10 facts of the HOLOCAUST

10 Facts About the Holocaust
Fact 1-Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims.

Fact 2-The camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder.

Fact 3-During the height of deportations to the camp, up to 6,000 Jews were gassed there each day.

Fact 4-"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."

Fact 5-Approximately 6 million Jews.

Fact 6-From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms.

Fact 7-In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.

Fact 8-The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone.

Fact 9-There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.

Fact 10-The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto, where over 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.