Here are some facts:
The Nazis were able to identify Jews through census records, tax returns, parish records, routine but mandatory police registration forms, the questioning of relatives, and from information provided by neighbors.
The prisoners in the Holocaust lived in 2 types of barracks: brick and wooden barracks. The brick buildings were erected with great haste, without suitable insulation, on marshy ground.
More than 700 people were assigned to each barrack, although in practice the figure was sometimes higher.
The wooden barracks were normally meant to hold 52 horses.
The stalls contained 3 tier wooden bunks, and several hundred prisoners lived in each barrack.
The barracks were infested with rats and vermin (wild mammals and birds that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or that carry disease).
Dampness, leaky roofs, and the fouling of straw and straw mattresses by prisoners suffering from diarrhea made difficult living conditions worse.
Prisoners got 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, which were usually scraps, and hard bread. It was NOT a gourmet dinner at all!
Prisoners no longer had names; they were replaced with numbers that were tattooed onto their left arms.
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis created a set off against Jews in Austria and Germany, which was later to be called the Night Of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht.
This night of violence had breaking windows of Jewish owned businesses, burning churches, and many Jews were physically attacked. Around 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
6 million Jews were killed or died along with an estimated 4 million to 6 million non-Jews during the Holocaust.
The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
Hitler also went after the Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, and the disabled because Hitler wanted this perfect white race with no one who was different.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest camp.
There were about 20,000 camps which were used for forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps, built primarily or exclusively for mass murder.
The prisoners in the Holocaust lived in 2 types of barracks: brick and wooden barracks. The brick buildings were erected with great haste, without suitable insulation, on marshy ground.
More than 700 people were assigned to each barrack, although in practice the figure was sometimes higher.
The wooden barracks were normally meant to hold 52 horses.
The stalls contained 3 tier wooden bunks, and several hundred prisoners lived in each barrack.
The barracks were infested with rats and vermin (wild mammals and birds that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or that carry disease).
Dampness, leaky roofs, and the fouling of straw and straw mattresses by prisoners suffering from diarrhea made difficult living conditions worse.
Prisoners got 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, which were usually scraps, and hard bread. It was NOT a gourmet dinner at all!
Prisoners no longer had names; they were replaced with numbers that were tattooed onto their left arms.
On the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis created a set off against Jews in Austria and Germany, which was later to be called the Night Of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht.
This night of violence had breaking windows of Jewish owned businesses, burning churches, and many Jews were physically attacked. Around 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
6 million Jews were killed or died along with an estimated 4 million to 6 million non-Jews during the Holocaust.
The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
Hitler also went after the Gypsies, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, and the disabled because Hitler wanted this perfect white race with no one who was different.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest camp.
There were about 20,000 camps which were used for forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps, built primarily or exclusively for mass murder.