Ms. Hershey The Holocaust History Mystery, Uncovering the Truth January 30, 1933 is the year the holocaust officially started. This historical event caused about 6 million deaths but not all these “six million “bodies were found. This start to question people if this event ever happened which is when Harry Elmer Barnes start to speak his opinion. This got people to go deep research widening this theoryyou. Gas chambers were a major source to kill people faster during the holocaust. A gas chamber is a killing method in which poisonous or asphyxiate gas got released into the chamber to kill you within minutes. This chamber could kill up to 2,000 people at a time. Since this killed several people never found evidence of the …show more content…
The holocaust was a major event that caused up to six million Jews to lose their lives. In fact, how could dis claimers even discard holocaust survivors and their …show more content…
They were put in the care of two 16-year-old girls. Edith can remember her mother crying and her father looking stern. She doesn't think she and her sister, who was two years younger than Edith, really understood what happened. Nazi officials got onto the train at the German border to make sure the children didn't take any valuables with them, though they were more interested in the older girls than Edith and her sister. The children were allowed one small case between them. Edith had a doll and both she and her sister were wearing little rings, along with a tiny necklace that Edith's mother had given her which she kept well hidden.”
This text evidence shows that a holocaust survior has a very detailed memory about the actually happened in this event. While also giving accurate historic detail. She was a survivor and actual experienced it. This is a primary source from her. Ghettos were where people held captive by Germans lived. According to http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/lodzghetto.htm “On February 8, 1940, the Nazis ordered the 230,000 Jews of Lodz, Poland, the second largest Jewish community in Europe, into a confined area of only 1.7 square miles (4.3 square kilometers) and on May 1, 1940, the Lodz Ghetto was sealed. The Nazis chose a Jewish man named Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski.” This show that there