- Fact 2 - The word, Holocaust,
derives from Ancient Greek word 'holocaustos' ('holo' meaning
wholly and 'caustos' meaning burnt) understood to mean complete
destruction. The term is used for Adolf Hitler's attempted
genocide of European Jews known as the "final solution".
- Holocaust Fact 3 - During the
Holocaust the Nazis also targeted homosexuals, Gypsies and the
disabled for persecution.
- Fact 4 - It is estimated that
11,000,000 people were killed during the Holocaust. 6,000,000 of
these were Jews.
- Holocaust Fact 5 - In 1933 Adolf
Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazis
instigated their first action against German Jews by announcing
a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses.
- Fact 6 - The Nazis opened the
following concentration camps including:
- Dachau, near Munich
- Buchenwald near Weimar
- Sachsenhausen near Berlin
- Ravensbruck near Berlin for women
- Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland
- Banjica in Serbia
- Bardufoss in Norway
- Belzec in Poland
- Bergen-Belsen in Germany
- Bogdanovka in Moldova
- Bredtvet in Norway
- Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Poland
- Herzogenbusch (Vught) in
Netherlands
- Janowska in Ukraine
- Jasenovac in Croatia
- Majdanek in Poland
- Maly Trostenets in Belarus
- Oberer Kuhberg in Germany
- Sajmiste in Serbia
- Sobibór in Poland
- Treblinka in Poland
- Warsaw in Poland
- Holocaust Fact 7 - Nazis defined a
non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially
Jewish, parents or grandparents
- Holocaust Fact 8 - Nazis issued a
Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan,
especially Jewish, parents or grandparents
- Holocaust Fact 9 - In 1933 Nazis
passed a law allowing for forced sterilization of those found to
have genetic defects and passed another law allowing beggars,
the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to
concentration camps.
- Holocaust Fact 10 - 1935 -
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were decreed
- Holocaust Fact 11 - 1938 - Nazis
order Jews to register wealth and property. Jews over age 15
were also required to apply for identity cards to be shown on
demand to any police officer. Jewish passports had to be stamped
with a large red "J."
- Holocaust Fact 12 - In 1939 Jews in
Germany were subject to a curfew and doctors, lawyers and
dentists were forbidden to practice
- Fact 13 - Jews were gathered into
ghettoes
- Fact 14 - Jews were required to
wear yellow stars on their clothing
- Fact 15 - Ghettoes housing Jews
were sealed off
- Holocaust Fact 16 - The first test
use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz took place in 1941
- Holocaust Fact 17 - Mass killings
of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz in 1942
- Holocaust Fact 18 - Deportations of
Jews to Concentration and Extermination camps
- Holocaust Fact 19 - In 1944
President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and
Japanese ongoing "crimes against humanity."
- Holocaust Fact 20 - In 1944
Auschwitz records its highest daily number of people gassed and
burned at just over 9,000.
- Holocaust Fact 21 - In 1944 Himmler
orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz
- Holocaust Fact 22 - Russian troops
liberate Auschwitz January 27, 1945.
- Holocaust Fact 23 - An estimated
2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews were murdered at
Auschwitz
- Holocaust Fact 24 - Americans free
33,000 inmates from concentration camps
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