...The Holocaust was an act of genocide that claimed the lives of many innocent people in many cruel ways. The victims’ fates were chosen by Nazi doctors through a process called selection. The Schutzstaffel (SS men) would take victims from their homes and families and put them into concentration camps where they would find out if they were to live or die. There were two main options in the concentration camps: labor or gas chamber. If the fate of the prisoner wasn’t labor or the gas chamber then they were likely shot or died because of the harsh conditions that they had to live in. That’s mainly how the victims were murdered. Another way their lives were taken was by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units). These killing units would...
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...Holocaust and the Survivor Stories The Holocaust was a time when millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis. Nazis who came to power on January 1933 in Germany believed that the Germans were good and great but the Jews were useless and low. In front of them they were aliens and bad for that community. The Greek word Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire”. National Socialist Government of Germany started the concentration camps. Nazis deported many Jews from Germany. The population of the Jews was about nine million or more. The Holocaust was one of the worst events that happened in the world’s history and many people sacrificed their lives. Nazis recommended the idea of killing children who are from dangerous groups and wanted to protect their community from getting harmed by them. The Germans killed over millions of children some of them were Jews and some were Romani. Some Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents were used as forced labor and this way...
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...Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. This law was the start of all legal standards for additional anti-Jewish legislation. After the Nuremberg Laws, many new laws against Jews were created. These laws kept Jews away from parks, fired them from civil service jobs, forced Jews to register their property, and prohibited Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than...
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...INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCAUST * Related Articles * Related Links * Comments * How to cite this article Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928. — US Holocaust Memorial Museum * VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS * VIEW PERSONAL HISTORIES * VIEW ARTIFACTS * VIEW MAPS * VIEW HISTORICAL FILM FOOTAGE The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? In 1933, the Jewish population of Europestood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and theircollaborators killed nearly two out of every...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust is a word of greek between 1933 and 1945 when jews and members of other groups were murdered by the nazi’s In the holocaust six million or more jews were killed by adolf hitler's nazi regime and its collaborators. Five million non-jewish victims of nazi mass murders, bringing the total of eleven million The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's witnesses, and homosexuals. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered. In the early years of the nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration cmaps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews...
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...The Holocaust The Holocaust was a tragic event that lasted from 1933-1945 for a total of twelve years. The group of people that was the cause of this was known as the Nazis, their leader’s name was Adolf Hitler. He gained power of Chancellor in 1933, the first year of the Holocaust (Holocaust). Hitler had violence in his past, so it was no surprise when he wanted to cause more harm and violence to others. “He thought that the Jews were an “alien” threat to the German racial purity and community” (Concentration). The Holocaust went on during the battle of World War II. The Holocaust was a tragic event that should never happen again, and here is a few things that went on during these brutal twelve years. The first concentration...
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...Life during the Holocaust The Holocaust was a horrible event and had many tragedies and losses of family and friends. This event starts in 1933 where Hitler rises to power, and ends in 1945 where Hitler is defeated and the holocaust has ended. There are many topics about the holocaust that people would want to know, but this topic is a crucial and important one. The topic is Life during the Holocaust where we learn about how Jewish people live during the holocaust and what happened to them in the concentration camps. A very shocking moment in people’s life is when they are kids and they live during the holocaust. Children in the holocaust were beaten, tortured and killed in either a concentration camp or death camp. If they did survive they would have died of hard labor, starvation or diseases that were spread in camps. A total of one and a half million Jewish children were killed during the holocaust. During the holocaust children had to wear patches in the shape of a yellow star which is known as the Star of David. One comment from a Jewish child during the holocaust in Belgium named Beatrice Muchman defined it as when “…Having to wear the yellow star was a moment when deep fear and misery finally took hold” (www.ushmm.org). The holocaust striped children of all their memories and dreams in the future. The Jewish children couldn’t go to school because of the laws that were created for instance on law from the holocaust was Children with either mixed Jewish blood, Half Jewish...
