6.5 million Jews were sent to concentration camps during the holocaust. Jews were put through a lot during the holocaust, from the time they got picked up to the time they were brutally killed. The holocaust has to be the most horrific and cruel true story known to man. The Nazis had no heart or sympathy for the Jews. The Nazis thought and felt they were better than the Jews and that they were a disgrace to mother earth. Germans put the Jews through Hell and back. The stages of the holocaust was that the Jews would be picked up, then sent to the ghettos, then lastly to the concentration camp to be tortured and/or killed
With Hitler thinking he could rule mankind he not only put Jews through what they went through but he also included other races he was also disgusted with homosexuals and hated them so he always put homosexuals through the stages of the Pick up, to the ghettos and to the concentration camps. Hitler and other high class men had many followers because Hitler was so passionate about what he said to the public and he was a strong smart man with a plan so Germans and his army felt uplifted of his plans and what he said. Hitler was so persuasive he changed the public’s opinion on the Jews and other people so many people joined the Nazis and followed Hitler in his reign of terror.
The Jews were usually picked up from their home and put on a train and the Nazis or messengers would not tell the Jews where they going. The Nazis would most likely tell them they’re being sent somewhere because they needed to leave the town. Jews would travel in packed trains so that they would head off to the ghettos in a train. Usually the Nazis would leave the ashes of the Jews in a small colored container one the train tracks so the Jews ...
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...ore because of how they had seen their family and friends die. So many Jews felt this was the end of their world and sadly, it was.(Josef Katz, pg 161)
6.5 million Jews were sent to concentration camps during the holocaust. The holocaust is a sickening story that still brings a chill down people’s spine today; it is without a doubt the coldest non-fiction story ever told. Germans hated the Jews and felt disgusted with them so that’s why the Nazis would end so many families’ lives with children and babies. 6.5 million People died and 1.5 of the dead where children. The Nazis lost WWII to Russia and U.S. who were called The Allies the reign of Hitler ended when he committed suicide in 1945 so the Germans decided to surrender. The war was over so The Allies went to all the concentration camps and freed the people who were still alive.
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The Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended, the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the Aryan ideal. The Holocaust was lead by a man named Adolf Hitler who was born in 1889, and died in 1945.
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One is considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself.
Jews way of living while in a concentration camp was a harsh time. They died of many different causes. For example: Starvation, Diseases, gas chamber, shot, burned to death, beat to death, or put to working hard labor. Some lived without the knowing of what was happening to their family members because they were at a different camp. For a fact, every jew lived in fear while they were locked up at a camp. They never knew when there time was to come. The more they showed fear the more harsh the Nazis
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
Only 7,000 emaciated survivors of a Nazi extermination process that killed an estimated six million Jews were found at Auschwitz” (Rice, Earle). Most of these deaths occurred towards the end of the war; however, there were still a lot of lives that had been miraculously spared. “According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners left in the camps in January 1945. It has been estimated that nearly half of the total number of concentration camp deaths between 1933 and 1945 occurred during the last year of the war” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in the world’s history.
As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these places, each person was separated from their families and given a number. In essence, these people were no longer people at all; they were machines. An estimation of six million deaths resulting from the Holocaust has been recorded and is mourned by descendants of these people every day. There are, however, some individuals who claim that this horrific event never took place.
The Holocaust was the horrible death of 6 million Jews that took place during World War II. Hitler and his army planned to terminated all jews that came to Auschwitz. Hitler was almost fortunate, him and his army killed two-thirds, or 6 million jews. Although the Holocaust was about Jews being killed, there were also people who risked everything to help rescue Jews. There was one person who was different from all other “Holocaust Heroes” and her name is Zofia Baniecka.
Jews were transferred into the boxcars from the ghettos, and some were never told their fate, others were given false hope by believing there would be better living conditions and plenty of food where they were going. Although the people were told that there was good fortune ahead, many of them were very uncertain. Many of the people were concerned
The Holocaust is a very emotional subject for people to talk about. With all of the terrible things that occurred you are bound to get sad and even disgusted by the acts of the Nazis. The Holocaust was a horrific event that occurred for many years. Over 6 million Jews have died in the torturing concentration camps. They were murdered by starvation, hard labor, and gassing. The Holocaust was a horrific event in our history, and by watching interviews of Holocaust survivors, reading novels like The Devil’s Arithmetic, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we can learn how the prisoners found their light in the darkness.
The delineation of human life is perceiving existence through resolute contrasts. The difference between day and night is defined by an absolute line of division. For the Jewish culture in the twentieth century, the dissimilarity between life and death is bisected by a definitive line - the Holocaust. Accounts of life during the genocide of the Jewish culture emerged from within the considerable array of Holocaust survivors, among of which are Elie Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge in the main concepts in each work; Wiesel and Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their survivals. Aside from the themes, various aspects, including perception, structure, organization, and flow of arguments in each work, also contrast from one another. Although both Night and The Sunflower are recollections of the persistence of life during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their existence during the atrocity in their corresponding works.
It was in December 1948, when it was approved unanimous the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at France which became the 260th resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations. What made the leaders of the 41 States create and sign this document in which the term Genocide was legally defined? This document serves as a permanent reminder of the actions made by the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust where more than five million of European Jews were killed. In summary I will explain what were the events that leaded the ordinary Germans kill more than six million Jews in less than five years. To achieve this goal, I will base my arguments on the Double Spiral Degeneration Model provided by Doctor Olson during the spring semester of the Comparative Genocide class.
During the Holocaust the Jewish people and other prisoners in the camps had to face many issues. The Holocaust started in 1933 and finally ended in 1945. During these 12 years all kinds of people in Europe and many other places had so many different problems to suffer through. These people were starved, attacked, and transported like they were animals.
The Holocaust was an astonishing unspeakable atrocity. Adolf Hitler drove a country of Germans who were endeavoring to free "mediocre races". Hitler had a "last arrangement" to deal with anyone who he saw as only average. "The designs incorporated into the Final Solution incorporated the extradition, abuse, and inevitable annihilation of European Jews". (Grobman) His technique was to murder any nuisances. He would utilize inhumane imprisonments and concentration camps. Inside the years 1941-1945 more than eleven million individuals were executed. Six million of the individuals who kicked the bucket were slaughtered essentially in light of the fact that they were Jewish. More than one million youngsters were additionally executed amid the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
There were many things that happened over the years of the Holocaust, but the most notable of those was the killing of so many people. But the Jewish people were not the only ones that were hunted. Many non-Jewish groups of people were persecuted and killed in the Holocaust. Some of these other groups were Gypsies, homosexuals, Soviet soldiers, Polish citizens, and the mentally and physically disabled and ill. After all this time, the death toll is in - roughly 11 million total. The toll, not including the Jewish people is over 5 million- 15,000 homosexuals, 200,000 mentally ill, 1.5 million non-Jewish Polish citizens, 3.5 million Russians, and so many others.