Facts about the conditions of the Holocaust

1. Facts about The Holocaust
True facts

2. Introductory facts about the Holocaust
• The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30,
1933, when Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to
May 8, 1945 when the war in Europe ended.
• The Jews who died were not casualties of the War .
They were the victims of Germany's genocide plan.
• This was a plan Hitler called “the Final Solution’’.

3. FACT:
6 million Jewish people died.
3 million Russians died.
2 million Polish Christians died.
1.5 million Gypsies died.
250,000 mentally/physically
disabled people died.
Plus thousands and thousands of
Jehovah's Witness’, homosexuals
and enemies of the Nazi party died.

4. FACT:
Throughout the Holocaust 1.1 million
children were killed.
That is the same as the number of
people as there are living in
Birmingham.

5. FACT:
90% of the Jewish population in Poland
were killed in the holocaust.
2/3 of all Jews in Europe were killed. Most
were killed in concentration (death)
camps.

6. FACT:
The slogan in Auschwitz was “Work will
make you free”.
Ironically between 1-2.5 million people
were killed there.

7. FACT:
The average weight of a woman in
Auschwitz was 22-29 kilograms.
That is the equivalent of a medium sized
dog.

8. FACT:
1 day in the Auschwitz camp they killed
24,000 people. That is the same number of
people in a football stadium.

9. FACT:
People would sleep in bunk beds. Normally
people would have to sleep 3 or more people
to 1 bunk.

10. FACT:
The punishment room would hold three
people for four days. The room was only
90cm x 90cm. That is the same size as a
babies cot.