The Holocaust Flashcards
What is the holocaust known as
The final solution
What is the holocaust
The term that the jewish people would give tp hitlers actions against the jewish people of Germany. Hitler also discriminated against black people, gypsies, people with mental disabilities were also mistreated and killed
When was the decision finally made to exterminate the jews
20 january 1942
Where was the decision made to finally exterminate 11 milion jews
At Wannsee, just outside berlin
What is genocide
A mass murder that is intended to destroy a national, ethnic or “racial” group of people
Who was given the task of drawing up the details of the ‘final solution’
Adolph Eichmann
How many death camps were established
6
Process of how jews were transported then killed
They were transported to camps in cattle trucks, many died during the journey. When they arrived at the camp, they were separated into those who could work and those who could not. Those who couldn’t work were executed immediately. They were told to undress im order to shower, instead of water coming out gas came out and killed them. Other jews were used to remove the bodies and take them to ovens or mass graves
What was the most common gases they used to kill the jews
Carbon Monoxide and Zyklon B
What was one of the death camps
Auschwits
Who was and when did the ss officer witness the gasisng at Belzec death camp and then commited suicide
Kurt Gerstein in August 1942
How did jewish people publicly identify themselves
With the star of david
What does USSR stand for
Union of soviet socialist republics
Where was the largest ghetto
In warsaw
When was the horror of the holocaust discovered
At the end of the war when the camps were liberated by the allied forces and the terrible truth was uncovered
