Holocaust Persuasive Essay

The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was persecution and murder of six million Jews. The act was done by Nazis known as Hitler's followers. It was an event of depression many lives were taken and Jews had to go through a harsh time. Since the germans believed they were superior to the Jews and blamed the Jews for all their failures they decided to try to eliminate their whole kind. I will explain some of the issues and experiences the Jews faced. I will also talk about how certain things happened, how the Holocaust could of been stopped and lessons learned from the event. Jews were treated unfairly and faced hardships that changed their lives.

During the time of the Holocaust the people who were affected

greatly was the Jewish population. On November 1938, windows in Jewish shops were smashed while 100 were killed and thousands were arrested. The Jews were separated from others and sent to live in ghettos, Jews were taken from the ghettos and sent to death camps. They already felt different from others not just the separation but even the yellow star of David that was on their clothes. When people seen someone wearing the yellow star of David they automatically know they are a Jew. Some of the Jews were lucky and survived and were able to tell their experience. Jews got selected for slave labor and worked without rest. Many switched from camp to camp and catched sicknesses like pneumonia. Marie Knox had said “the only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.”

Could the Holocaust have been avoided ?

Yes there are many things that could've been done that would've stopped the horrible process, of murdering and torturing the Jews. For instance if the Spanish republic had been helped and won the civil war, Nazis Germany could of been much more cautious. Also If Britain didn't decide to continue after the fall of France there wouldn't have been mass killings because they started to happen when Britain chose to fight on. Another thing is if the U.S and other countries had accepted the Jews to emigrate in their country before world war 1 many lives could of been saved, and the Holocaust could of had a chance of not occurring. Hitler himself could have been stopped early before he gained a lot of power and control over europe. If the United States had not been isolationist and took action with Europe, Hitler could of had been

terminated.

Not only was the Holocaust just a horrid event , it was an event that taught us lessons today that can help prevent situations that happened in the Holocaust. Numerous lessons can be learned , one of them is that every person can make atrocity go away if they try instead of letting the situation happen, and thinking it will go away by itself. The holocaust also teaches that when a government is given power of life and death over citizens with no one to protect them, a genocide is most likely to occur. It's sort of saying how governments need independent judicial branches. Tolerance is also a big lesson from the Holocaust, the Nazis refuses to accept the Jews for the way the are, which caused them to even judge others because they didn't have tolerance. The responsibility to educate can also be learned, if people are educated and taught about the Holocaust, it will have a much lower chance of repeating.

At the time of the Holocaust Nazi policies had a big impact on the Jewish communities. They were very eager to take over states and deal with their enemies . the Nazis started harassing the Jews in march 1933 and probably earlier. They attacked the Jews on the street, sometimes so much that they die. Jews were also forced to clean the dirty streets and do things they had no interest in. Once the Nazis began to make prejudice laws against the jews, their lives started to change. Even though the Nazis rose with hitler, they made it more possible for the torturing of Jews to begin and continue.

The Holocausted had too many deaths and diseases statistics. Two million Jews were killed by the Nazi death squad while 3.3 million Jews were killed in bass chambers. The Jews were trapped in an airtight room which they breathed in poison. When the jews were sent to the ghettos 500,000 died of hunger disease and weakness. They weren't cared for and were treated like they were worthless. A huge number of Jews were also killed at the camps, 1,500,000 jews were murders at Auschwitz, 360,000 at chelmno and other more deaths at different camps. Overall the Jewish population was in great danger, and had many statistics of death and disease.

The Holocaust started to begin when Hitler rose to power. In the early 1930s Germany was in a great depression, people were out of work and the economy was not doing so well. They had a weak government and needed someone to guide them in success. That's when Hitler came in he was a great speaker and attracted many of the Germans. People believed in him and trusted him to overcome the depression they were in. The Nazis rose with Hitler and soon became known. Hitler started to get trust from people and become very powerful. He soon became prejudice towards the Jews and people listened to him which caused the tragic experience for them. Like the Nazi's hitler had a big impact on the Holocaust.

In the time of the Holocaust a young girl named Anne Frank was a Jewish victim of the Holocaust.

She is one of the most discussed victim and had a touching story. Anne was a german-jewish that was forced to go into hiding during the tragic event. Her family and four other people went in hiding in an annex over two years in Amsterdam. Anne and the people she was living with were soon betrayed by someone. And the Nazis took them to concentration camps. They faced troubles and even separation from each other. In the end, Anne's whole family was gone even herself except for her father. Which then her father read her diary she wrote during the time she was alive and he ended up publishing it. Today Anne's diary is a book, and one of the most powerful memoirs of the

Holocaust.

Another shocking event that happened was the death marches the Jews who were imprisoned, and others were forced to walk miles in bad conditions to go where the SS wanted them to go. The SS guards killed prisoners who could no longer walk. They were guards to concentration camps, like Nazis they tortured the Jews. Hundreds of prisoners were shot while others died of hunger and exhaustion. The reason for all the movement, was because the SS didn't want prisoners to be found by their enemies and tell their experiences. It was a horrible experience for the Jews, they were forced to get up and walk long miles. Having no food and they walked in horrible conditions.

The Holocaust had lasted for 12 years until 1945 when the allies started to take over the Germans campss. The Americans and the other allies soon began to take Hitler from power slowly. They had soon taken over Auschwitz and taken hitler from power. Which led to a growing survival rate of Jews. When allied forces invaded Germany, Hitler knew his time was over. On April of 1945 before he was going to get captured, he committed suicide. Nazis also followed his steps and killed themselves, afraid of being captured. That's when the torturing stopped and the Holocaust was finally over.

Throughout the Holocaust many life changing events happened to the Jews. A lot of events happened that teaches us lessons about tolerance and equality. Millions of Jews were murdered and luckily there were survivors. They shares their experience of pain and hope. The Holocaust is a very important event to remember and educate people about. It would be tragic to repeat the horrid event. There were many criminals during the Holocaust, I think the main ones were Hitler and his followers. They can be known as the Nazi's or the SS guards. Lives were lost while the economy was slowly turning on the Jews, hard times soon became their daily activity.