Holocaust Day

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is International Remembrance Day: 2024 is the 79th Anniversary of the Liberation of the German Concentration and Death Camps by the Allies and the end of the Holocaust.

Between March 1933 and May 1945 the Germans ran around 42,500 Concentration, Labor, POW and Death Camps and Ghettos throughout occupied Europe. Between 15-20 Million Men, Women and Children were imprisoned and/or died at these sites.

That number includes:

8 Death Camps (in German-Occupied Poland: Auschwitz, Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets in German-Occupied-Belarus) and Sajmiste in German-Occupied Serbia)

980 Concentration Camps

30,000 Slave Labor Camps

1,150 Jewish Ghettos

500 Brothels filled with Sex Slaves

8 Disabled Killing Centers (Am Spiegelgrund Clinic in Austria, Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in Germany, Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre in Germany, Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre in Germany, Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany,  Hartheim Euthanasia Centre in Germany, Soldau Concentration Camp in German-Occupied Poland and Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centrein Germany)

1,000 POW Camps

 

Targeted Groups Murdered By Nazi Germany:     1933-1945

Jews:   6 Million Men, Women and Children.

Soviet Prisoners of War: 3.3 Million Soldiers (including 50,000 Jewish Soldiers.)

Non-Jewish Polish Civilians: 3 Million Men, Women and Children.

Serb Civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 600,000 Men, Women and Children.

People with Disabilities: 270,000 Men, Women and Children (doesn’t include the 375,000 Disabled who were Forcibly Sterilized.)

Roma and Sinti (Gypsies): 500,000 Men, Women and Children.

Jehovah's Witnesses:  5,000 Men, Women and Children.

Homosexuals:  9,000 Men in Concentration Camps (Doesn’t include the 50,000 Men held in Regular Prisons.)