These were the trains that transported prisoners to the concentration camps in Europe during WW2. they were severely overcrowded freight cars and many died as a result of the trip to the camps in them. It is hard to believe that after the documentation available on these conditions people are still being treated this way today.
Mainly rail transport. They were transported to the death camps in enclosed cattle wagons or "box cars"
Death marches were the marching of inmates from one concentration camp to another.
Disease and starvation.
6 million Jewish people roughly and roughly 4 million other people were killed in the Holocaust. The term "Holocaust" means 'Death by fire', which was a method of killing some of the Death Camps used against its prisoners.
In the context of the Holocaust an Aufseherin was a female concentration or death camp guard.
Railway transports run by German Nazis and their collaborators to forcibly deport interned Jews and other victims of the holocaust to the Nazi death camps.
Trains
Mainly rail transport. They were transported to the death camps in enclosed cattle wagons or "box cars"
trains, hundreds in one little carriage
The Holocaust trains were railway transports run by German Nazis and their collaborators to forcibly deport interned Jews and other victims of the Holocaust to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
A common word from the holocaust that starts with 'D' is "Death'' or "Die". Jews died in the holocaust because of the Nazis. The holocaust was World War 2.
Transport was that of trains which could handle a large volume of people .
The largest of the death camps during the holocaust was Auschwitz, in Poland.
Conditions in the trains were appalling. The victims were packed tightly into cattle trucks and the trains travelled very slowly. (For example, the Greek Jews sent to Auschwitz had to spend 120 hours in the trains). There were no lavatories and people had to sleep standing up. Many older or frail people died in those trains.
the death toll
they got sent to the camps with trains or by foot escorted by many soldiers
Trains!