The Holocaust: The Holocaust And The Holocaust

The Holocaust, occurred between 1933 and 1945. The actual definition of “holocaust” is a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned on an altar. The definition has now been altered to describe the slaughter of six million Jews during World War II. The leader of these mass killings was Adolf Hitler. His ideologies of the perfect race, were deemed reason enough to murder millions of human beings. How were the killings done on such a massive scale? Concentration camps. Jews, and other imperfect aryans, (homosexuals, gypsies, and the disabled), were transported to “work” camps. Here, crematoriums, gas chambers, and shootings awaited them. If you made it past your first once-over, you were expected to work in back-breaking conditions throughout
They had anywhere from 70 to 100 people in one car. They were so closely packed, there was no room to sit down, or even move. They were locked in the darkness, with absolutely no sense of where they were going or what would happen to them. An officer would throw in a bucket the Jews were supposed to use as a container for human waste. They would travel like this for days at a time. They were left hungry, thirsty, and suffocating. When they reached the camps, they were unloaded from the cattle tracks. They were separated into men, and women, with the children staying with their mothers. After being “registered”, the dehumanization process began. Each individual was to strip naked, and shave off all their hair. They had their own clothes taken away from them, and were put into striped uniforms. This process was to ensure the Jews’ dignity, and personal identity was taken away. If you were being entered into the Auschwitz camp, it was likely for you to be branded with a tattoo of a serial number. These tattoos were only issued to prisoners that were going to be working. The people heading straight for extermination, didn’t need to be kept track