Displaced Persons Camps
The Soviets made it possible for Jews to rebuild their lives and move on from the terrible memories they had during Concentration Camps.They made Displaced Persons Camps to put the Jews until they were ready and strong enough to go back home to start over.The Displaced Persons Camps, while not without their problems, did provide a place for Jews to gain back their lives after the Holocaust while the world decided how to assist them. The Soviets were the Jewish peoples savior to begin their new lives.
The Camps
The camps were a nirvana and a necessity for Holocaust survivors.
Displaced Persons camps were “rehabilitation centers.”(Holocaust Museum)
During their takeover, The soviets found remainings of some of the victims like “more than 800,000 womens outfits, hundreds of mens suits, and 14,000 pounds of human hair.”(The Holocaust Chronicle) Concentration camps were liberated in Northern Germany by the British Forces. Close to seven to Nine million jews were taken from their homes. (Texas Holocaust M.) During liberation few DPs died from “exhaustion, disease, and shock of eating food.”(Texas Holocaust M.) January 27,1945-1,500,000 were murdered, and 2,000,000 were liberated in Auschwitz..(The History Place) Over 200,000 were liberated at Buchenwald by American forces.(Holocaust Museum)
Bergen-Belsen was turned into a concentration camp 1943.(Jewish Virtual Library)
Most died of starvation overwork,and diseases.(Jewish Virtual Library) The Holocaust certainly left it’s mark on the world with it’s ruthless, inhuman tactics against the Jews and the Nazi opposition.
Nazis Start Invading
Millions of Jews were forced to leave their homes and split up from their family’s.
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...ill hated by people even after everything that happened all the horrible things they had to go through. The DP camps were a great place for all the unwanted people to go because they were accepted there. This situation can apply to many people, have you ever been in a situation so bad you couldn’t do nothing about it? Until one day someone decided that they need to stand up and do something about it. Thats how it was for the Jews they got split from family, all their belongings and dignity were stolen by germans just because of their race. My topic is very important part of the Holocaust because it showed that people cared to stop the terrible things the Germans were doing. The DP Camps need to be remembered because without the camps the Jews wouldn’t of gotten the help that they got.The DP Camps helped Jews to rebuild their lives and get their family’s back.
In conclusion the Holocaust was a horrible thing. It created a world war that could only be stopped by someone winning. The Jews and other prisoners got caught in the crossfire of this world war. The Jewish people and many other prisoners that were in the camps face starvation, selection, transport, and many other
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.
There are also a few dates where a huge amount of Jews died. This is important to the topic because it shows the devastation killing squads can cause. During the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the killing squads followed the German Army. Their orders were to destroy all Jews, Communist, and Gypsies. “By the end of 1942, over a million Soviet Jews died” (USHMM). This is a very large amount of people to die in only half a year. During the summer of 1942, 137,346 Jews are killed according to S.S Karl Jaegers report. Almost all Jews in small towns in Lithuania are killed. 35,000 survivors are put into forced labor (USHMM). There was no good outcome for the Jews. It was either die or be put into labor. The facts and figures show the massive number of killed Jews. The killings would even be bigger if the time span was to increase.
The Holocaust was a horrible time for everyone involved, but for the Jews it was the worst. The Jews no longer had names they became numbers. Also they would fight and the S.S. would watch and enjoy. They lost all personal items, then forced to look and dress the same. This was an extremely painful and agonizing process to dehumanize the Jews. Which made it easier to take control of the Jews and get rid of them.
The expropriation of the Jewish people began with the confiscation of the Jewish wealth, the removal of Jewish property, the registration of all assert, and the inability of Jews to own home property. After the Jew was sent off people moved into their homes and took over their business. Between 1933 and 1939, 80% of the Jewish properties were seized, 50% of Jewish businesses were closed and 50% of Jews was displaced. By the time the war began in September 1939 they were not many Jew...
World War II was a time of deliberate hate among groups of innocent people who were used as scapegoats. Japanese-Americans were persecuted due to the fact that they looked like citizens of Japan, who had attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941 at the naval base, Pearl Harbor. This hatred toward the group was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were mistreated during World War II for no other reason than being different. These men, women, and children were loathed by the American public for looking like the people of the Japanese army that had attacked the United States. These people were only hated by association, even though many had come to the United States to create a better life for their family.
