It is very important to keep memory alive and teach the youth about the terrible things that have happened throughout our history. As we know, the Holocaust was a terrible genocide, the most famous and most cruel in history. With that being said, we decided to come together and put some facts about this terrible event.
First of all, what really was The Holocaust?
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe was just over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their supporters killed and nearly wiped out every European Jew as part of the "Final Solution," which was the the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.
If people did not match prescribed social norms then they would be killed.
Although Jews, were the people that the Nazis priority danger to they weren’t the only victims. Other victims include: Gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, Socialists , and trade unionists . If people did not match prescribed social norms, then they would be killed. Disabled people were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program. Other wise known as Aktion T4, the Euthanasia Program was set to eliminate all of the incurably ill people.
The categories of patients were:
—those suffering from schizophrenia, epilepsy, dementia, encephalitis, and other chronic psychiatric or neurological disorders
—those not of German or "related" blood
—the criminally insane or those committed on criminal grounds—those who had been confined to the institution in question for more than five years.