked Christian preists
42. The Holocaust was a type of genocide
43. Also Soviet citizens
44. And Soviet prisoners
45. Himmler was one of the generals helping
46. Hitler went to jail for a while
47. Hitler thought of all the ideas to do to people in jail
48. Hitler had a very weird relationship with his neice
49. Hitler commited suicide beofore they entered his bunker
50. The Holocaust ended in 1945