posted Feb 11, 2014, 7:25 AM by Mike Costello
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updated Feb 11, 2014, 7:49 AM
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- Per 2- Holocaust Survivor Feb. 13th
- Holocaust Facts
- Once World War II began, the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily targeted.
- Jews were forced to live in specific areas of the city called ghettos after the beginning of World War ll. In the larger ghettos, up to 1,000 people a day were picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps.
- Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) occurred on November 9th and 10th, 1938. Nazis pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
- In prison camps, prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor. Torture and death within concentration camps were common and frequent.
- 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children). 6 million of those victims were Jewish. Other groups targeted by the Nazis were Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Gypsies.
- Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis.
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