1 what does the holocaust mean?
Systematic extermination of Jews and other groups carried out by the nazi Germany. During the
Second World War the Nazis murdered almost 6 million European Jews. This genocide is called
holocaust, the name holocaust comes from ancient Greek and means burning everything. It was
already used before the war to describe the death of a large group of people but became the
reference for the death of the Jews in the Second World War.
2 how was the situation of the Jews before Hitler's arrival?
Jews lived in large cities with population over the non-Jewish people that lived in towns also many
of them didn't attend to synagogue, but they celebrated Jewish holidays. The
mayor part of the Jews was of the middle class, and many worked or owned small businesses. Many
of them saw themselves as a religious group, they were Germans that practiced Judaism, but others
saw themselves as an ethnic group like Jews that lived in Germany.
3 what was a ghetto? And the deportations?
Ghettos were urban districts in which Germans forced the Jewish people to live in miserable
conditions, they separated the Jews from the non-Jewish population as well as others Jewish
communities. Jews were also deported this means that they were sent by trains or trucks to
exterminations camps most of the deportees where immediately sent to the gas chambers where
they were murdered in large people groups.
4 Is a concentration camp the same as an extermination camp?
No, it's not the same, extermination camps were where they were systematically killed and its
function was exclusively to murder a large number of human beings and concentration camps are
where they were drafted for forced labours and they had three proposes : 1.to destroy people that
the nazi regime saw as a threat to the security 2. to eliminate by murder individuals and small groups
3. to exploit people by forced labours.
5 Find out how many concentration camps there were. Which one was the first?
By the time the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, unleashing World War II, there were
44 thousand concentration camps.
Nazi officials established the first concentration camp on Dachau the 22 of March of 1933, for
political prisoners. Later it was use as a model for an expanded and centralized concentration camp
system managed by the SS the elite guard of the Nazi party
6 Name the extermination camps and then locate them on Google Earth.
Dachau (1933) next to the Dachau village in the northeast of Munich (48°16′12″N 11°28′06″E /
48.2699, 11.4683)
Sachsenhausen (1936) ubicated in the poblation oranienburg in brandeburgo.(52°45′58″N
13°15′45″E / 52.7662, 13.2624)
Buchenwald (1937) on the Ettersberg hill near the city of Weimar (GPS 51° 1' 17.4216" N, 11° 14'
57.2604" E)
Flossenbürg in northeastern Bavaria near the 1937 Czech border (1938) (49°44′08″N 12°21′21″E /
49.73556°N 12.35583°E / 49.73556; 12.35583)
