Informative Speech On The Holocaust

Jeanne Daman
Before we begin, I would like to set the stage for you: It is Germany, in the year 1942. Jewish people are being gassed, killed, tortured, and isolated from civilians left and right. It is normal to see soldiers every third person, marching down the streets with guns. It is also normal to see Jews being rounded up, and synagogues being destroyed and burned down. No children are playing on the streets, and there are Anti-Jew propaganda flyers on every store window. Newspapers read, “Germany Winning War”, and “Hitler, Our Nation’s Finest”. None of these articles are fair, though. It was Pro-Nazis who wrote them.
There are no disabled people. There are no openly gay or transgender people anywhere in Germany, unless they are in a concentration camp. In the Jewish concentration camps, the women and children are killed, or [sometimes] worse, experimented on. The men and teen boys are sent to become forced slaves for the rest of their lives, or until they are freed [which was almost never]. In Transgender and Gay concentration camps, the Nazis attempt to “cure” the people. The transgenders are forced to dress and act like their original sex, and the gays are forced to have sexual
Volon (a helper at the school) and Jean Herinckx. However, Jeanne’s job was far from over. She was asked to maintain her rescue efforts(which she did), and traveled all over Belgium finding homes and safe places for the ever-increasing amount of Jewish orphans. Sometimes, she even had to pick children up at tram stops. The work became steadily more secretive, with more and more at stake. It was getting harder and harder to find new safe places. She couldn't just put all of the Jewish women and children in the same safehouse, because then it would draw attention. The Nazis investigated anything at any chance, especially as the Holocaust