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Holocaust

The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.

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Did the Germans persecute any other groups from the Jews in World War 2?

gypsies, homosexuals, the insane, crippled. anti-nazi's, and the list goes on..........

How old was Margot Frank when they moved to Amsterdam?

Margot Frank was nine and Anne was four, since they moved on February, 1934.

-7th Grader

What do you mean by the terms 1st and second generation holocaust survivors?

2nd generation is just a lazy and insulting way to say the children of Holocaust survivors.

Why where children put in concentration camps?

Same reason as adults

they were

-Jews

-Non aryan racial

etc.. but if the Children is unfit to work and they didnt have a twin, they would be shot to death or gased to death or even brutally assulted to death or raped then killed

so even if you was a child or a adult and you was sent to the camps, your likely to die

How would you describe Anne Frank?

kind, brave, stubborn, hopeful, optimistic, bright.

What was the biggest Holocaust killer?

The key means of killing included: poison gas, open air massacres, starvation and working people to death.

How were Jews treated in concentration camp?

They were starved, beaten, and killed, and even raped! Nazi's would send them to the "showers" that were gas chambers and they were killed.

What are 2 important properties of the gas used in the chamber of a Geiger counter?

What are 2 important properties of the gas used in the chamber of a Geiger counter

What kind of discrimination did the Jews experience as a result of the 1940 Nazi German invasion of the Netherlands?

75% of the jews living in Netherlands (that's over 100,000) were killed by the Nazis. The anti- jewish measure imposed by the occupying forces are increasingly restrictive for Anne. She has to go to a special Jewish school , for instance. The swim pools and cinema are off limits

What can the holocaust teach us about people having a sense of responsibility?

you can find lessons for many things in the Holocaust, including personal responsibility - people killing themselves because of what they did, national reponsibility - the passing of laws to prevent the rise of right-wing parties, inernational responsibility - the creation of the state 'Israel' to make up for not helping the Jews of Europe.

What are all the names of the concentration camps that were liberated?

Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Monowitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, Warschau, Krakow-Paszow, Soldau, Niederhagen, Dora, Flossenburg, Grossrosen, Janowska, Kaiserwald, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Oranienburg, Plaszow, Ravensbruck, Stutthof, Terezin and Westerbork

When was Anne Frank allowed to make noise?

Anne, along with the people in hiding were allowed to make noise after all the people that were downstairs had left. That was in the evening. Until then they had to be silent and do just about nothing for a long time, the little habits of the people in the Secret Annexe were magnified at this time making people 'snap' at someone else for something like tapping their fingers of twiddling their thumbs. m

What figure of speech is used in the story the destructor?

In Graham Greene's 'The Destructors,' irony is used. Although Trevor doesn't dislike or hate 'Old Misery,' yet he is still destroying his house. Metaphors are also prevalent throughout the story. For example, 'Old Misery' represents England prior to the war. The gang represents the new England. The destruction of the house, represents the devastation of the war, that had destroyed just about everything England had once possessed.

Why did the director of the movie ' Schindler's List ' show snow falling in the camps scene?

Because at first you would think it's snow, as I did. As a matter of fact it's ashes from the burnt bodies of Jews killed in the Concentration camps. It makes the film a bit more harrowing and horrific

How many families were sent to the concentration camps during the Holocaust?

around 8 million families were sent to concentration camps in the holocaust and in which few made it out alive.

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The number of individuals sent to concentration and extermination camps was lower than this ...

What year did Hitler start to dictate the Jews?

As soon he became the dictator he began to oppress the Jews

The Holocaust began - 1) The Nazis rise to power in 1933 began their Anti Semitic process, 2) The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 intensified the campaign and 3) Kristallnacht of November 1938 was the final physical manifestation.4)late June 1941 began shooting Jews where they were found. Roughly 500,000 Jews were killed in this way between July and December 1941.Establishment of death camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor in early 1942, to which Jews were transported and gassed with carbon monoxide or prussic acid

Would it have been justifiable to assassinate Hitler?

It might have spared Europe and many countries further afield a major war and much else besides.

List by country the Holocaust dead?

The Axis History Forum has a good and quite thorough thread on this subject. Please see the links.