Prisoners of The Camps Most people in the camps were of the Jewish ethnicity. Prisoners were required to wear color-coded triangles on their jackets so that the guards and officers of the camps could easily identify each person's ethnicity. Common criminals wore green. Roma (Gypsies) and others the Germans considered "asocial" or "shiftless" wore black triangles. Jehovah's Witnesses wore purple and homosexuals pink. 

“Enemies of the State” Jews were the main target of the Holocaust, but they were not the only group persecuted. Jehovah’s witnesses went sent to concentration camps for not “hailing Hitler”. Nazis also targeted homosexual . June 24th, 1933: Jehovah’s witnesses were banned in Prussia June 28th, 1935: Nazis toughen laws against homosexuality. August 18th, 1944: Communist party leader executed in Buchenwald

Forced labor during the holocaust OCTOBER 26, 1939 FORCED LABOR INSTITUTED FOR JEWS IN POLAND Prisoners were forced into extremely physically demanding labor Prisoners in all the concentration camps were literally worked to death. Women and children ages 12-60 were also worked to death Jews generally work 10 to 12 hour days under harsh conditions MAY 21, 1942 I.G. FARBEN PLANT OPENS NEAR AUSCHWITZ synthetic-rubber and petroleum plant opens at Monowice, near Auschwitz Life expectancy for the forced Jewish workers at the giant plant is extremely poor By 1945, about 25,000 forced laborers have died in the Monowitz plant. July 11, 1942 JEWS IN SALONIKA, GREECE, HELD FOR FORCED LABOR Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 45 living in Salonika to report to Liberty Square where they are to receive forced-labor assignments 9,000 Jewish men report. About 2,000 are assigned to forced-labor projects for the German army. The remainder are detained until the Jewish communities of Salonika and Athens pay a huge ransom to the German occupation authorities for their release

Death Marches A death march is a method of execution defined as “death by labor” where prisoners are marched until they die of dehydration. Examples of death marches in the holocaust. JANUARY 18, 1945 DEATH MARCHES FROM THE AUSCHWITZ CAMP SYSTEM JANUARY 25, 1945 THE EVACUATION AND DEATH MARCH FROM STUTTHOF CONCENTRATION CAMP APRIL 7, 1945 DEATH MARCH FROM BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP APRIL 26, 1945 DEATH MARCH FROM DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP

Liberation of the Camps The Soviets were the first ones to liberate a camp, on July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland. Allied troops, physicians, and relief workers tried to provide nourishment for the surviving prisoners, but many of them were too weak to digest food and could not be saved. Many prisoners that were freed often died soon later. They either died from malnutrition or a disease that they caught at the camp. The survivors were so malnourished that when they got food their body didn’t have the strength to digest it, so they died. In the end only a little bit of the prisoners that were freed actually survived because of malnutrition and all of the previous hardships they had suffered.

The Survivors For the survivors returning to life as it was before the Holocaust was impossible. After the war many Anti-Jewish riots broke out in polish cities. Jews realized that there was no future for them in Poland anymore. May 14, 1948, one of the leading voices for a Jewish homeland, David Ben-Gurion, announced the formation of the State of Israel. August 3rd, 1945:Harrison issues report on Jews in Germany. July 11th, 1947: Refugee ship sails for Palestine despite British restrictions. November 29th, 1947: United Nations votes for partition of Palestine.

NUREMBERG TRIALS The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials set up by the allies to judge the surviving members of Nazi Germany, these trials lasted from 1945 to 1949. Military Leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers were those who were tried. The Nuremberg Trials were set up to fairly judge each war criminal, because the allies were afraid of being deemed hypocritical if they just executed them outright.

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