2. • The Nazi party, under Adolf Hitler, expanded the camps
as designated areas where they could hold their
prisoners to initially work and be out of the society.
• The Germans would have some of them work in
factories, to support the war.
• They would also do medical tests on them by infecting
them with diseases and by testing experimental
medications.
• However, many were killed by different methods because
the Nazis felt that they were weak.
3. • Concentration Camps
• Camps that were developed only to hold and have people work
• Death Camps
• Camps that were specifically set up to kill people
4. • Because of the concentration camps, millions of people
were killed
• Some people say that 9 million Jews lived in Europe
before the Holocaust, and approximately two-thirds of
them were killed during this time.
5. The following figures from Lucy Dawidowicz show the annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe by (pre-war)
country:[261]
Country
Estimated
Pre-War
Jewish
population
Estimated
killed
Percent
killed
Poland
3,300,000
3,000,000
90
Baltic countries
253,000
228,000
90
Germany and Austria
240,000
210,000
90
Bohemia and Moravia
90,000
80,000
89
Slovakia
90,000
75,000
83
Greece
70,000
54,000
77
Netherlands
140,000
105,000
75
Hungary
650,000
450,000
70
Byelorussian SSR
375,000
245,000
65
Ukrainian SSR
1,500,000
900,000
60
Belgium
65,000
40,000
60
Yugoslavia
43,000
26,000
60
Romania
600,000
300,000
50
Norway
2,173
890
41
France
350,000
90,000
26
Bulgaria
64,000
14,000
22
Italy
40,000
8,000
20
Luxembourg
5,000
1,000
20
Russian SFSR
975,000
107,000
11
Denmark
8,000
52
<1
Total
8,861,800
5,933,900
67
6. • During the Holocaust, there were about 23 main
concentration camps producing about 900 sub camps.
• Some of the concentration camps were Auschwitz,
Buchenwald, Dachau, and Treblinka.
• Today, researchers have found two-thousand
concentration camps across Europe.
9. • After the fall of Hitler’s Nazi party, the Allied Powers
started to take a lead in WWII. The bombing of Hiroshima
ended WWII. Then, the Allied Powers boldly stepped into
concentration camps. They realized what Germany was
doing and put an end to it by letting any soul who was not
dead escape the camps.
10. • Today, some Germans boldly say that the Jewish people
were lying about the camps and that they were not real.
However, Jewish and other researchers have multiple
strong pieces of evidence that support the fact that they
did exist. For example, Auschwitz has a wall of shoes
and shirts around their camp from the people who
perished on the soil. This is evidence that the camps
existed and killed people.
