of the notorious extermination camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau‚ Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobibor‚ and Treblinka. Being a Jew at any of these camps would mean certain death. These Jews were killed by poison gas which was a very efficient way to kill many people. The largest gas chambers were in Auschwitz-Birkenau where at their height‚ they gassed 6‚000 Jews each day. The Germans tried to hide these gas chambers‚ so in Chelmno‚ there were mobile gas vans. At the end of World War II‚ they murdered
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the fairy-tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. Jane Yolen creates a fractured version of the tale through the use of fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep which are used to connect the readers to the horrors of the extermination camp Chelmno. The main themes concerning this novel are identity which is reflected through Gemma. Family love and loyalty‚ regards Becca and her family. Journey/Quest for meaning‚ the journey that Becca undergoes to fulfil her promise. Survival of the Human spirit
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Killing centers were established by the Nazis. These killing centers were simply just "death factories." Almost 2‚700‚000 Jews were murdered in these centers‚ either by asphyxiation with posionous gas‚ or by shooting. The first of these camps was Chelmno. Not only Jews‚ but some Gypsies‚ were also gassed here in mobile gas vans. Belzec‚ Dobibor and Treblinka were all opened in 1942 in Generalgouvenement (territory in the interior of occupied Poland.) These camps were refered to as the "Operation Reinhard
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Sonderkommandos http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg/555px- Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg Table of contents Introduction 3 The need of sonderkommandos 4 Politics 4 gas chamber 5 The work of the sonderkommandos 8 Revolts within the camps 10 Survivors 12 Resources 16 Introduction When one thinks
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Tragedy‚ defined as “a lamentable‚ dreadful‚ or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster‚” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragedy) was prominent between 1939 and 1945. An alternate definition‚ “a disastrous event‚ especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life‚” was also prominent during these 6 long years‚ due to the Holocaust’s estimated death toll being that of 9 to 11 million. The Holocaust‚ (Holocaust derived from the Greek word “holos‚” meaning completely‚ and “kaustos
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The Segregation of the Jewish Community As recent as 60 years ago‚ a vast amount of people were isolated and treated cruelly because of their beliefs and appearance. This time was known as the Holocaust‚ and the hatred was heavily focused toward the Jewish community. Hitler and his army persecuted those whose views differed from his own. It is clear that they made this possible by segregating the Jews and creating laws that robbed them from their basic human rights. The word “Ghettos” was used
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Gemma‚ Yolen’s protagonist‚ experienced an event that can be considered as one of the cruellest ones occurred in history‚ the Holocaust. She was‚ according to the tale‚ the only woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. After a “kiss”‚ Gemma wakes up from her “dream” without remembering anything except for a fairy tale. Although this could seem a happy ending to an internment story‚ she is not fully liberated from this consternation. In fact‚ the events lived during her stay in the death concentration
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very young. Then they started to go after the Jewish people for a mass genocide. On March 17‚ 1942‚ the first mass gas killing started at the concentration camp at Belzec‚ Poland. Following that‚ 5 more mass killing concentration camps were opened: Chelmno‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ Majdanek‚ and the most famous‚ largest‚ and deadliest: Auschwitz-Birkenau. For the next 3 years (1942-1945)‚ the killings got more horrific‚ larger‚ and finally known worldwide. The Allied forces were not unaware of the horrors
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sewer system. Deportations from lodz ghetto to the chelmno killing center begin(Children of the holocaust). German police will carry out round ups in the ghetto. In the spring of 1944 the nazis decide to destroy the lodz ghetto. By then the lodz is the last remaining ghetto in poland with a population of about 75‚000 jews. On june 23rd 1944 the germans resume deportations from lodz(Children of the holocaust). About 7‚000 jews were deported to chelmno and killed. The deportations continue in july and
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Life in Auschwitz Elie Wiesel‚ a former prisoner of Auschwitz‚ once said‚ “The opposite of love is not hate‚ it’s indifference.” Auschwitz was a camp set up by Nazis in the early 1940s and more than 12‚000 people died a day there. Who did Auschwitz affect? What happened there? How did it start? Auschwitz was a camp for many more than just Jewish people. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler lead Nazis to make a perfect race when the economy crashed. They wanted blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germans
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