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...The Holocaust The Holocaust was a very rough time in history. The Holocaust was a genocide or an assassination of about six million Jews organized by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s-1940s (Steele 93). Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany in 1933 (Steele 18). Jews were discriminated against and tortured just because of their faith. The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being sent to live in ghettos and eventually being deported to concentration camps where they were systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors. Jews were segregated against and divided from the rest of the society. The Jews were deported by trains and trucks (Deportations) and sent...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish Europeans during World War Two. The Nazi Party in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, exterminated about two thirds of the Jewish population residing in Europe. The Nazis placed the blame of all of Germany’s problems on the Jewish people. The Nazis referred to the holocaust as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” This paper will discuss the terrible things that happened throughout the holocaust by the Nazi party to the Jewish population. The holocaust was not the first plan by the Nazis to get rid of the Jewish race in Europe. Their first plan was to deport all of the Jews to German colonies such as Tanganyika and South West Africa (90 facts). Hitler was against these places because he argued that no place where “so much blood of heroic Germans hath spilled” should be made available as a residence for the worst enemies of the Germans. Madagascar became the most seriously discussed location for a Jewish relocation. Madagascar was perfect because it was a remote location that had unfavorable conditions so it would hasten deaths. This plan was approved by Hitler in 1938 and was carried out until the mass murder began in 1941(Facts about the holocaust). This first step was an important psychological step on the path to the mass murders of the Holocaust. Concentration camps were where the Nazis kept Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally disabled. These camps were founded...
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...The Holocaust It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages...
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...he shot himself in the head with his own pistol because Soviet forces had surrounded Berlin and were closing in on his bunter. SLAVE LABOR CAMPS Millions of Jews, foreigners, & prisoners-of-war were forced to labor camps in German during World War II. Forced labor camps job with no legal rights horrible living conditions. Between 1933 & 1945 Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison to millions of victims. GAS CHAMBERS In 1942 there was seven gas chambers established. Each chamber 2,500 people were put in them but only 200 to 1,500 people. SWASTIKA Swastika is an ancient symbol that been used over 3,000 years used by many cultures (Hitler took it from Indian and turned it into something bad). The swastika used to represented life, sun, power, strength, & good luck. But now it means death & hate. DR. MENGELE BORN: March 16th 1911 DIED: February 7th 1979 Dr. Mengele was called the “Angel of Death”. He determined who would be killed or who would be forced laborer (including children). He was in World War II HOLOCAUST STARTED: January 30th 1933 ENDED: May 8th 1945. Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsh persecution that ultimately led…5 million Jews murdered to the death camps,6,000,000 Jewish people (1.5 million of these being children) were murdered. The Holocaust was the most corrupted time in the history well besides the Civil War. Hitler was sinful, manipulative, bitter man in the world. Hitler...
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...Concentration Camps during The Holocaust A concentration camp is where prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and political prisoners are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions, or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of the Nazi Party. The supposed opposition soon included all Jews, Gypsies, and certain other groups. By 1939 there were six camps: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenburg, and Ravensbruck. It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, "the final solution." The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word "holokauston", meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With...
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...Delbo, a survivor of Auschwitz. For many men and women Auschwitz was a time of great fear, death and despair. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, and commanded by Rudolf Hoss (1900-1947). It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. These concentration camps were made up of mainly Jewish people. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, and at least 1.1 million died. Around 90 percent of those were Jews. As a matter of fact,...
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...The Holocaust is about a series of events that took place during 1933. The Holocaust was were Gypsies, Jews, and homosexuals were torchered and put in Labor camps, Death camps, and Transit camps. Most of the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals were killed in all three of those camps. During the Holocaust the Nazi soldiers went after the Jews but went after Gypsies, and homosexuals also. The Nazis religion teaches them to hate the Jews, Gypsies, and the homosexuals. Nazis targeted them because they thought they were a threat to the country, so the Nazis tried to eliminate all of the Gypsies, Jews, and homosexuals from all the countries near Germany. So the Nazis went on kind of a scavenger hunt for the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. The German...
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...According to The United States Holocaust Museum Memorial, the Holocaust was the systematic, state sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi regimes and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (ushmm.org). To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years” (ushmm.org). Nazis deported more than a million...
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