In 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. They were forced out no matter their loyalty or their citizenship. These Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps which were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. There were ten camps all-together and 120,000 people filled them (2009). The immigrants were deprived of their traditional respect when their children who were American-born were indorsed authority positions within the camps. In 1945 Japanese-American citizens with undisrupted loyalty were allowed to return to the West Coast, but not until 1946 was the last camp closed.
Only 7,000 emaciated survivors of a Nazi extermination process that killed an estimated six million Jews were found at Auschwitz” (Rice, Earle). Most of these deaths occurred towards the end of the war; however, there were still a lot of lives that had been miraculously spared. “According to SS reports, there were more than 700,000 prisoners left in the camps in January 1945. It has been estimated that nearly half of the total number of concentration camp deaths between 1933 and 1945 occurred during the last year of the war” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in the world’s history.
The Holocaust has many reasons to it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p.10.)They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work. Jewish people weren’t the only ones sent to concentration camps. People such as people with disabilities, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, and Socialists (Byers.p.12). Everyone that was sent to concentration camps was sent via Train cars (www.historychannel.com). They had no food, water, or rest rooms up to 18 days. Many people died from the lack of food and water (Byers, p.15.). They children under 12 and elderly were sent to death camps because they were too weak or young too do the hard labor work so they were exterminated quickly (Byers, p.17.). Everybody at the camps were ordered to wear a certain colored star so they were easily spotted. The Holocaust went on from 1939 to 1945. Throughout all those years it was BAD.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many Americans were afraid of another attack, so the state representatives pressured President Roosevelt to do something about the Japanese who were living in the United States at the time. President Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate military areas as exclusion zones, from which any or all persons may be excluded. Twelve days later, this was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast. This included all of California and most of Oregon and Washington.
They were stripped of their political rights and taken from their homes and friends with limited to no warning and uncertain what was next to come. An abundance of people were forced to one of the thousands of concentrations camps where they were separated from their families and directed to either a labor camp, where many would suffer, or to a death camp, where were they would unfortunately be executed immediately. In 1933, Hitler finally was named Chancellor of Germany and began to organize what he called the “Final Solution” (Balson). He and his Nazi party believed Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally ill were violating racial purity in Europe and devised a way to slowly kill them off and remove them from Germany and the rest of the world (Balson). Many people know and understand the events occurring during the Holocaust, but they probably don’t realize there was a plethora of steps in setting up concentration camps, persecuting the targeted groups, and keeping Hitler’s and the Nazis’ intentions a secret.
We need to remember the Holocaust because of all the Jewish people who died and the people who tried to save them. In the book “Book Thief”, the family risked their lives to help one of their friends who was Jewish. If the Nazis found out about the Jewish person in their basement they would take the whole family to the death camp with the Jewish friend. Also in the “Boys who challenged Hitler”, a group of boys who lived in Denmark, risked their Life’s to save Jewish people by putting them on rafts to float over to Sweden. They did that because Sweden was a free country and the Nazi’s did not have control over them.
To begin with the holocaust had a great impact in history even though it was a time of disaster, murder, and discrimination. It was a time in which Adolf Hitler,German politician and Nazi party leader, wanted all Jews suffering or dead. Adolf Hitler turned everyone against the Jews because he believed that they were to wealthy and too powerful so he wanted to eliminate all of them. The Jews went through a lot of suffering and pain. The German soldiers which took commands from their leader, Adolf Hitler, put some Jews to work and killed others. Many Jews didn't get to work they were killed instantly. All women were separated from the man and woman were mostly killed instantly only some got the opportunity to work. The some ways that the jews were killed is that they were put into gas chambers by tons or shot by soldiers. Jews were also dying by starvation dehydration soldiers would not give them enough food or water. They would only want those with blue eyes and blonde hair they discriminated all the others. Soldiers would not only kill the Jews but torture them for anything they did. The Jews would be transported from camp to camp walking even in the worst weather conditions which also many died from it.
New York: Pearson, 2012. 793). The. As a reader can see, a majority of their society had been exterminated, leaving a horrifying affect on the Jewish culture. I believe firmly that the Jews did much more than most societies would have done in the time of the crisis.
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