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What happened in the concentration camps?
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The holocaust effected many, and many suffered because of it.
Roughly 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust Around 6 million were Jews. Below is a count of every Jew killed during the holocaust in each country. And how the holocaust began and finished.
Six million Jews and five million non-Jews
(Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Political Enemies, Jehovah's Witnesses, sympathetic citizens, etc). This figure includes the camps as well as the mass graves in the country sides, killings on the street, organized shootings (such as Babi Yar, etc.) and basically, any person singled out for their religion, political beliefs, or their sexual persuasion.
January 30, 1933 to december 28 1945 12 years.
The beginning of the Holocaust.
- Official date - January 30, 1933 -
The lead up and the ending
After the 1932 elections it became clear to the Nazi leaders that they would never be able to secure a majority of the votes and that they would have to rely on other means to gain power. Leading up to the 1933 elections, the Nazis began intensifying acts of violence to wreak havoc among the opposition. At the same time, with cooperation from local authorities, they set up camps as concentration centers within Germany. One of the first was Dachau, which opened in March 1933. These early camps were meant to hold, torture, or kill only political prisoners, such as Communists and Social Democrats. Eventually, the Nazis imprisoned Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, critical journalists, and other undesirables.
These early prisons?usually basements and storehouses?were eventually consolidated into full-blown, centrally run camps outside of the cities and somewhat removed from the public eye. By 1942, six large extermination camps, located in Nazi-occupied Poland, had been established.After 1939, with the beginning of the Second World War, the concentration camps increasingly became places where the non-political enemies of the Nazis, including Jews and POWs, were either killed or forced to act as slave laborers, and kept undernourished and tortured.
The holocaust ended in specific places when the Allies liberated the camps in 1944-1945. The official end to the holocaust did not come until the end of WWII and all German troops surrendered.
December 28 1945
? We heard a loud voice repeating the same words in English and in German: "Hello, hello. You are free. We are British soldiers and have come to liberate you." These words still resound in my ears. ?
---Hadassah Rosensaft, inmate of Bergen-Belsen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
Below are figures for the number of Jews murdered in each country that came under German domination.
Africa
526
Albania
200
Austria
65,000
Belgium
24,387
Czechoslovakia
277,000
Denmark
77
Estonia
4,000
France
83,000
Germany
160,000
Greece
71,301
Hungary
305,000
Italy
8,000
Latvia
85,000
Lithuania
135,000
Luxembourg
700
Netherlands
106,000
Norway
728
Poland
3,001,000
Romania
364,632
Soviet Union
1,500,000
Yugoslavia
67,122
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They put the people in gas chambers and killed them the burned their bodies.
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they put them in cars and sent them off to the camps were they were put them in gas chambers were they burned alive
mass killing of the jewish people
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Mass killing of MANY people. Jews were not the only ones killed. 11 million died, 6 million of them were Jews. The most of any group, by far, but not, by any means the only group killed.