Hatred During The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a time of hatred, a time of prejudice, and a time of sorrow. There were eight years of pain, starting from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. Hatred was particularly targeted at the Jewish people of Europe. One can not imagine, being taken from their family, potentially never meeting again. They were being watched by Germans and stuck in a segregated, separated, fenced place. This place was called the ghetto. From 1939 to 1942, the Jews were locked in the ghetto, and unsanitary place where many died from starvation or diseases which were caught in this horrific place. But what happened after that? Where were the survivors of the ghetto taken? If these victims knew where they were going, one could be positive they would rather …show more content…

It's been estimated that over 300,000 Jews were deported to the Treblinka II extermination camp. Each ghetto had a Jewish council, that were forced to organize the deportations. Obviously, this was very hard for the council men to do to their own kind and themselves; most went on with their duty, but others refused. One account of serious refusal would be from the council man, Adam Czerniakow, of one of the most known ghettos', Warsaw. He refused to pass the order of deportations and in result, swallowed a cyanide capsule to commit suicide. This can show you how difficult this time was for these people, that they rather take their own lives than let the Germans take them. Nothing stopped the Nazis, though. They rounded up their sufferers, violently, using force at each block. For an illustration, they banged on doors, pulled everyone out of their homes and made the Jews run to Umschlagplatz, where they would be boarded on the train to their death, or close to it. Additionally, if Jews weren't willing to walk or walking fast enough, they were shot down. To make them walk faster, German personnel would shout out announcements, promising them food, as many didn't have any and were …show more content…

The Germans forced them to board the train. Mobbed and congested, Jews road the train, starving and dehydrated. They would ride to an extermination camp, where they would be stripped of their clothes and belongings, and shaved of all body hair to prevent the terrible smell of burnt hair. Some Jews, specifically the Jews of the Lodz ghetto were persuaded to board a van that released gas through an exhaust pipe. This van would drive to a forrest to dispose of the bodies. This lead to the murder of 300,000 Jews with only three survivors. The Nazis finally figured that people would find out about the bodies and killing if they continued this method, with lead to them resorting to gas chambers. They installed permanent gas chambers in the camps and sent the Jews straight down, into the gas chambers. The Jews would quickly die within a few minutes due to suffocation, from lack of oxygen. The bodies then would be retrieved by Jewish slaves and burned to hide the evidence. It’s estimated that 1.7 million Jews died in these gas chambers

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