1. Jews in Germany / AntisemitismAllie Gunning, Miah Hayward,
Juliet Damon 11/26/13 English
2. Facts 1-3 Antisemitismprejudice or hostility against Jews
Around 6 million Jews were deported in Germany during the
Holocaust.90% of the Jews still living in Germany were killed
during the Holocaust.
3. Facts 4 & 5 Substantial numbers of the 100,000 German
Jews who had moved to European countries that were occupied by the
Nazis were also killed.214,000 Jews were still living in Germany at
the time the Holocaust started.
4. Facts 6-8 The Holocaust was an event based on antisemitism.
About 15,000 German Jews survived the Concentration Camps or
survived by going into hiding.Jews were forced to live in ghettos
and concentration camps.
5. Facts 9-11 Jews were forced to wear a star with the word
Jude written inside of it. Jude means Jew in German.Jews were
persecuted in Germany.
6. Facts 12 & 13 The Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the
liberation of the AuschwitzBirkenau death camps in 1945.Over 1.1
million children died during the Holocaust.
7. Fact 14 Young children were particularly targeted by the
Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique
threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new
generation of Jews. Many children suffocated in the crowded cattle
cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately
taken to the gas chambers.
8. Fact 15 Usually Jewish prisoners, called Sonderkommando,
were forced to bury corpses or burn them in ovens. Most
Sonderkommandos were regularly gassed because the Nazis did not
want eyewitnesses. Fewer than 20 of the serveral thousand
Sonderkommandos survived, and some of the Sonderkommandos buried
their testimony in jars before their deaths. Ironically, the
Sonderkommandos were dependent on the continued shipment of Jews to
concentration camps for staying alive.