The Unjust Holocaust
In 1933, one of the most horrendous injustices started, this infamous wrongdoing was the dreadful Holocaust. According to history.com, “The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar.” Well that may be true but this injustice was no sacrifice, Germany was selecting all the Jews and destroying them. Nearly six million Jews, one and a half million of these Jews being children, were killed in this slaughter. That is a huge amount of murders committed simply because the Germans had different beliefs than the Jews. With all of the violent killing, unfair labor and sickening torturing that went on, people believe that …show more content…
One way of torture was, according to the website remember.org, “The frozen victim would have water heated to a near blistering temperature forcefully irrigated into the stomach, bladder, and intestines.” Hence, this was probably a very slow and painful torture that the Jews were subject to. Moreover, Jews were also subject to many other horrible ways of torture. Most of the time this resulted in a terribly painful death. Thus the Holocaust was a very terrible historical event that is known about worldwide.
With Nazi out hunting Jews, many children were hidden and had to live every day with fear and dread weighing them down. This is nothing a child should have to deal with but because of the Holocaust children did deal with it. According to ushmm.org, “The ruthlessness of Nazi rule and the barbarities of war forced some children to mature beyond their years. One child survivor described them as ‘old people with children's faces, without a trace of joy, happiness, or childish innocence.’” Truly, children's’ lives were horrible enough with all the fear and depression, but children in hiding were also separated from their parents, grandparents, siblings, and other family members. Hidden children were forced to go through everything on their