The Holocaust

The Holocaust

8th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min

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Learning Objective

I can describe the key events and impact of the Holocaust.

  • 1

    From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis imprisoned millions of people in various sites, many of which were called camps.

  • 2

    Besides concentration camps, the Nazis also established forced-labor camps, transit camps, and killing centers.

  • 3

    The five killing centers, created to murder European Jews, were Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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