Background+Information

__ BACKGROUND INFORMATION __ Year:1933-1945

Location: Europe and most concentration camps in Poland.
 * Start:1933
 * Hitler built up his Nazi military and started attacking his neghboring countries.
 * Nazi were anti-semitic(did not like jews).
 * Nazi took the Jewish kids 15 years and younger to what they called "daycares". 16 year old Jewish girls took care and watched over the kids until they were old even to go to a concentration camp.
 * The parents and adults went straight to concentration camps.
 * There was a "resistance", a couple teenage girls were apart of it and they took Jewish children to safty and took care of them.
 * The parents of those Jewish children were taken to concentration camps and most of them never came back
 * Over 1000 children were saved because of the "resistance".
 * Jewish people over 15 years of age had to show an identification card to the nazi militarty.
 * Jews tried to go in hiding or escape from concentration camps by using other peoples identity, so that means they had to use someones identification card.
 * Gas chambers were use to execute Jews, it was a sealed chamber which poisonous gas was entered inside.
 * End:1945

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