I did my topic on the Holocaust

-Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889
-He overthrew the German government and became chancellor in 1933 to 1945
-German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party

- A quick extermination of the Jews
- Auschwitz could house more the 100,000 men and women and could provide for the gassing and incineration of 12,000 prisoners a day
- The gas chambers could accommodate 2,000 prisoners at one time.

-For prisoners, meal times were the most important event of each day
-Their morning ‘meal’ – imitation coffee or herbal ‘tea’
-For lunch prisoners may have been given watery soup. If they were lucky, they might find a piece of turnip or potato peel
-In the evening prisoners may have been given a small piece of black bread; they may also have received a tiny piece of sausage

-Variety of jobs, from administration tasks to heavy manual labour
-Most prisoners worked outside in one of the many factories, construction projects, farms or coal mines, owned by German companies

-The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned)
- historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar

-A concentration camp is a place where people are detained or confined without trial
-Prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and without any rights
- The first concentration camps in Germany were set up as detention centers to stop any opposition to the Nazis by so called ‘enemies of the state’