Displaying: 51 73 of 73 matches for “map of holocaust”
-
51. Major ghettos in occupied Europe
ghettos were enclosed districts of a city in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to live under ... miserable conditions. The Germans regarded the establishment of Jewish ghettos as a provisional measure to
-
52. European rail system, 1939
The European rail network played a crucial role in the implementation of the ... scale required the coordination of numerous German government ministries, including the Reich Security
-
53. Anne Frank: Amsterdam and deportation
Frank’s father) left Frankfurt, Germany, for Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The rest of the
-
54. Mauthausen environs, April 1945
map of the Mauthausen concentration camp environs in April 1945.
-
55. Mauthausen concentration camp, April 1945
map of the Mauthausen concentration camp in April 1945.
-
56. Einsatzgruppen
During the Holocaust, members of mobile killing units known as
-
57. The Warsaw Ghetto
Before World War II, Warsaw was a center of Jewish life and
-
58. Auschwitz I camp, 1944
Storage of Confiscated Belongings 10. Gravel Pit: Execution Site 11. Camp Orchestra Site
-
59. Einsatzgruppen massacre sites in Ukraine and surrounding areas
murder of Jews in these regions would not have been possible. This map shows some of the ... locations of mass killing sites in eastern Europe at the height of German expansion. The area on the map ... In the summer of 1941, following Germany's attack on the Soviet ... Union, the Germans began to perpetrate mass shootings of Jewish men, women, and children in territory
-
60. Major Nazi camps in Greater Germany, 1944
The Nazi camp system expanded rapidly after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, as ... critical after German defeat in the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. This led to the increased use of ... hundreds of subcamps were established in or near industrial plants. Subcamps were generally smaller camps ... administered by the main camps, which supplied them with the required number of prisoners. Camps such as
-
61. Killing Centers in German-occupied Poland, 1942
Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz camp complex ... Sobibor, and Treblinka) were established in the General Government (an administrative unit of occupied ... overwhelming majority of the victims of the killing centers were Jews. An estimated 2.7 million Jews were ... killed in these five killing centers as part of the Final Solution. Other
-
62. Major camps for Jewish displaced persons, 1945-1946
in the DP camps until they could leave Europe. At the end of 1946 the number of Jewish DPs was ... estimated at 250,000, of whom 185,000 were in Germany, 45,000 in Austria, and 20,000 in Italy. Most of the ... Jewish DPs were refugees from Poland, many of whom had fled the Germans into the interior of the Soviet
-
63. Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe (enlargement)
Einsatzgruppen were German special duty units, composed primarily of SS and police personnel ... assigned to kill Jews as part of the Nazi program to kill the Jews of Europe. During the ... invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the mobile killing squads followed the German army as it ... more than a million Jews and tens of thousands of Soviet political officials
-
64. Ghettos in occupied Poland, 1939-1941
Germany occupied western Poland in fall 1939. Much of this territory was annexed to the German ... Germans set up the Generalgouvernement (General Government), where most of the early ghettos were ... established. Ghettos were enclosed districts of a city in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to ... percent of the city's population--were eventually confined in about 2.4 percent of the city's total area.
-
65. Major European war crimes trials, 1943-1947
Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany. The IMT consisted of judges from Great Britain, France, the ... Soviet Union, and the United States. The overwhelming majority of post 1945 war ... concentration camp guards and commandants, police officers, members of the ... zones of occupied Germany and Austria; and in Italy. Others were tried by the courts of those countries
-
66. European Jewish population distribution, ca. 1933
the total Jewish population of Europe at about 9.5 million in 1933. This ... number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population, which was estimated at 15 ... the Soviet Union. Before the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, Europe had a ... dynamic and highly developed Jewish culture. In little more than a decade, most of Europe would be
-
67. Jewish emigration from Germany, 1933-1940
Between 1933 and 1939, Jews in Germany were subjected to arrest, economic boycott, the loss of ... -organized Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") pogrom. Jews reacted to Nazi persecution in a number of ... institutions and social organizations. However, in the face of increasing repression and physical violence
-
68. Major death marches and evacuations, 1944-1945
In January 1945, the Third Reich stood on the verge of military ... defeat. As Allied forces approached Nazi camps, the SS organized death marches of concentration camp ... inmates, in part to keep large numbers of concentration camp prisoners from falling into Allied hands. The ... It referred to forced marches of concentration camp prisoners over long distances under heavy guard
-
69. German conquests in Europe, 1939-1942
In World War II, Germany sought to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns in Europe ... Germany quickly overran much of Europe and was victorious for more than two years. Germany defeated and ... turned the tide of battle and ultimately defeated Germany in May 1945.
-
70. Major deportations to killing centers, 1942-1944
elite guard of the Nazi state) and representatives of German government ministries estimated that the ... "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to kill the Jews of Europe, would involve 11 million European Jews
-
71. Jewish armed resistance in ghettos and camps, 1941-1944
Nazi-occupied eastern Europe. Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos ... the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join with partisans ... camps, and even in the killing centers of Treblinka, Sobibor, and
-
72. Escape routes from German-occupied Europe, 1942
Throughout most of German-occupied Europe, the Germans sought to round up and deport Jews to ... escaping from German-controlled Europe. Some escape routes out of occupied Europe led to belligerent states
-
73. Jewish partisan activity in eastern Europe, 1942-1944
resistance against the Germans. Individual Jews or groups of Jews engaged in planned or spontaneous ... as 20,000 Jews fought the Germans in the forests of eastern Europe.