DESTRUCTION CALLed UPON
The Holocaust was a state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews. This plan was controlled by the Nazi party, and its collaborators. Of the nine million Jews who resided in Europe, about two-thirds were killed during the Holocaust. Over one million were Jewish children, two million were women, and three million were men. There was known to be about 40,000 facilities that focused on on concentrating, holding, and killing Jews. The Nazi party, led by Hitler, had already established certain laws that limited the Jews, and after that, they started to eliminate the Jews by sending them to extermination camps. Other Jews died because Germans started using them as medical experiments. Most of the victims from these type of experiments were Jews. The reason the Germans held grudge against the Jews is because they believed all the bad things Germany had gone through were because of all the Jew population.
The Holocaust was known to be a time of complete devastation and corruption. It reached enormous cruelty and was described as ''terribly inhumane''. Nazi's spoke about Jews even before the war, they blamed them for everything: from the defeat of WW1, to the Great Depression. After WWII began, millions of Jews were taken away from homes and sent to ghettos and concentration camps. After Jews were taken to camps, they would be killed in gas chambers, or be sent on a death march.
Although Germans also targeted other groups of people, the Jews were they're main point. "Never before in history had children been singled out for destruction for no other reason than having been born." -Mordecai Paldiel (historian) |
''SACRIFICE BY FIRE''In Greek, Holocaust means ''sacrifice by fire''.
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Some FACTS- First victims of the Holocaust were people with disabilities.
- The Holocaust was hidden from the allied powers until the end of war. - Some people don't believe the Holocaust existed. - Some Jews were given tattoos with a number so they could be identified. - Imprisoned Jews were identified by a star on their clothes. - Some Germans described Jewish children as "useless eaters" and decided to kill them. - The average weight of women in concentration camps were 22-29 kilograms. - 1 day in Auschwitz they killed 24,000 people, which is equivalent to approximately a football stadium. |
SOME STORIES
In the following you will learn about some opinions/stories about people who participated in the Holocaust.
"Belgium was supposed to be neutral during the war, but Adolph Hitler ignored that and invaded Belgium. There was a movement where you could inquire about hiding Jews...hiding children, and my father did that. He had a place for my brother to go; he had a place for my sister to go, and he found this place for me, and he took me on the streetcar to a woman's house, and the reason that I keep saying "this woman" is I don't know her name.The only people that knew her name were my parents. I was a little girl then. They took me to the house--my father actually--he brought me into the house, and that was the last time I ever saw my father.
I was hidden for two years. I never went outside. I was not allowed to go outside because I didn't belong to the family, and the woman who hid me sacrificed a lot to take me. Because had the Nazis discovered she was hiding a Jew, whether it was a little girl or an adult it didn't matter, they would have killed her on the spot. Of course, as well as me. I was allowed sometimes to go out in the backyard, but for the most part that was my home for two years. I was never mistreated--ever! But I also was never loved, and I really lost a great part of my childhood--simply because we were Jews. " -Jeannine Burk, Holocaust Survivor |
"We were a big family. We were eight children. I am the oldest of eight. When they took us to the trains to take to the death camp, I was seventeen years old and my youngest brother was three years old and I still hear him scream: I want to live too. "
-Eva Galler, Holocaust Survivor "For me, the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy." -Simon Wiesthenal, Holocaust Survivor
"Out of the 78 people in my family, I am the only one to survive. My parents had 3 boys and 3 girls: My parents were Jacob and Toby; my brothers were Moishe and Baruch, and my sisters were Sarah, Rivka and Leah. They were all killed." -Solomon Radasky, Holocaust Survivor
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