n and the Jewish employees of Aryanised firms lost their jobs. All synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows of Jewish shops were smashed and thousands of Jews were arrested. The German army occupied Poland when world war two began in 1939 and the polish Jews were forced to move into over crowded ghettos surrounded by walls and barbed wire. Germany’s plan to murder all the Jews in Europe was known as the “final solution’. The final solution began when Germany invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist republics. Jews were made to wear arm bands marked with a yellow star. More and More Jews over Europe were made to leave their homes and were taken to ghettos in Poland. The next measure was already underway to exterminate Jews and this was known as the death camp. Death camps also known as concentration camps were especially designed for systematic murder. Millions of Jews were imprisoned in death camps. Jews were transported to these camps by train, packed into carriages that were so cramped there was no room to move at all. Often the sick and elderly died on the way. The camps were equipped with gassing facilities and some had factories in which the prisoners worked to death. Those unable to work m, the aged , the sick, many women and most children were gassed. The prisoners lived in conditions which were horrible and many died of starvation and disease and doctors performed cruel experiments on some prisoners. The first death concentration camp was in Dachau which was opened on march 22nd 1933. The camp’s inmates were communists, criminals, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses and beggars. There were six camps opened, these were in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Madjdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. The largest and most infamous of the camps was Aushwitz which was opened in June 1940 in Poland about fifty kilometeres from Krakow. In June 1941 it became an extermination centre with four huge gas chambers ...
