The Germans shipped the Jews by trains and buses to Auschwitz, also other concentration camps. Within a week the number of Jews held in the Vel’ d’Hiv had reached more than 13,000. (Gilbert,2011) Among those detained were Jews Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia. Cecile Winderman Kaufer was one of the innocent people to have lived through and survived to have her story told.…
One fact that is most disturbing about the Holocaust is that they were forced to hide. People shouldn’t be treated like this and people shouldn’t treat other people like this. For example, in the Diary of Anne Frank the Franks and Van Daans and Dussel had to go into hiding because they would be forced to go to concentration camps. Their families would have been distributed and they would’ve not seen each other for years.…
the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators”, lasting from the years 1939-1941 (United States Holocaust Museum). After becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime strived to bring Germany out of the depression and debt zone that they were currently in. Since the Nazis believed strongly that the Jewish people were harmful to the Germans and were “inferior”, Hitler’s idea of helping Germany out of this mess was by getting rid of the Jews in his ”Final Solution”. As a part of his Final Solution, Hitler exterminated the Jewish population through the implementation of concentration camps. Located in these camps were: gas chambers, crematories, and labor camps, which were used to execute the Jews. At these camps, the Jews were forced to work and if not, “[they would] go straight to the furnace [Or] to the crematory” (Wiesel 47). Although the Jews were the main targets, many other groups were subjected to cruelty under the Nazis as well. Some of these groups included: gypsies, homosexuals, the physically/mentally challenged, communists, anyone who opposed the Nazis, and the elderly (Wahutu,…
During the holocaust millions of Jews were killed. Six million is the minimum number of Jews that were tortured, and or killed during the Holocaust. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution” - The Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in industrial settings,…
There were hundreds, if not thousands of death camps settled across Europe during World War II. But despite the word “death camps”, a term that is used to describe the horrible events of the Holocaust, the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps, but still, out of all of those, only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, as well as Treblinka were quite large, but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945, the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror that won’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten.…
The German Nazis’ “Final Solution” would involve the deportation and murder of 11 million Jews. This list also included Jewish residents of nations outside of German control, such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and Great Britain (ushmm.org). The Jews would be taken on journeys in box cars in tight spaces, had little to no food or water along their way, and suffered through unbearable temperatures. The journeys in the boxcars were hard to go through for Jews during the Holocaust.…
Although concentration camps have been liberated by American troops in 1945, the consequences are still there. Survivors were badly affected by diseases, starvation, etc.…
The term “Holocaust” was used in the past as a word to describe mass destruction caused by fire or nuclear war. Since World War II ended in 1945, this term has taken on a new and terrifying meaning: the stretch of time over several years in which the deaths of some six million Jews took place under the jurisdiction of the Nazi regime leader, Adolf Hitler. Although he was a very unsparing and austere leader, there were many who were courageous enough to take a stand against his vengeful schemes. Forms of resistance against the Nazi regime took shape in various ways and were led by many groups of people, not only within groups of the persecuted Jews. Some of the most successful acts of rebellion that took place…
The Nazis killed most of them in gas chambers while pumping poisonous gas for the purpose of mass murder. Many of the tortured people were starved and shot or worked to death. This slaughtering and murdering of millions of Jews and others, this genocide, was called the Holocaust. As a result of the Holocaust, approximately 11 million people died in total, which included 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews which contained the Gypsies, homosexuals, artists and dissidents. Even though, the U.S and its allies, which included the Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Free French, were aware of the camps, they didn’t understand the extent of the horrors until towards the end of the war. The Nazis kept it a secret from them. When the Allies took over Germany, they found out about these terrible acts that the Nazi leaders committed. Moreover, the U.S and its allies weren’t quite sure how to handle the situation. As a result, the Allies created the Nuremberg Trials which punished the most important captured leaders of Nazi Germany who committed crimes against humanity. Crimes against humanity are considered the highest level of criminal offense which includes murder, extermination, enslavement and other inhumane acts against a group of…
The Holocaust commenced during 1993, when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were subjugated by the Allied Potencies. The Holocaust was a slow procedure in the beginning, and it was made up of many contrasting factors. Together, all of them came to create events of dreadful violations. The living conditions during this time was very poor, because people were steadily catching diseases. Prisoners were fed breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Each barrack had a couple of stoves made with a brick warming flue racing between them. Although,, fuel was not included. As an outcome several prisoners died due to the severe, cold weather. The barracks, where the soldiers slept, were filled with different kinds of rats and…
By the end of World War II, about two-thirds of the Jewish population were killed. Countless people lost their family and their friends. When the survivors were released from the concentration camps, numerous individuals had nowhere to go, and no place to call home. The Allied forces tried a multitude of Nazi War criminals in the Nuremberg Trials hoping that the imprisonment or killing of these flawed, yet guilty German officials would bring justice to those who survived the Holocaust. But was justice truly ever achieved?…
It was the mass execution of six million Jews by the Nazis and their supporters. The concentration camps set up by the Nazis, to house the many Jewish prisoners, were liberated in 1994 and 1945. Many of the prisoners were alive, but emaciated and disease ridden. When the war ended, the Jewish survivors that had survived had no passports and no papers needed to even try to escape into another country. Now the real questions remained.…
Death Marches In the summer of 1944 the Soviet Army destroyed the German Army Group Center and took over the first of the major Nazi concentration camps, Lublin and Majdanek. SS Chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the prisoners of all subcamps and concentration camps to be evacuated and moved towards the interior of the Reich. The SS had no time to complete the evacuation due to the Soviet advance.(Death Marches. ushmm). During the evacuations prisoners were forced to march by foot for long periods of time.…
How could an individual fight back in a way that sets what they are fighting for in…
Our world has gone through many wars. But there is one war, in particular, that has changed the lives of thousands of people: World War II. This war brought out the worst in many, especially Adolf Hitler; who believed the war was a success because of how many Jews he had massacred. Hitler 's goal was to make a pure race of people mainly with blonde hair and blue eyes; everyone else, the Jewish race, sick people, and disabled people were to be removed, erased, executed. Though many other people of different races were executed, the largest portions of the killings were of the Jewish race. So many horrible events happened to these people, and those memories still live with them to this day. This paper argues…