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
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.
Many groups had great power and influence around the world during the Holocaust. How this influence was used or not used helped shape experiences, often horrific, for many European Jews. In Hungary, toward the end of the Holocaust not only did the international institutions become silent bystanders, but their very own neighbors turned their back on their fellow citizens knowing what atrocities awaited their arrival at Auschwitz. The brutality started close to home when fellow Hungarians, in a combined effort with the city government, railroad officials, and law-enforcement agencies coordinated a swift transport of 400,000 Jews to their almost certain death. “In March 1944, the Germans occupied Hungary and in April, they forced the Jews into ghettos.
The Holocaust was a big event in our history and it is extremely important to learn what happened to prevent it from occurring again. The Jews were striped from society for no reason except they had different beliefs then the Nazis.They lost their basic rights and were treated like animals. Dehumanization was the easiest way to get rid of the Jews. That was made possible by the camps robbing them of their names, clothes, and personal
At the start of Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror, no one would have been able to foresee what eventually led to the genocide of approximately six million Jews. However, steps can be traced to see how the Holocaust occurred. One of those steps would be the implementation of the ghetto system in Poland. This system allowed for Jews to be placed in overcrowded areas while Nazi officials figured out what to do with them permanently. The ghettos started out as a temporary solution that eventually became a dehumanizing method that allowed mass relocation into overcrowded areas where starvation and privation thrived. Also, Nazi officials allowed for corrupt Jewish governments that created an atmosphere of mistrust within its walls. Together, this allowed
Murders inflicted upon the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, that some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of the Jewish prisoners as well as the officers during the early 1940’s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking to an abnormal twisted headache. In the books Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that the Jewish prisoners as well as the police officers behaviors and qualities changed.
In the Holocaust, the Nazis persecuted and murdered over 6 million Jews during a four and a half year period. By the 1930s the Nazis rose in power and all the Jews became victims. One of the ways the Nazis persecuted the Jews, was putting them into tight confined places called ghettos were they suffered for many years.
The word Holocaust comes from the Greek language, and is a word that was used to identify a terrifying event that took place in our history, A time we will never forget. During this time period people were burnt and cast into fire. This word is almost a synonym to “death”. A very shocking moment in people’s lives is when they were children and they live during the Holocaust. Children in the holocaust were beaten, tortured and killed in either a concentration camp or death camp. If they did survive they would have died of hard labor, starvation or diseases that were spread in camps. Even though the time of the Holocaust happened in the past, however everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight.
For some, it seems that the Holocaust in another lifetime, but for others it will be something they will never forget. Holocaust was a time for fighting. The Jewish would fight for the right to live as they were killed solely for being Jewish. The Holocaust began in 1939 and would continue through 1945. It was introduced by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, although he did not act alone. His mission would be to “exterminate” all minorities, but most abundantly, the Jews. Based on information given by About.com, it is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
There are many factors which lead to the Holocaust, however anti-Semitism was the greatest cause of the conflict. Anti-Semitism is the common name for anti Jewish sentiments. During Hitler was in power, anti-Semitism was used by the Nazis too carry out the Endlosung, which means “final solution to the Jewish Question” (“The Roots of the Holocaust”). However, anti-Semitism was not something that was created by Germany. Through centuries, Jews were a persecuted people. Jews have faced heavy discrimination throughout the Middle Ages, 1800s and mid early 1900s.
Prejudice and the Holocaust Prejudice was the main factor that led to the holocaust. For some, resisting these forms of oppression was survival. Considering the dehumanizing the Nazis had forced upon the Jews, people took whatever courage and strength they had to get through this period of time. I believe luck also had a part to play in survival.
The Holocaust was an event that killed many and affected all. The people were viciously murdered, beaten, and starved. They were moved to ghettos, then to concentration camps and finally liberated. The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors. We should forever remember the suffering and brutality of the
Soon after Germany separated from Austria in March 1938, the Nazi soldiers arrested and imprisoned Jews in concentration camps all over Germany. Only eight months after annexation, the violent anti-jew Kristallnacht , also known as Night of the Broken Glass, pogroms took place. The Nazi soldiers arrested masses of male adult Jews and held them captive in camps for short periods of time. A death camp is a concentration camp designed with the intention of mass murder, using strategies such as gas chambers. Six death concentration camps exis...
The holocaust was a horrific period of time where unbelievable criminal acts were carried out against the Jews, Gypsies, and other racial gatherings. These defenseless individuals were sent from unsanitary ghettos to death camps, one being Auschwitz. The Auschwitz death camp comprised of three camps, all in which are placed in Poland. Numerous forms of extermination came about overtime to speed up the killing process. Life at the death camps was cut short for those who weren’t fit to work; such as the elderly, women, the mentally disabled, and young children. The others were put work while being starved to death. Experiments were held on dwarfs, twins, and other misfits were carried out by Josef Mengele. These inhuman acts against the Jews were all held in secret from society by the Nazis until liberation day.
After the war survivors were put in Displaced Person camps. The Holocaust will go down as one of the most brutal genocides ever.
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