The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, and the mentally or physically disabled (Introduction). The word Holocaust means burning of animals as a human sacrifice (Steele 6). In the process of the Holocaust, more than 35 million people died (Strahinich 76). The Holocaust took place mostly in Europe and Poland, where the Jewish population was three million plus (Introduction). Prime locations for the camps were on good working railroads with ghettos nearby (Strahinich 39). There were two groups involved in the Holocaust they were the Allies, which consisted of the United States, France, Soviet Union, and Britain and the other group was the Axis Powers which consisted of Germany, Japan, and Italy (World). The Holocaust is a time in …show more content…
With the Jews in the concentration camps, they were segregated from the general population. The healthy Jews were forced to do hard useless labors. It also made it easier for the Nazis to exterminate them(Steele 6). Jew politicians were moved there mainly so that they could be beaten for information(Strahinich 34). The Jews were moved to the concentration camps over a span 12 years. That 12-year time span was 1933 through 1945(Steele 6). The first concentration camp was Dachau. Dachau was built in 1933. The majority of camps were built at the Nazis climax, which was 1939(Strahinich 32). 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. One of those tasks was moving large stones out of the river. If a person could not complete the task they were shot or beaten(Strahinich 33). The worst of all the camps was Auschwitz. If a Jew was being sent or taken to that camp, they knew that meant they would be killed. By gas chambers or hard labor At Auschwitz, thousands of people would die each day(Blohm 16). In the many or all of the camps disease, starvation, torture, experimentation, and hard labor was common for the captives(Steele
This stage started in the year 1942. In this stage of the Holocaust was when deportations of Jews throughout Europe began to take place. The Nazis systematically gathered the majority of Jews throughout Europe and transported them to concentration camps in Eastern Europe. Jews and other enemies of the Nazis were imprisoned in the concentration camps. From 1940 to end on Jews were systematically move to the death camps specifically built to exterminate the Jews.
In 1939, When Hitler began his march of conquest, Jews in Nazi occupied countries were put into unsanitary ghettos, walled-off sections of a city where they were denied proper food, medical services, and heat. The Nazis despised the Jews to a point where they were going to put them in areas that were in terrible conditions for survivability. This act of hatred was the start of the timeless suffering that the Jews would have to endure in the next seven
Everyone who has learned about World War II should know about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was during the same period of World War II. “What is it called the Holocaust?” you may ask. The Holocaust originates from the Greek language and means “completely burnt offering to God.”
Shortly before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the Greater German Reich and in German occupied territory.
Originally Concentration Camps were called “re-education camps” but soon the SS started calling them Concentration Camps. These camps are called Concentration Camps because they are “concentrating” the enemy into a restricted area. The concentration Camps started soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933. Weeks after the Nazis came to power the SA, SS, the police, and local civilian authorities organized detention camps.
When the Nazis incarcerated the Jews they took them to either an extermination or death camps, a concentration camp, slave labour or they were kept for slaves for high ranking officials. The concentration camps all had different purposes, originally for forced labour, work- and reformatory , POW (prisoner of war) and transit camps. Then some were slowly transformed into extermination camps, unlike concentration camps the death camps were built to kill, exterminate, the Jews. there was a total of six extermination camps built, the death toll was 3 million for these six. While in the concentration camps the conditions were brutal, the prisoners got fed three meals a day, the inmates who worked hard labour got feed 1,700 calories throughout the
The Jews were forced to move to the ghettos because the Nazis wanted to limit Jews freedom (Blohm Holocaust Camps 10). The Nazi convinced people that the Jews were infectious and this was one of their favorite tactics to use (Altman The Holocaust Ghettos 9). They used that tactic to say that they were moving Jews into “quarantine” to protect the public from disease (Altman The Holocaust Ghettos 9). Unfortunately, the Jews were only moved to ghettos for the short-term solution of extermination (Altman The Holocaust Ghettos 13).
There are many events in history but Holocaust left a permanent scar on the face of history. The event soaked in blood and tears of innocent would be unforgettable. Holocaust also known as Shoah (in Hebrew) was a genocide that took lives of millions of people from different backgrounds. Approximately 1 million Gypises were killed, 1.5 million mentally and physically handicapped people were victims of T-4 program, but Jews where the primary victims and 6 million Jews died in holocaust (Neiwyk and Nicosia). The Holocaust took place between 1933-1945.
Did you know that eleven million people died in the holocaust? Six million of those people were Jews. The Jews were captured and taken to concentration camps because the Nazis simply hated them. Concentration camps were made to kill off all of the Jews. They did this because they saw them as a problem to Germany.
The first of the people to be sent to concentration camps were communists and social democrats who were sent to the first concentration that opened in Dachau in 1933. By July 1933, there were about 27,000 people in the “protective custody” in concentration camps. Over the next few years, Nazis set themselves to Aryanize Germany. All non-Aryans were dismissed from civil service, businesses owned by Jews were liquidated and a lot of Jews lost most of their clients in their professions. Nuremberg Laws, made prejudice and discrimination against the Jews a norm.
Or forced to do labor without enough food to endure it. The Nazis knew they were not eating enough so that is why they would force them to do labor if they were young men (Steele 37). Jews were starting to move to concentration camps at the beginning of World War Two. Since the beginning of World War two, the concentration camps were rapidly increasing. Before the concentration camps, they were held in ghettos.
The Holocaust was an execution of 8 million Europeans, and “ 6 million of the Europeans killed were Jewish women, children, and men that were brutally murdered” (Strahinich 7). It “was a catastrophe in our modern history” (Strahinich 7) now staining our history pages with hundreds of innocent people’s blood, forever lost in the grounds of the Holocaust. It took “place in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and Czechoslovakia” (Altman 9) is some of the places where hundreds died. Thanks to “Adolf Hitler” (Strahinich 8) and “the Nazis government” (Strahinich 10), they “plunged most of Europe” (Allen 7) into turmoil, taking lives that did not need to go.
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.
Daily Life at Concentration Camps Starving, cold, unclothed, sick, and hard working people were all put in concentration camps and treated horribly. The Jewish workers worked hard all day everyday or else they would get killed. The way the Nazi’s treated the Jews was extremely bad, the Jews would not get food, clothes, beds, and other necessities. There were all types of camps that had all kinds of jobs, you were assigned a job and didn 't get to pick a job. The Jews had a very compact schedule, they were busy all day, never any time to waste.