Holocost Questions

1. Provide a brief description of the Holocaust (What was it, why did it happen, where it occurred etc.)

The holocost was the sence less killing of over 6 million Jews and 5 million other Europeans under the command of Adolf Hilter. This took place is concentartion camps all over polland during World War II. This took place because of enormous emounts of racism. Hilter wanted evryone to have blonde hair and blue eyes, if you did not you were to be killed.

2. Explain the “final solution plan.”

The final solution plan was the term that Germans used as the plan for the extermination of the remaining Jewish people. This plan took placein many stages. These were small to start, with such things as discrmination and escalated until the extermination of the Jews was common to Germans.
2,700,000 Jews were killed during the "final solution plan" at the death camps.

3. Explain what a “ghetto” was during the Holocaust.'

During the Holocaust, ghettos were a big  step in the Nazi process of control, the enslavement , and mass murder of the Jews. A ghetto was a small town with terriblwliving conditions which the Nazis used to seperate the Jews from the rest of the population.

4. Describe the living conditions of life in a ghetto.

The living conditions that the Jewish people were forced to live in were aweful. Disease spread quickly because of the large number of people who were crammed into such little space. These people were also given little to no food, medacine, clothes, or contact with the out side world.

5. Explain what a concentration camp was during the holocaust.

During the Holocost the concentration camp was the place where jews were forced to work or be killed.

6. Explain the three reasons in which Auschwitz was created.
Auschwitz was constructed to serve three purposes to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time. To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises and to serve as a site to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany.

7. State the statistics explaining how many people were sent to Auschwitz and how many were executed there.

1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. SS and police authorities deported approximately 200,000 other victims to Auschwitz, including 140,000-150,000 non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 25,000 others (Soviet civilians, Lithuanians, Czechs, French, Yugoslavs, Germans, Austrians, and Italians).

8. List two things you learned about Auschwitz III-Buna

The Holocaust was a mass killing and torturing of innocent people such as Jews, Gypsies, or mentally challenged. Ghettos and Concentration camps were terrible they had no food and about 12 people lived together in 2 rooms. They also held selections on what people to kill and also killed babies as if they were target practice.