Chelmno
The Nazis
The night of the broken glass.
Extermination camp
Genocide
Majdanek
40.000
Six millions
The Holocaust
A place where Jews were sent to be killed.
Concentration camps A place where "enemies of the state" were sent to be imprisoned and forced to work.
The first extermination camp created in Poland in 1941.
Hitler was the leader of Germany's Nazi Party since 1921. In 1934 he declared himself the Fuhrer or "supreme leader of Germany"
The number of Jewish people killed by the Nazis.
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.
The number of concentration camps created by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
The members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party established in 1919.
November 9th 1938, a night of terrible violence against Jewish people.
Gas chamber. A room that can be filled with poisonous gas to kill lots of people.
The mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941 - 45.
The first camp to be freed in the summer of 1944.
