What are 10 facts about the Holocaust

1. the holocaust started in 1993

2. Kristallnacht occurred on November 9th and 10th, 1938. Nazis pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

3. 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children). 6 million of those victims were Jewish. Other groups targeted by the Nazis were Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Roma.

4. Two-thirds of Jewish people living in Europe at the time of World War II were killed by Nazis.

5. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945.

6. In Israel, the Knesset made Holocaust Remembrance Day (also known as Yom Hashoah) a national holiday in 1959.

7. Yom Hashoah has been observed with speakers, poems prayers, songs, candlelight ceremonies and more tokens of remembrance.

8. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis.

9. Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans.

10. Once World War II began, the Nazis ordered all Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily targeted

1. The Holocaust began in 1933

2. The word Holocaust comes from Holokauston

3. 11 million people were killed

4. 6 million Jews were killed

5. Nazi's killed 2/3 of Jews living in Europe

6. 1.1 million children were killed

7. Jews were forced to move out of their homes

8. The Holocaust was caused by Hitler

9. He wanted to wipe out certain religions

10. He believed they controlled the economy because they owned businesses