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Evian Conference
In the summer of 1938, delegates from thirty-two countries met at the French resort of Evian. Roosevelt chose not to send a high-level official, such as the secretary of state, to Evian; instead, Myron C. Taylor, a businessman and close friend of Roosevelt's, represented the US at the conference. During the nine-day meeting, delegate after delegate rose to express sympathy for the refugees. But most countries, including the United States and Britain, offered excuses for not letting in more refug -
Dachau
Dachau concentration camp was the first camp built on German soil. The camp was opened by Heinrich Himmler. There were 32,000 documented deaths by the camp. The entrance to the camp is an iron gate with the motto "Work Sets You Free." - "Arbeit Macht Frei."
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Kindertransport
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kindertransport refers to the rescue of 10,000 predominantly-Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The mission – led by the United Kingdom government – operated from December 1, 1938 till May 14, 1940. -
"Final Solution"
The origin for the "final solution" which was the NAZI plan to eliminate all Jewish people in a large genocide attempt. The Germans plan is not actually known but we can conclude that the 'Final Soloution' is a result of a decade of Nazi empowerment. -
Nazi Ghettos Started
During World War II, ghettos were set up across Nazi-occupied Europe by the Nazi regime in order to confine and segregate Jews, and sometimes Gypsies, into a small parts of towns or cities. The Nazis began to designate areas of larger Polish cities and towns as exclusively Jewish areas and systematically moved Polish Jews from their homes into these areas. -
First Death March
The Death Marches where when the nazi's moved prisoners or people of concentration camps to different locations. They were often marched to train stations and then transported with no food or water on the trains to their location where they were kicked off and marched again to the new campsite. Most people were very tiered and ill while they were walking those who stopped were often shot. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler authorized an invasion of the Soviet Union on 18 December 1940 for a start date of 15 May 1941. the invasion on Moscow began on the 2nd october.
it was the largest military operation in history, involving more than 3 million Axis troops and 3,500 tanks. -
Einstazgruppen
• The german army invaded the soviet territory with small units of SS and Police, around 3000 men
• Their task to kill Jews on the spot
• As well as Jews communists, gypsies, political leaders and the intelligentsia were also targets
• German for 'task forces'
• 1.2million Jews were killed
• They were buried in mass graves
• The residents of these cities could see what was happening but did nothing
• After the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), the Red Army began to r -
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
The Auschwitz II - Birkenau are a collection of 40 army camps and sub camps. In the first year it was a prison for 125 thousand prisoners. In its second phase and second year its main purpose was the extermination of the Jews. In its final phase It was back to being a prison with 9/10th of the people being Jews. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting between 15 Nazi & German officials in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss the "Final Solution" regarding the Jewish. The conference was called by Reinhard Heydrich the head of Reich Security Main Office who controlled the Gestapo and the SD. According to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org, the conference was held to to help "inform and secure support" from government officials. -
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard was the operation of exterminating millions of Jews in Europe. The operation was named after Hitler's Chief of the Security Police, Reinhard Heydrich. The operation had the extermination camps, run by the SS. The purpose of the camp was to mass murder around 2 million Jews that lived in the general government. The camps were not concentration camps. The only purpose they had was to exterminate. 700-1000 Jews worked for the camps for a brief period of time, but then they wou -
Treblinka
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in German occupied Poland, during WWII. During its operable time, approximately 850,000 men, women and children were murdered including more than 800,000 Jews. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The German authorities deported and murdered up to 300,000 Jews in Warsaw. In response to this the Jews created a self-defence unit known as the Jewish Combat Organisation which had around 200 members. The Revisionist Party created another armed self-defence unit known as the Jewish Military Unit. They decided to work together and had a combined number of around 750 people. They uprised against the Germans and fought them on January 18th. Most of the fighters died but it gave the other Jews a ch