One of the most notorious events in all of history is the Holocaust, which took place during World War II. Every tragedy begins with something, or in this case someone, and this was commenced by a man by the name of Adolf Hitler. Hitler stepped into a powerful role in Germany, and at about that time he began this lengthy period of horror. He had a goal for his time of rule; execute all of the Jews in Europe, and he did just about that by murdering two-thirds of their population. Hitler thought of the Germans as a more superior race than the Jews. He began taking over more and more countries, executing more and more Jews. He would attack and then take over. Even after raiding and taking parts of other countries and starting to murder more Jews, he did not stop. Firstly in …show more content…
People being dragged away from their homes, bring only minimal things with them. Large bands of Jewish people lined up in the streets, taken to be shipped off to concentration camps. After being taken away from their homes and marched in the street, they would be shipped off in cattle cars. These cars were very unsanitary, often times carrying diseases, which in many cases most would die on the cars. If by chance most survived up until arriving at a concentration camp, more would starve, die from illness or die from overworking. There we Concentration camps were technically death camps. Hitler created them to put Jews through a living hell until they died. It was considered lucky if you somehow escaped or made it out. It was especially a rarity to make it through the worst-known camp, Auschwitz. Only a total of 144 prisoners were able to escape Auschwitz. Just about 1 in 6 Jewish people that were persecuted during the whole Holocaust died at Auschwitz. Oddly enough, Hitler never visited a single one of these ghastly camps. Concentration camps were placed mainly in and around
Jews usually work in the camp and did outside labor like factories, construction projects, farms or coal mines (Vashem). They walked miles to get to their work. If they did not corporate they were shot on sight. 11 million Jews were killed in the holocaust(Rosenberg). Miep Gies was living in Amsterdam almost all her life.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. By 1945, he was responsible for over six million deaths. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were persecuted for their religion. They were forced to move to concentration camps where they were murdered or forced to do hard labor. Elie Wiesel was taken to the Auschwitz camp with his family when he was just fifteen years old.
The Camp In total, 6 million people died in the Holocaust; 1.5 million of them died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Holocaust created a great deal of controversy all over the world and in turn, changed people’s opinions of Jewish people and Germans. The Auschwitz concentration camp imprisoned millions of Jewish people who didn’t know what their next day would entail. Deindividuation and social polarization was seen all throughout the Holocaust but in this case, Auschwitz itself.
The Holocaust was a period of time when Adolf Hitler spread his ideology. He formed a group called the Nazis which were Germans. They hated Jewish people and had the idea that Jewish people ought to die. 6 million Jewish people died during this period of time. The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945.
The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler, ruler of the Nazi party, and his associates conducted the mass murder of over six million Jews. Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler was responsible for the brutal, inhuman slaughter of the Jews from 1933 to 1945. Many German civilians were ashamed of the callous, blasé and insensitive killings led by their own ruler and therefore deny any knowledge of the events of the Holocaust. Their claims to be unaware of the events of the Holocaust are not valid and are only used as a shield for their pride and dignity. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis believed that the Germans were the ‘perfect race’ and all other races were deemed ‘inferior’.
The Holocaust is the most significant historical event that I have studied so far. This tragic event took place during World War II and only very few survivors lived to share their shocking experiences. I have read a few of these survivor’s stories, such as Night, by Elie Wiesel and it has personally impacted me and influenced my thinking in various ways. The Holocaust was the greatest act of hate, violence, and anti-semitism.
The Horrors of Auschwitz The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die. In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died. Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race.
The concentration camps are something people are always going to remember in the future. During the Holocaust there were three main camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau, and Auschwitz III Monowitz. These camps were very complex. Included in these camps were, labor camps, extermination camps and a concentration camp.
The Jews did not really start being placed in concentration camps until 1934. The reason for this is because that is when the SS got its independence from the SA, which meant the SS could do more of what the Nazis asked them to do(CONCENTRATION). The concentration camps were awful. The prisoners were forced to do a useless and hard task.
Not everyone was Jewish that died in the Holocaust, when people think of the Holocaust, they often only think of the Jews that perished. Between 1933 and 1945, more than eleven million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Only approximately six million of these were Jews. A lot of people were killed, about 280,000 Jews and 11,000 Roma, (or Gypsies. All of these people were killed during the pro-fascist regime of dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu.
In 1941-1945 jews were murdered in a genocide. Nine million jews in europe before the holocaust two-thirds of the jews were killed. The holocaust was about a concentration camp, and millions of people died in there and some of them survived. Eugene Black was transported in Auschwitz in 1944.
Edicts were made, one which being every Jewish person had to wear the yellow star to be marked and separated from other races. In the very beginning of the Holocaust, the Jews were told they could take one sack of personal belongings with them, but their sacks never even left the ghetto’s of where they lived. The Jews were forced to have their haircut, then their heads shaved. They had one pair of clothes or barely any clothing at all. For food, they had very tiny amounts of rations.
All throughout History, Millions of innocent people have been unjustly persecuted. The Holocaust was one of the most famous genocides known to man in the early 1940’s. Also the hangings during the Witch Hunts in Salem, Massachusetts were another prime instance of people being wrongfully and unjustly accused and punished. Both of the time periods show how many people died horrific and terrible deaths, and in the events of the Holocaust and the Witch Trials power was used to instill fear and hysteria into the people around them. The amount of similarities is appalling.
This was such a tragic time in history and we should all be thankful that our world isn 't like this. The Concentration Camps were made because Hitler hated the jews and wanted to kill all and they were kind of brainwashing them to tell them it is a wonderful place to live. When they were making the camps the Nazis would go around just shooting people for no reason. So Hitler and the Nazis captured the majority of the Jews and put them into these camps saying they should be here and that they deserve to died and it is all their fault.
Jews were moved to the camps to either work or be killed (Veil 113). The Nazis also wanted to keep the children, but only twins because the Nazi scientist wanted to experiment on them (Veil 115). The Nazis had a plan called the System of Death where they told all the Jews that they were going to take showers and clean off and the Nazis took them to a medium sized room where they all stripped down getting ready for showers. The Nazis would then put some Zyklon B pellets into the chamber where it reacted with the oxygen in the air and turned into chlorine gas and all the Jews were dead in minutes. They then would force some other Jews to carry the bodies to the crematorium where the bodies would be