Survivors of the Holocaust

Holocaust Research Paper: The Survivors of the Holocaust

The Holocaust was the organized massacre of about 11 million people 6 million of them were Jews; different groups of people were murdered by an association called the Nazis. The Holocaust which is also known as Shoah was a time when Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It started in 1933 and ended in 1945 when the war ended. The mass murder of these people took place in all over Europe. The Nazis (National Socialist German Worker's Party) believed they were superior to all other races and religions. The Jews were the most targeted out of all the other ethnic and religious groups in Germany. Some of the other groups targeted by the Nazis were Gypsies, Poles, Russians, African-Americans and the disabled were also besieged. Imagine being horribly mistreated, beaten and battered for years, Imagine being in captivity for years and one day someone tells you you’re free. The feeling of freedom is exhilarating, overwhelming and sometimes even traumatic. My research essay is based on the experiences these people had to go through as survivors of the Holocaust.

About 6 million Jews were executed throughout the holocaust. Before the Nazis conquered Germany there were about 9.5 million Jews, which was about 1.7% of Europe. There were different Jewish cultures in Europe. At the end of the Holocaust only about 1/3 of the Jews survived, this left only about 3 million people. By 1950 1.5 million Jews lived in America, to escape the horror that Germany had become. Jehovah Witnesses’ were also eliminated about 30,000 of them were German. Only about 20,000 of them still practiced during the Holocaust. About 90% of them survived the Holocaust. Homosexuals also were targeted during this time...

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...sent to a concentration camp is unknown, it may because he was black and they didn’t think he would be Jewish or more likely because he had an American passport.

A survivor once said “ For me the Holocaust has not ended.” Being in the Holocaust was a very traumatic experience even for those who didn’t survive. Even though survivors’ children didn't experience Shoah, sometimes their traumatic because of what their parents had to go through.

Works Cited

• U. (n.d.). Survivors and Victims. — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved November 5, 2013, from http://www.ushmm.org/remember/the-holocaust-survivors-and-victims-resource-center/survivors-and-victims

• Starman, Hannah. "Generations Of Trauma: Victimhood And The Perpetuation Of Abuse In Holocaust Survivors." History & Anthropology 17.4 (2006): 327-338. History Reference Center. Web. 16 Nov. 2013.

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