What do we know about the Holocaust?

The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler

Happened in Europe in WWII

The book burning was an initial event that revoked people's rights

Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands.

Jews lost personal rights

Jews were placed in ghettos. Ghettos was a confined area within a town where one would be placed.

The largest concetration camp was Auschwitz

There were gas chambers in the camps and they were disguised as showers

Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, burned and worked to death

Anne Frank- Kept a diary detailing hiding from the Gustapo

Poles, homosexuals, political opponents, gypsies, disabled, Soviet prisoners of war and those who who helped Jews were all targed groups by the Nazis.

6 million Jews were killed / 11 million total

Some people doubt the existance of the Holocaust

Survivors still exist today.