1. The Holocaust“Sacrifice by fire”

3. Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated be the Allied Power

5. This night of violence included the pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking the windows of Jewish-owned business, the looting of these stores, and many Jews were physically attacked

7. Towards the beginning of World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live within certain, very specific, areas of big cities, called ghettos.

9. Warsaw was the largest ghetto with a population of 445,000 by March 1941

10. In most of the ghettos, Nazis ordered the Jews to establish a Judernat (a Jewish council)

12. A thousand people per day were loaded up in trains and sent to either a concentration camp or a death camp

14. The extermination camps were designed for efficient mass murder

15. The first extermination camp, opened in December 1941.

16. Jews and Roma were gassed in mobile gas vans there

18. During the height of deportations to the camp, up to 6,000 Jews were gassed there each day

19. Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the various types of Nazi camps

20. Under SS management, the Germans and their collaborators murdered more than three million Jews in the extermination camps alone.

22. In the after math of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps

24. It is estimated that eleven million people were killed during the Holocaust; six million of these were Jews

25. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe