The Holocaust - Jessica Poldrugo

- In 1939, following the outbreak of WWII, Jews were subject to many wartime ordinances such as a curfew, restriction from entering certain areas in German cities, reduced food rations, and most famous: they must be identified by wearing the Star of David.

- Jews were subjected to living in designated areas called ghettos (except for German Jews, who lived in "Jewish Houses"). Their property was confiscated to "support the war effort."

- Mass deportation to ghettos and killing centers is associated with the "Final Solution." Jews came from all Reich conquered nations: Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria etc.

- Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

- Ways of extermination at the camps include gas chambers, crematoria, and sometimes Nazi soldiers would shoot them.

- Overall, about six million Jews died as a result of the holocaust.

- The final months of the war, the survivors in the death camps were forced into the "Death March." This was a result of the fear that the Allies would liberate camp inmates.