Examples Of Sneetches In The Holocaust

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According to the records of the holocaust, over 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps and in gas chambers. This may seem like the holocaust was no big deal, but it was a huge deal. The Germans took so many Jews and forced them into concentration camps. They were killed just because they believed something different. Many people in the Holocaust had to survive obstacles, and try to gain their freedom or to help to free their family. They had to overcome obstacles just to get enough food to stay alive. Nothing is harder than persevering alone, then trying to stay strong when there is nobody there. The people in the holocaust had to be ripped away from their families and dragged away to concentration camps. They had to endure suffering …show more content…

The Polish and Jewish people were put in ghettos and concentration camps because of the way they looked. Even people who wrote children's books like Dr. Seuss saw and wrote about the discrimination of people. In the Sneetches there are two different types of sneetches who were discriminated because they did not have a star. Here is a quote that shows discriminating against others. “They never invited the Plain-Belly Sneetches. They left them out cold, in the dark of the beaches” (Seuss 7). The Jews were treated very badly just because of the they looked and many authors were trying to show this in their works so that it would not happen again. Many authors portrayed this in their works so that people would know what was going …show more content…

Many people in the holocaust had to deal with their family and friends being taken away from them. They had to overcome being alone or being afraid or depressed, and not being able to communicate with people. Their are some people not even in the holocaust that had to overcome the pain of not being able to help suffering Jews. “Possibly the only time Max’s illness didn’t hurt was at dinner” (Zusak 330). This shows how painful it was that Max was ill. For someone you care for to be dying, and not be able to do anything. Many Jews had to endure this. Not to be physically hurt, but to be mentally hurt. Many people in the holocaust were abused and treated very badly, but some people even today are still not aware of the tragedies that happened in the internment camps. They have to overcome the ignorance of not knowing what happened and learn about what happened. Some people also know what the holocaust is and choose to ignore the tragedies that befell the Jews. Some time ago there was a film made to recognise a school and what they did to honor the Jews that were killed in the

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