Historical Context

1. The Holocaust begin after the Germans lost in WWII and they blamed their defeat on the Jews. Hitler came into power and he started his reign on the Jewish people.
2. The definition of the Holocaust is the mass murder of Jews and other ethinicity groups. Jews were forced  out their homes and sent to concentration camps.
3. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party, he blamed the Jews for their loss of World WarII. Hitler believed that only true germans had the right to live.
4. Nazi soldiers would execute the Jews by the hundreds. They seperated the jews by women and men and the young men were sent to go work. 
5.  Hitler created Ghettos for Jews to live in. When Hitler created the Ghettos it was built to break them physically and mentally.   
6. When Japan attacked us in Pearle Harbor thats how we got involved in World WarII. During the war they killed or wounded 3,500 people and sank 18 ships.
7. The Nazis banned the Jews from serving in the army. Jews werent allowed to teach Germans or from being a accountant or a dentist.
8. Hitler banned the Jews froom owning their owwn buisness. They also ordered Jews over the age of 15 to get a identity card  to be shown to any police officer.
9. Nazis arrested 17,000 Jews living of Polish nationality living in Germany. Jewish students are expelled fron all non-Jewish German schools.
10. Nazis forced Jews to give up all gold and silver items. Polish Jews over the age of ten had to wear yellow stars.
11. Hitler choose the town of Auschwitz to build a new concentration camp. The lodz ghetto kepted 230,000 Jews locked in and sealed off from the rest of the world.
12. 74,000 Jews including chilldren were sent to Auschwitz. They burned the bodies that were killed in Auschwitz.