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Holocaust
Jews had no choice but to live in a certain part of the city called "Ghettos". In the bigger Ghettos, 1,000 people a day were taken by train to concentration camps or death camps -
Beginning of the Holocaust.
The holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, The Holocaust went of for 12 years ending in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis -
Taken Away.
The Nazis took all the valuable things away from victims. They took away their wedding rings, watches, precious stones, and their eyeglasses. -
18 Days
A lot of people who were deported to labor and death camps got there by cattle wagons. The cattle wagon shave no bathrooms, food, water, or ventilation. Sometimes the cattle wagons were too cramped for more people to fit in them so the extra people would have to wait at a switching yard, often standing with not much room, but they had to stand there for many days. The longest transport took 18 days. Everyone was dead by the time the trip was over. -
Millions Died
More than 1.5 million children died during the holocaust. -
Yellow Star
Nazis wanted all of the Jews to wear a yellow star of David on their clothing once World War II began, just so that the Nazis could find them easier. -
Period
The Rosenstrasse Protest started on February 27, 1943 due to German Police taking away a lot of Jewish men from their wives -
Location
The location of the Rosenstrasse Protest was in Berlin, Germany. -
Rose Street
The Rosenstrsse Protest was a collective street protest on "Rose Street". This demonstration was initiated and sustained by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested. -
What started the Protest
A huge group of about 200 non-Jewish Germans demonstrated outside of the local Jewish Community -
Arrested!
German Police had incarcerated around 2,000 Jewish men who were married to non-Jewish woman. -
The Gathering
Wives and mothers got together and gathered around the Rosenstrasse Center. They stood there day after day chanting "Give us our husbands back". -
"Murder"
The guards started to set machine guns up and told the crowd "If you don't go now, we'll shoot". The women moved back slightly and started yelling "Murder, Murder, Murder, Murder..." -
The protest grew!
The protest grew so large that other people were joining in, even if their husbands weren't arrested. Men even started to join in with all the other women. -
The men were released!
Officers finally released the "mixed-marriage" men on the first of March. 25 men were sent to Auschwitz. The men that were left were considered "exempt". After their release from Rosenstrasse, Gestapo officials returned and deported the to nearby labor camps. The plan was to ship them on to extermination camps once the Germans had won the war. -
During the Protest
During the Protest, officers and trucks came to the women and threatened lethal force with machine guns, but the women refused to leave the area. -
Finally Ended!
On March 6, 1943, the woman finally got all their husbands back and the protest ended. -
Continued
The release and process went on 6 days after everyone already left after the street. -
Finally Ended.
The Holocaust ended in 1944 and 1945, when the Allies began began to liberate the concentration camps. Another big event that ended The Holocaust was the suicide death of Adolf Hitler. After his death many Nazis retreated and went into hiding for fear of the Allies. -
Ending of the War
By the end of the war, 98% of surviving German Jews were those in intermarriages. But between 160,000 and 180,000 German Jews were killed; in total, up to 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
