The Holocaust was event that occurred where over six millions Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler. About 1.5 million of those victims were children. Children who didn’t do anything wrong, they were just like us. What the children and families went through in the Holocaust should never be forgotten. The conditions the children went through during the Holocaust were worse than the adults.
Children were not even given a chance in the concentration camps. The Germans thought the younger they were, the more useless. They would send them directly to what was called the “killing centers.” The disabled were the first target to the Nazis and were called “useless eaters” in the ghettos. They were taken from their parents and had medical experiments performed on them. Children would get tourchered more often and die sooner than the adults in the camps. They would send most of the children straight to the gas chambers and just kill them. If the children were a little bit older, they had a better chance of surviving because they would be used for forced labor. Some really brave children were able to sneak out of the ghettos and bring back
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Can you imagine being separated from you mom or dad? Well thats exactly happened to most of the children. Imagine having to be torched without you mom or dad. If they were not separated from their parents they had to watch their parents suffer. Parents had to watch their children suffer. Most children's parents were either killed or deported so they were left as orphans. After the Holocaust some children survived and they had no idea where their parents were or if they were even alive. Woman who were pregnant in the camps were forced to have abortions or the baby would be killed shortly after birth. Small children, babies, and their mothers would be sent straight to the gas chambers. Some women would secretly have their baby in the
Then those who were too young or too old to work were sent to the showers. Once the showers were tightly packed, the Nazi’s would turn on the water and drop in canisters of chemicals that would react with the water and release a deadly gas. Within minutes, everyone in the shower would be dead. The bodies would be hauled out and burned. Those who were not selected to die didn’t fair much better.
Dehumanization was a big part of these camps. The Nazis would kick innocent Jewish families and send them to concentration or death camps. The main way they dehumanized these Jewish people is when they take all their possessions. In Night they go around taking all there gold and silver, make them leave their small bags of clothing on the train, and finally give them crappy clothing. All this reduces their emotions; they go from owing all these possessions to not having a cent to their name. If I was in that situation I would just be in shock with such a huge change in such a short amount of time. The next way they dehumanized the Jewish people were they stopped using names and gave them all numbers. For example in Night Eliezer’s number was A-7713. Not only were all their possessions taken, but also their names. Your name can be something that separates you from another person. Now they are being kept by their number, almost as if that’s all they are, a number. If I was in their place I would question my importance, why am I here, am I just a number waiting to be replaced? The third way they were dehumanized was that on their “death march” they were forced to run nonstop all day with no food or water. If you stopped or slowed down, you were killed with no regards for your life. The prisoners were treated like cattle. They were being yelled at to run, run faster and such. They were not treated as equal humans. If the officers were tired, they got replaced. Dehumanization affected all the victims of the Holocaust in some sort of way from them losing all their possessions, their name, or being treated unfairly/ like animals.
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.
Holocaust Hero: A One of a Kind Man. What is a hero? A hero can be classified as a number of things. A hero can be a person who, in the opinions of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.
A large portion of the people who were eliminated were normally dispatched to one of the twelve concentration camps. Families would be separated, then divided into two groups the healthy and strong men and occasionally
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They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells us what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding with a friend of her mother in a basement (“Peabody”).... ... middle of paper ...
The Holocaust is a dark event that started during World War 2, with Germans, specifically Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were to blame for a spectrum of issues. Many also dispute the optimal age to teach the Holocaust. Why should 8th Graders be taught the Holocaust? Are they mature enough? The audience and material are critical when teaching about the Holocaust, because the audience cannot be too young, and the material needs to be appropriate, uncontroversial, and impartial.
A few people survived the concentration camps. It was never promised they will see their family again. Most families were split up when they were taken away to the concentration camps. Some camps were split up by gender. They didn’t care if you were married or if you had kids. If you had kids under 12 years old you weren’t going to see them again because kids were automatically sent to death chambers.
The Holocaust ended 70 years ago, it involved over 11 million deaths. Hitler blamed all Jews for everything wrong with Germany. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis. They were taken to concentration camps where they were treated like animals. Before the concentration camps, their human rights were taken, and also making them wear gold stars to identify the Jews better and faster. The Jews were taken from camp to camp until they finally arrived to the deadliest camp of them all, Auschwitz. The Holocaust also lasted 12 years from January of 1933 to May 8 of 1945. It all started when Adolf Hitler came into power. The Holocaust should never be forgotten because first of all, there were too many deaths. Second, because they were innocent people who
The Holocaust was when Germany killed huge numbers of Jewish people. They would bring them to their death camps and starve them to death or work them so hard that they collapse under their own weight. I feel that we should remember the Holocaust because so many Jewish people died and that we need to learn from this experience and improve from it so we would not have another Holocaust and for the people who had to go through the death camps during the Holocaust.
Through selection at the extermination camps, the Nazis forced children to be separated from their relatives which destroyed the basic unit of society, the family. Because children were taken to different barracks or camps, they had to fend for themselves. In the book A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal, the author describes the relief he felt when reunited with his mother after the War.
The Holocaust was an extremely horrific period of history. Millions were killed and lost everything, including money, family, and dignity. However, it has taught many lessons. We can study it today to make sure nothing like it ever happens again.
“While imprisoned, Hitler wrote, “My Struggle,” where he foretold the war that would lead to the death of many Jews.” (The Holocaust) The Jews were used as scapegoats by the Germans. They were treated terribly and lived in very poor conditions. Many of the Jewish children were put into homes, therefore having better chances of hiding.
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