Factual statements about the Holocaust
WHILE MOST PEOPLE AIDED THE NAZIS or simply looked the other way, there were some courageous individuals in Germany and throughout Europe who risked their lives to save the Jews.
MOST INFANTS AND CHILDREN WERE KILLED immediately upon arrival at the camps. The Nazis murdered as many as one and a half million Jewish children.
THE NAZIS
ALSO TARGETED THE ROMANI PEOPLE,
commonly called Gypsies, as "racially undesirable." Hundreds of
thousands of them were imprisoned or
murdered.
AFTER THE
GERMAN ARMY INVADED DENMARK,
the Danish people mobilized to ferry 7,800 Jews to safety in
neutral Sweden. At the end of the War, 99% of Denmark's Jews were
still alive.
THE NAZIS
CONSIDERED THE SLAVIC PEOPLE
to be "sub human" -- the elite were to be exterminated and the
rest were to be used for slave labor. Millions died under German
occupation outside of the boundaries of the Holocaust. A
distinction always must be made between the Nazi Holocaust and the
other genocidal campaigns of World War II. (For additional
magnification of this distinction,
please visit this entry on Poland).
THERE WERE
MANY ACTS OF JEWISH RESISTANCE
against the Nazis. With little or no resources, there rebelled in
the ghettos, fought as partisans in the forests, and revolted as
prisoners in the camps.
JEWS IN THE
WARSAW GHETTO REVOLTED
against the Nazis on April 19,1943. A handful of Jews heroically
held off the German army for several weeks. Finally, the Nazis
destroyed the ghetto.
GERMAN
HOMOSEXUALS WERE EARLY VICTIMS
of Nazi persecution. Many were imprisoned. Some were castrated or
used in medical experiments. Thousands died in concentration
camps.
IN POLAND,
ALONE, THE GERMAN ARMY KILLED
more than six million Polish citizens -- Jews and Christians --
including 2,600 Catholic priests.
BY LATE
1942, THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ALLIES
were aware of the death camps, but did nothing to destroy
them.
Source: New England Holocaust Memorial
