Why Did We Hide From Nazi's
How did the Jews hide from the Nazi’s? How were the Jews treated in the camps? Did any of Jews try to escape the concentration camp? A man named Adolf Hitler persuaded a large group of people to follow and join him in his plan to get rid of the “undesirable people” in Hitler’s eyes. Hitler formed a large army of soldiers and got them to believe that Jews were born for serving them and if they didn’t do that they did not deserve to live. The treatment of Jews made people try to hide, was brutal and forced some to try to escape. Many Jews kept from getting taken by the Nazi’s in many different ways. Some Jews lived as “submarines”, which means they were hiding in plain sight and posing as non-jews. They had to live very cautious lives because
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there was always a good chance that someone would figure out they were Jews and turn them in. Some got their non-jewish friends to give them their identity cards, while the friend would say they lost theirs. In one instance, Edith Hahn moved to Munich, Germany and posed as her non-jewish friend. While she was there, she met a Nazi soldier, they fell in love, got married, and when she told him she was a Jew he protected her. Others hid in secret rooms and waited until it was safe to come out. One time a guy was holding his baby that was coughing, in one of the rooms with a big group of Jews with him. The Nazi’s were searching the housing right beside them, so the guy that was closest to the door hissed at the baby to be quiet. The baby wouldn’t stop coughing. The man that had hissed earlier crawled over to the baby and placed a hand over the baby’s mouth, killing it. Another way they got away was being placed in group homes or smuggled across the border, several thousands used these methods. When the Jews arrived at the camps a SS physician was waiting for them.
He lined them up and separated them into different groups, based on if they would physically be strong enough for forced labor. The ones that passed the first stage were treated brutally. The Nazi’s attacked and killed them at random, and also tortured, humiliated, and beat them whenever they wanted. Usually babies, young children, pregnant women, elderly, the handicapped, and the sick, had little chances of passing this stage and were put into the group that would be taken to the gas chambers. They were told they were being taken to the showers, to prevent mass panic, and to give up their valuables and clothes. Gas chambers weren’t the only way the Nazi’s killed them off though, there were several ways. They would hang some by their hands and pour boiling hot water over them, others would have water from a hose forced down their throats until their stomach’s burst. Some were even thrown into a slaughterhouse, which was then set on fire, making them burn alive. The most common way to kill them was to bring them to the gas chambers, without them knowing what was about to happen, then fill the chamber with chemicals and wait for them to die. In some gas chambers, carbon monoxide was used to pump into the chamber. In others, they would drop pellets of Zyklon B, a highly poisonous insecticide, down an air shaft. Usually everyone inside died from lack of oxygen within minutes. On a sacred Jewish holiday, Yom
Kippur, they were forced, in the middle of prayer, to go outside and run. When the Nazi’s ordered them to stop, if they didn’t hear them or just didn’t stop fast enough, they were shot dead on the spot. There were a lot of attempts to escape the camps, but very few succeeded, because of illness and weakness that they had developed while they were at the camp. Not to mention they had their striped pajamas on and their head shaved. If, or when, they were caught, they were brought back to the camp and executed in front of everyone as an example of what they would do if one of the others tried to escape. Two successful escapes from Auschwitz in 1944 probably saved tens of thousands of lives. They reported “ongoing massacre of Hungary’s Jews”, persuading Franklin D. Roosevelt to threaten bombing the Hungarian capital of Budapest. His threat stopped the deportation of 170,000 Jews. The treatment of Jews was horrible and cruel. That’s why the world as a whole needs to know about what happened to prevent events like this from recurring, and bring everyone together.
there was always a good chance that someone would figure out they were Jews and turn them in. Some got their non-jewish friends to give them their identity cards, while the friend would say they lost theirs. In one instance, Edith Hahn moved to Munich, Germany and posed as her non-jewish friend. While she was there, she met a Nazi soldier, they fell in love, got married, and when she told him she was a Jew he protected her. Others hid in secret rooms and waited until it was safe to come out. One time a guy was holding his baby that was coughing, in one of the rooms with a big group of Jews with him. The Nazi’s were searching the housing right beside them, so the guy that was closest to the door hissed at the baby to be quiet. The baby wouldn’t stop coughing. The man that had hissed earlier crawled over to the baby and placed a hand over the baby’s mouth, killing it. Another way they got away was being placed in group homes or smuggled across the border, several thousands used these methods. When the Jews arrived at the camps a SS physician was waiting for them.
He lined them up and separated them into different groups, based on if they would physically be strong enough for forced labor. The ones that passed the first stage were treated brutally. The Nazi’s attacked and killed them at random, and also tortured, humiliated, and beat them whenever they wanted. Usually babies, young children, pregnant women, elderly, the handicapped, and the sick, had little chances of passing this stage and were put into the group that would be taken to the gas chambers. They were told they were being taken to the showers, to prevent mass panic, and to give up their valuables and clothes. Gas chambers weren’t the only way the Nazi’s killed them off though, there were several ways. They would hang some by their hands and pour boiling hot water over them, others would have water from a hose forced down their throats until their stomach’s burst. Some were even thrown into a slaughterhouse, which was then set on fire, making them burn alive. The most common way to kill them was to bring them to the gas chambers, without them knowing what was about to happen, then fill the chamber with chemicals and wait for them to die. In some gas chambers, carbon monoxide was used to pump into the chamber. In others, they would drop pellets of Zyklon B, a highly poisonous insecticide, down an air shaft. Usually everyone inside died from lack of oxygen within minutes. On a sacred Jewish holiday, Yom
Kippur, they were forced, in the middle of prayer, to go outside and run. When the Nazi’s ordered them to stop, if they didn’t hear them or just didn’t stop fast enough, they were shot dead on the spot. There were a lot of attempts to escape the camps, but very few succeeded, because of illness and weakness that they had developed while they were at the camp. Not to mention they had their striped pajamas on and their head shaved. If, or when, they were caught, they were brought back to the camp and executed in front of everyone as an example of what they would do if one of the others tried to escape. Two successful escapes from Auschwitz in 1944 probably saved tens of thousands of lives. They reported “ongoing massacre of Hungary’s Jews”, persuading Franklin D. Roosevelt to threaten bombing the Hungarian capital of Budapest. His threat stopped the deportation of 170,000 Jews. The treatment of Jews was horrible and cruel. That’s why the world as a whole needs to know about what happened to prevent events like this from recurring, and bring everyone together.