P. 6 Holocaust Quick Research by Brianne Wagner https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs Search Google, ProQuest, or Britannica for facts and information about the Holocaust. Find 5-8 facts from at least 3 different sources. Include citations for each fact. en-us 2022-01-06 16:15:17 UTC 2025-11-17 11:59:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Example bwagner40 https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979027918 1. Fact or Quote (citation)
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5. Fact or Quote (citation)]]> 2022-01-06 16:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979027918 raegan england https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979649715 1. When Hitler came to power legally on January 30, 1933, as the head of a coalition government, his first objective was to consolidate power and to eliminate political opposition.https://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Holocaust/40821
2.Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination. Nazi anti-Semitism was rooted in religious anti-Semitism and enhanced by political anti-Semitism.
3.As discrimination against Jews increased, German law required a legal definition of a Jew and an Aryan.
4.By the late 1930s there was a desperate search for countries of refuge. Those who could obtain visas and qualify under stringent quotas emigrated to the United States. 

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  • The term “Holocaust” became popular after the airing on NBC of a four-part fictional miniseries on the subject called “Holocaust” in 1978. The cast included Meryl Streep. Click play on the video above to watch the trailer for the miniseries https://hmh.org/about/25-facts-about-holocaust/
  • Jewish people were not the only victims of the Nazis. Other victims of Nazi mass murder included Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people, and Soviet prisoners of war.
    • 3. there was over 6 million death of jews       and at leasr 5 million prisioners.

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust

    4. the Nazis did not invent antisemitism. Antisemitism is an old and widespread prejudice that has taken many forms throughout history. In Europe, it dates back to ancient times. In the Middle Ages (500–1400), prejudices against Jews were primarily based in early Christian belief and thought, particularly the myth that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus.
    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

    5. The Nazis believed that Jewish people were a separate race, but they were wrong. Being Jewish means following a religion and a culture, not being part of a race.

    https://hmh.org/about/25-facts-about-holocaust/
    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979651246     Gabriel Judson 2019401 https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979653805 1. Germans blamed the Jews for their loss of World War 1 (Introduction to the Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Museum)
    2. "On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany began World War II (1939–1945) by attacking Poland."(Introduction to the Holocaust, Holocaust Memorial Museum)
    3. " there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world" (The Holocaust, History.com editors)
    4. The label for "pure Germans" is "Aryan" (The Holocaust, History.com editors)
    5. "In Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”; 1925–27), Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination." (Holocaust, Michael Berenbaum)]]>     2022-01-06 23:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979653805     Sydney H https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654023 1. "Starting in 1939, the Nazi government ordered all Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing. The tactic isolated Jews from the rest of society and made it easier for them to be identified and targeted"“11 Facts About the Holocaust.” DoSomething.org, https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust.
    2. "The Nazis constructed over 44,000 incarceration sites, which included detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers. They functioned independent of any judicial review, and torture, starvation, and mass murder were frequent(7).
    3. Many Holocaust survivors, including some of those who came to Houston after WWII, were never held in concentration camps. They survived in hiding, in ghettos, by fleeing into the Soviet Union, or by passing as non-Jews"(HMH).
    4. "Kristallnacht, or the “Night of the Broken Glass,” was a period of two days in November 1938 during which Nazi paramilitaries burned approximately 250 synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, schools and homes"(Santora 4).
    5."Once captured and shipped to the camps, Jewish prisoners could be selected for work, if healthy, but many were sent straight to gas chambers"(Whipps 5).

     
    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654023     deserie tunac https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654107 1. "While Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, homosexuals, and others also were singled out for obliteration, the Nazis’ various policies for exterminating the Jews were the most deliberate and calculated, and the primary goal of the Nazi regime was the extermination of all the Jews in Europe." Holocaust. ProQuest, Ann Arbor, 2021. eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/1959815764?accountid=193131.

    2. "Approximately six million Jews and some 5 million others, targeted for racial, political, ideological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust. More than one million of those who perished were children." History.com Editors. “The Holocaust.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 14 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust.

    3. "there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine." History.com Editors. “The Holocaust.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 14 Oct. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust.

