The Holocaust World War II Flashcards
Architect of the Holocaust
Adolph Eichmann, the architect of the holocaust, was captured by Israeli agents, tried and executed for his crimes.
Star of David
By the start of World War II, all Jews were forced to wear the Star of David some where upon their body to show that they were of Jewish descent. All
those who refused were imprisoned, Punished and maybe even killed.
Ghettos
Jews were first moved to Ghettos within German cities; city districts that were walled off and locked, preventing the Jews from escaping.
Displacement/ Concentration Camps
The Jews were moved, in their thousands, to death camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka by train. they were murdered by the hundreds by firing squads and in gas chambers. Men, women and children were executed, and their bodies burned in crematoriums.
How the Holocaust is remembered