The Holocaust Flashcards
What does holocaust mean
destruction of a vast group of people
especially those who are Jewish
What does genocide mean
Killing off a race of people ☠️
What is the aryan race
A race nazis believed to be better than all the other
What is anti semitism
Hostility to Jewish people
What’s social Darwinism
Saying some races are better than others
Who led the SS
Himler
What was the section of the SS in charge of the Nazi camps called?
Death’s heads unit
Who organised the Holocaust?
Heydrich and Eichmann
Where and when did they plan the final solution (the Holocaust)
At the Wannsee conference January 1942
What happened to Jewish students
The were expelled from their schools
What happed to the Jew’s property
Taken away from them on arrival to the death / concentration camps
What happened to Jew’s with jobs
They were sacked
What were 2 things jews banned from playing and doing?
Playing sport ⚽️
Going to the cinema 🎦
How were they transported to Auschwitz
Cramped inhuman cattle trucks
What food did Jews get at auschwitz
Very limited food e.g. a bit of whale meat 🥩 🐳 and some sort of vegetable soup 🥣
What did the doctors at auschwitz do
Experimented on prisoners whenever they want
What could the SS guards to do to prisioners whenever they wanted
Kill them