    4. "Following Germany’s invasion of Poland, Jews were forced to live in confined areas called ghettos, sometimes sealed off from the rest of the city by fences or barbed wire. There they faced shortages of food and medicine and the constant fear of being deported to concentration camps.[" “11 Facts About the Holocaust.” DoSomething.org, https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust.

    5. "The Nazis constructed over 44,000 incarceration sites, which included detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers. They functioned independent of any judicial review, and torture, starvation, and mass murder were frequent." “11 Facts About the Holocaust.” DoSomething.org, https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust.

    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654107     greisy chaidez https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654173 1. ¨In the course of the Second World War, the Nazis murdered nearly six million European Jews¨ (Frank 1).
    2. ¨The cause is the fact that the Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews and that they were able to do so. But their lust for murder didn't come out of nowhere. The antisemitic Nazi ideology must be considered in the broader context of the age-old hostility towards Jews, modern racism, and nationalism¨ (Frank 3).
    3. ¨The Holocaust was an evolving process that took place throughout Europe between 1933 and 1945¨ (Holocaust Encyclopedia 1).
    4. They killed 2 out of 3 Jews that were using deadly living conditions, brutal mistreating, and shooting (Holocaust Encyclopedia 3).
    5. Later on, Jews discrimination increased so they were not allowed to do go to school and they reduced many of their rights and subjects (Berenbaum 4).]]>     2022-01-06 23:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654173     Pedro fernandez https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654239 1. Many Holocaust survivors, including some of those who came to Houston after WWII were never held in concentration camps. They survived in hiding, in ghettos, by fleeing into the Soviet Union or by passing as non Jews. 
    (holocaust museum Houston)

    2.Of the about 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust, 1.5 million were children.
    (holocaust museum Houston)

    3. While a majority of the killings occurred from 1941-1945, Jews were persecuted by the Nazi regime starting in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
    (Do something. org)

    4. Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans.
    (Do something. org)
    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654239     Brandon G. https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654719 1.) Adolf Hitler's persecution of the Jewish population as soon as the Nazis started to take over Germany in 1933 (Compton's by Britannica). 
    2.) On Nov. 9th-10th, 1938, the Night of The Broken Glass, Jewish businesses were looted and destroyed, nearly every synagogue in Germany was either destroyed or damaged and numerous Jewish people were either killed, injured or thrown into a concentration camp after being stripped of all their possessions (Compton's by Britannica). 
    3.) Discrimination against the Jewish culture has gone as far back as 586 BC under the Babylonian Captivity by the Ancient Egyptians and before the Exodus (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia). 
    4.) Despite being criticized for centuries, the Jewish people still celebrate Hanukkah and Purim to show that the Jewish won't stop fighting against antisemitism (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia).  
    5.) After the Holocaust, Holocaust victims suffered from PTSD, had recurring nightmares and survivor's guilt and the stress caused by post-war relocation camps and post-war immigration (David Zeiger). ]]>     2022-01-06 23:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654719     Easton Solomon https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654907 1. "The killing of millions of people by Nazi Germany during World War II is referred to as the Holocaust, though the term is most commonly used to describe the fate of Europe’s Jews. While Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, homosexuals, and others also were singled out for obliteration, the Nazis’ various policies for exterminating the Jews were the most deliberate and calculated, and the primary goal of the Nazi regime was the extermination of all the Jews in Europe." (Holocaust, Ann Arbor)
    2. "This purpose was nearly fulfilled—out of an estimated 9.5 million Jews living in Europe before the war, about 6 million were killed." (Holocaust, Ann Arbor)
    3."Their leader, Adolf Hitler, believed that Germans were superior people and that some other peoples were inferior people or subhuman." (The Holocaust, 
    4."In 1933 boycotts of Jewish shops in Germany were organized. This did not last very long, but new laws soon meant that Jews could not use parks and swimming pools, and were banned from working for the government." (The Holocaust)
    5."When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Jewish people made up less than 1% of the German population." (25 Facts About the Holocaust, Holocaust Museum Houston)

