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Prisoners transported to these extermination camps were told to undress to take a shower. Rather than a shower, the prisoners were herded into gas chambers and killed. (At Chelmno, the prisoners were herded into gas vans instead of gas chambers.

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Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau,Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination camp built. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz.

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Life within Nazi concentration camps was horrible. Prisoners were forced to do hard physical labor and yet given tiny rations. Prisoners slept three or more people per crowded wooden bunk (no mattress or pillow). Torture within the concentration camps was common and deaths were frequent.

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After Kristallnacht in 1938, the persecution of Jews became more organized. This led to the exponential increase in the number of Jews sent to concentration camps.

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To get them to cooperate, the Nazis told the Jews they were being transported to another place for labor.

When the Nazis decided to kill the remaining Jews in a ghetto, they would "liquidate" a ghetto by boarding the last Jews in the ghetto on trains.

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Jews were forced out of their homes and moved into smaller apartments, often shared with other families.The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, with its highest population reaching 445,000 in March 1941.

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After World War II started in 1939, the Nazis began ordering Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so that Jews could be easily recognized and targeted.

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during the night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazis incited a pogrom against Jews in Austria and Germany in what has been termed, "Kristallnacht" ("Night of Broken Glass"). This night of violence included the pillaging and burning of synagogues

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Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs (i.e. government jobs), made Jews register their property, and prevented Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than Jewish patients.

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The Nuremberg laws, issued on September 15, 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The Nuremberg Laws included a law that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. The Nuremberg Laws set the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation

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It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.

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addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.

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Jews couldn't stay out late or couldn't go to school and if they were caught out of the house around 10 they would be sent to a concentration camps and they will be killed. the places the Jews would live were the ghettos

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The Holocaust unofficially began on January 30, 1933, and ended on May 8, 1945. The Holocaust'sbeginning is often linked to when Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. As a result of the Holocaust, 6 million Jews would die at the hands of Nazi oppressors by the war's end.

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This was the remains of the Nazis' horrible crime, to imprison people in campsbecause of their “otherness” or in order to use them for forced labour. A concentration camp was not the same as an extermination camp – campsconstructed with the specific purpose of mass murdering Jews and other victim groups.

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the concentration camps were called this because they were"concentrating" the enemy into a restricted area.