Holocaust: Death Camps

The Death Camps

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Einsatzgruppen killed approx. 1 million
Jews
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too slow by Nazi standards

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created death camps

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Starting 1942, Jews living in occupied
lands rounded up and shipped to
Poland
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six extermination centers were built
in Poland
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largest was Auschwitz

Multiple Choice

What was the largest of the Death Camps

• Germany

• Auschwitz

• Manchuria

• France

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30% of people sent to Auschwitz were taken to labor camps
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Starved or worked to death

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The rest of the people went to gas chambers
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Some were experimented on

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Spring 1942 death camps fully operational
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Main goal: eliminate Polish ghettos

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Summer 1942 Jews shipped from Greece & Hungary
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Even late in the war railroad cars were used to ship Jews to
death camps

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Multiple Choice

Which country had the most Death Camps?

• Norway

• Germany

• France

• Poland

The Death Toll

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Approximately 6 million Jews were killed

○More than 3 million in the death camps

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Close to 90% of Jewish population of Poland, Baltic countries, and
Germany were killed

○Holocaust responsible for nearly 2 out of every 3 European Jews

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Nazis also shot, starved, or overworked more than 9-10 million
non-Jewish people

○40% of Europe’s Roma (gypsy) people killed

○Political activists, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also killed

○Leaders of Slavic people

○4 million Poles, Ukrainians, and Belorussians died as slave laborers

○3-4 million Soviet prisoners of war

Multiple Choice

About how many Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust?

• 6 million

• 1 million

• 1,000

• 2 million

➢ Nazi mass slaughter of European Jews known as “Shoah”

○ “Total destruction”

➢ Many Jewish people tried to resist

○ Friends and strangers aided Jews

➢ During the Holocaust six million men, women, and

children (mostly Jewish) put to death in the gas chambers
○ Nazis profited from death

■ Sold personal belongings

● Gold from teeth
● Wedding rings
● Shoes
● hair

Multiple Choice

Nazis profited from the people they put to death

• True

• False

➢ Some people did not believe accounts of death camps

○ Thought it was propaganda
○ Pretended it wasn’t happening

➢ Collaborators helped Nazis hunt down Jews

○ Neighbors turned in for profit

➢ Full extent of the horror and inhumanity was not known

until the end of the war

Holocaust Encyclopedia | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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