    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979654907     isak barraza https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655054 1.¨The systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II¨https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust
    2.The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”II¨https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust
    3.holocaust comes from an Greek and it means ¨burnt offering. a large group of deaths.
    https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/what-is-the-holocaust/    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655054     Manuel Juarez https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655119 1. "The Holocaust was the murder of millions of Jews" ( Khan academy)

    2. Nazis made life hard for jews because they would cause problems when they seen one. (Anne Frank House)

    3. Jews were not allowed to work many jobs and parks because of their religion. (Anne Frank House)

    4. "After World War II started in 1939, the Nazis ordered Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily recognized and targeted." ( ThoughtCo.) 

    5. Jews were controlled by Nazis, the Nazis would make them live in smaller areas, the Jews would sometimes have to live with many families in one house, the Jews would also be separated from each other in big cities. (ThoughtCo.)]]>     2022-01-06 23:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655119     Lacy zavala https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655512 1. There were many different types of camps not just concentration camps there were labor camps, transit camps, and extermination camps ( Thought co, Rosenburg 1).
    2. A total of 17 million people were killed during the holocaust and a staggering 6 million were Jews (Thought co, Rosenburg 1).
    3."The Nazi party systematically planned the mass slaughter of millions of people in order to construct solid cultural and societal norms through the enactment of the Nuremberg laws" ( The Borgen project, Santora 1).
    4. On November 9,1938 anti Jewish violence erupted and over two days rioters burned and damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and ransacked more than 7,500 businesses. This was named Kristallnacht or the night of broken glass (Britannica , Berenbaum 2) .
    5. "When the war ended, Allied armies found between seven and nine million displaced persons living outside their own countries, some had collaborated with the Nazis and feared retaliation" ( Britannica Berenbaum 2).
    6. The Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow star of David Badge in order to distinguish between Jewish people and other European people (Borgen project Santora 1).
    7. "In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German- soviet nonaggression act, which incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris" (History , 1).]]>     2022-01-06 23:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655512     Holocaust facts 2035695 https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655843 1. Murdered six million jews

    The starting date was 1941

    end date was 1945

    website Wikipedia


    2. "The term “Holocaust” became popular after the airing on NBC of a four-part fictional miniseries on the subject called “Holocaust” in 1978." "
     
    3. "Jewish people were not the only victims of the Nazis. Other victims of Nazi mass murder included Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people, and Soviet prisoners of war."
     
    website https://hmh.org/about/25-facts-about-holocaust/


    4. "Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued."

    5. "The Nazis constructed over 44,000 incarceration sites, which included detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers."

    https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust














     
    ]]>     2022-01-06 23:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979655843     Alberto G https://padlet.com/bwagner40/rlgxi6iz03m9l8fs/wish/1979657770 1. "Religious anti-Semitism could be resolved by conversion, political anti-Semitism by expulsion. Ultimately, the logic of Nazi racial anti-Semitism led to annihilation."(Britannica pg2)
    2."The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps—the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires."(https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust)
    3. "Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever."(Berger, Joseph. New York Times. Jul 4, 2016)
    4."In homes and businesses, people stopped what they were doing to pay homage to the victims of the Nazi genocide, in which a third of world Jewry was annihilated."(Heller, Aron. Hartford Courant. Apr 8, 2013.)
    5."Since its establishment in 1953, Yad Vashem, an Israeli governmental authority, has collected 400,000 photographs, recorded roughly 110,000 victims' video testimonies and amassed 138 million pages of documents on the Nazis' genocide of Jews in Europe. It was after the Holocaust that the United Nations approved in 1947 what many Jews had sought for decades: a permanent homeland in what is now modern Israel"(Mandell, Meredith. USA TODAY. Apr 20, 2012)

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    1. Jewish people were not the only victims of the Nazis. Other victims of Nazi mass murder included Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, Poles, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people, and Soviet prisoners of war.
     https://hmh.org/about/25-facts-about-holocaust/
        2.The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.
    https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
        3. While a majority of the killings occurred from 1941-1945, Jews were persecuted by the Nazi regime starting in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-holocaust
    4.
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