ghettos and final solution- ww2: Flashcards
ghetto:
areas in towns or cities where jews seperated by force. Poland and other areas.
conditions of the ghettos:
starved to death for some
hungry skinny poor unhealthy forced labour over crowded-diseases
begging on streets, diary of pepa bergman-14yrs
in photos-malnourished, skinny, no bones sad, ready tow rk for manual labour
7-9 shared one room-on average
nazi death squad:
Einsatzgruppen
exute/shot and beat people to death
nd finwhat did nazis come to realised after invasion of poland?
they realsied that in the areas of nazi occupied poland there was many jews- 2 million jews
leading Reinhard heyrdich to temporarily gather all jews and move them to certain areas-ghtettos
final solution:
20th Jan 1942 with 15 other leading officials to decide on final solution for the jews in nazi occupied europe.
known as wanseee conference and met at a villa near berlin
Reihard Heydrich:
borin in 1904
assasinated by czech jewish partisans. died 1942 3 yrs before ww2 ended
racist, anitsemitic, strong nazism beliefs man w iron heart-nickname
why did murder of jews move to west?
War agaisnt USSR going bad and nazi leaders worried didnt want their people to know.
why did murder of jews move to west?
War agaisnt USSR going bad and nazi leaders worried didnt want their people to know.
after final solution:
mass genocide of jews across europe over next 12 months
poland alone -1.2 milion
program codenames operation reinhard
transported them from ghettos to death camps
how did nazis carry out final solution:
most jews died from march-february-1942-43
prepare for fs built 6 death camps chelmno, belzec, aushwitz, maidanek, sobibor, treblinka
built railway tracks near where nazis were gathered to transport them to to death camps easily sytemic -most effiecient way to kill as many jews as possible
by summer 1942-farmhouses had been coverted into deathcamps,
began buliding ab in octber 1942
1000s of romas deported to ab
couldnt cope with big numbers so by march 1943-new bulidings opened w chambers and crematorial ovens and zyklon b to gas them w.
100s died from diseaseds and gcs,
death camps:
camp where people are gathered togteher tp be killed
concentration camp:
a camp where people are gathered together to be segregated from society usually with the aim of making them do hard labours.