1. The Holocaust is the mass slaughter of 6 million Jews, and 5 millions others by the Nazi's and Hitler. It happened because the Nazi's had different religious/political views, and because these people failed to be of the Aryan race, which is blonde hair and blue eyes. It occurred in Europe, mainly in Germany, Poland and Austria.
2. The "final solution" plan was a code name for the Nazi's total extermination of the Jews, gypsies, and other's they were persecuting.
3. A "ghetto" was a city district in which the Germans concentrated the Jewish population and forced them to live under horrible conditions.
4. The living conditions in the ghettos were crowded. Jews had to wear the yellow star of David on their clothes to show they were Jewish.
5. Concentration Camps were where Jews were taken to live, and essentially be killed.
6. 1) To incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time.
2) To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises (and, later, armaments and other war-related production)
3) 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. Approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 200,000 other victims were deported. At least 960,000 Jews were killed. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians.
8. The Jews who were assigned to work in the factories had a much greater survival chance because factory workers were considered too valuable to kill, at least while they were still able to work.
Elie Wiesel worked at Monowitz.
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