- The Holocaust started in 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when the Allied Powers defeated the Nazi Party.
- Two-thirds of the Jewish people living in Europe at the time of WW2 were killed by the Nazis.
- Jewish people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Roma were attacked by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
- Young children were of particular interest to the Nazis, as they believed that they would parent an new generation of Jewish people if they survived.
- Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas chambers