Facts Of Holocaust: Information About Holocaust
Facts about Holocaust
Six millions Jew people were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide.
There were 39 camps in total
The most deaths occurred at Treblinka, Warsaw and Sobibor in Poland, Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria, Auschwitz in Poland and Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany
Between December 1941 and the end of 1944, more than four million people, mainly Jews, were murdered in the six camps of Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzac, Majdanek and Auschwitz
More than 9,000 people were killed each day at the height of exterminations at Auschwitz
An estimated 1.1 million to 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz
The mass murder, which wiped out two-thirds of all European Jews, was called the 'Final Solution' by the Nazis
In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.
The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party").
The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.