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Page 6 Frequently asked questions about the Holocaust Source: Yad VShem Holocaust Memorial Museum i UCV?/^oV*" ip illr\ UnKmiir iirArrl fiw Wrrrnnf iinnrl " Tf 10 110/vl fn rlocAriKo tV?o w uiiuaii 10 uic iicuicvv vyuiu iui ^icat wmu. it 10 uocu \aj ucovilut i/ii^ attempted annihilation of the Jews of Europe. Imagine your home, occupation, education and religion being taken away from you at once. Throughout Nazi-occupied countries, this is how the process of annihilation began. Then, imagine moving with thousands of other people to a "ghetto" where in some cases, like in Warsaw, the average number of people to one room was 12. Then, figure the 800-calorie-a-day diet and forced labor for many. Finally, imagine being rounded up, hundreds at a time, into trains that weren't fit for cattle, let alone people. The total dehumanization and precise calculations by the Germans created the ideal environment for destruction of a group of people without much resistance. In the largest ghetto in Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto, an armed uprising erupted on the eve of Passover 1943. For 42 days, the Jewish fighters tried to die with dignity on a field of battle rather than in a silent chamber of gas at Treblinka. Few survived. Revolts also .occurred at the Treblinka death camp, Auschwitz and in several other ghettos and camps. There is no precise number available to describe the total killed. The figure commonly used is the six million quoted by Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS official. Most research confirms that the official number of-victims was between five and six million. *, v. I Visas | Entries/Entrees Departures/Sorties j Entries/Entri Considering a Carei Pirn a f~Vfrifiratf? in Information Terhnoloov IIT^I frori w ZD J \ / Rushing Center for Advanced Technology. 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It was known that the Allies had command of the skies by that time and that reconnaissance aircraft photographed people exiting trains onto platforms at Birkenau that would lead them to their death. The official reason the Allied forces gave to Jewish groups during the war and immediately after it was that no amount of bombs could slow the murder operation down, as they would divert forces from decisive battles and endanger Allied airmen.The only way to rescue the Jews, they said, was bv "winniner the war." There are other historical events that are similar to the Holocaust, but in itself, the Holocaust is unique to history. Mass murder based on religious, ethnic or social groups has occurred throughout history. The Holocaust can be considered unique for two main reasons. First, Nazi leadership held that ridding the world of the Jewish presence would be beneficial to the German people and all mankind. 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