The Holocaust

By: Mike Cavanaugh

 


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What was the Holocaust? 

The Holocaust was a term used to describe the systematic torture and murder of approximately six million European Jews and millions of other "undesirables" by the Nazi  regime from 1933 to 1945.

The Holocaust began from Adolf Hitler's beliefs and took place during World War II. Hitler's goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population from Europe. 


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Concentration Camps

Concentration camps were camps in which Jews were imprisoned by Nazis. All of the Jews were isolated and held in these camps because the Germans considered them undesirable.These camps were located in Germany and other areas throughout Europe. 

In these camps, the Jews were required to do forced labor and many of the prisoners died within months of arriving from violence or starvation.

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Extermination Camps

Extermination camps or "Death Camps," played a major role in the genocide that was taking placing during the Holocaust. These camps were designed and built specifically for the purpose of killing millions of Jews. The prisoners of these camps were often shot or beaten and only survived a few hours here once they arrived. 

The six major extermination camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka.


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Gas Chambers

Gas chambers were big, sealed rooms (usually with shower nozzles). Gas chambers used poison Zyklon B gas to murder Jewish prisoners in extermination camps. These chambers were very powerful and could kill over one thousand people at a time.

Many of the Jewish prisoners were led into gas chambers with the belief they were going in to take a shower, however in reality they were being put to death.


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Reference page: 

Holocaust Museum Houston

Work Cited:

https://www.hmh.org/la_holocaust_terms.shtml 

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