By Bobby Gagnon 12/16/2011
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“I realized that most people were not aware
of any other Holocaust victims except Jews.”
Of the 11 million people killed during the
Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens.
Three million were Polish Jews and another
three million were Polish Christians and
Catholics.
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Hundreds of thousands of other victims such
as gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, disabled and
mentally ill were killed.
The disabled and mentally ill were sent
directly to be executed.
Non-Jewish victims were killed like they were
a Jew.
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The rise of Nazi government aimed to make
Germany “clean of Jews”.
By 1938, about 150,000 German Jews had
already fled the country.
After Germany seized Austria in March 1938,
an additional 185,000 Jews were brought
under Nazi rule. Many Jews were unable to
find countries willing to take them in.
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Born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg.
In 1937, Mengele joined the Nazi Party.
Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous
for his inhumane medical experimentation
upon prisoners at Auschwitz .
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In 1935, Mengele earned a Ph.D. in physical
anthropology.
In the concentration camps, he was
responsible for the selection of those fit to
work and those destined for gassing.
Mengele also carried out human experiments
on camp inmates.
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The German Nazis destroyed Jewish houses
and businesses.
In two days, over 250 synagogues were
burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were
trashed and looted.
Dozens of Jewish people were killed, and
Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and
homes were looted while police and firemen
stood by.
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In Kiev, the Nazis murdered approximately
100,000 people in a ravine named Babi Yar.
The killing began with a large group on
September 29-30, 1941, but continued for
months.
The Soviet army liberated Kiev on
November 1943.
Between July and September 1942, the German
officials deported or murdered around 300,000
Jews.
 The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered
more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto
during the deportation operations.
 The German authorities granted only 35,000
Jews permission to remain in the ghetto, while
more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto
in hiding.
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Kindertransport was a rescue operation to
save the children from the holocaust.
Kindertransport saved 10,000 children from
the Nazi death camps.
The children were placed in British foster
homes, hostels, and farms. Most of the
rescued children survived the war.
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