They used the jews against each other. They would keep around 1,000 jewish men to carry out forced labor.
They used the jews against each other. They would keep around 1,000 jewish men to carry out forced labor.
There were 80 Jews packed into one cattlecar. They were cramped, deprived of water and food. Also, it was extremely hot in these cattlecars as there were no open windows for air to pass through.…
Treatment for the Jews was brutal enough to kill them off. Eliezer survived though and was brought to…
“Victims of the squads were forced to surrender all valuables and remove all clothing.”(www.ushmm.com) The soldiers would humiliate the Jews by marching them naked. Some victims were even raped. Most of the Jews were ordered to dig their own grave. After digging their hole they were shot and thrown into it.…
Belzec was an extermination camp located in Southeastern Poland on the Lubin-Lvov railway line (“Belzec Death Camp” par. 1). The camp was built on November 1st, 1941 by the Germans for the sole purpose of slaughtering minority groups (“Belzec Concentration Camp: History & Overview” par. 1). The Jewish Virtual Library estimates that between 500,000-600,000 Jews were incarcerated and killed at Belzec (par. 1). The mass murders were executed with carbon monoxide gas that was released in the “showers” (“Belzec” par. 11). In the spring of 1943, the final corpses were burned and the camp was closed. To discourage locals from rummaging for valuables, the land was plowed and turned into a farm, with a former Ukrainian guard as the farmer (“Belzec Concentration Camp: History & Overview” par. 9). Chaim Hirszman, one of the few prisoners to survive the camp, recounted the horrors he witnessed, “A transport of children up to three years of age arrived. The workers were told to dig a big hole into which the children were thrown and buried alive. I cannot forget how the…
55,000 people were deported from the Lodz Ghetto to Chelmno. The Gypsies died of hunger and the few survivors were sent to be killed in Chelmno. By the end of summer 1942, all Warthegau ghettos had been exterminated.…
Not all Jews were killed, some were saved, but most Jews were killed. For example “Signs of unimaginable suffering were everywhere, inmates had been shot, beaten, whipped and, hung, others had been starved or worked to death” Furthermore “As chief of the Jewish office of the RSHA, Adolf Eichmann was responsible of deporting between five and six million Jews.” According to yadvashem.org, “ Suzanne Spaak was an active participant in an operation initiated by Pastor Paul Vergara and Marcelle Guillemot that smuggled more than sixty children to safety. She sheltered some of the children in her home until they were all taken to people willing to shelter them. With her comrades’ help, Suzanne Spaak, at great personal risk, provided the children with…
About an estimated of 119 Jews were murdered in December as part of a program. Some of these Jews were put to work hard in really cold seasons and became weak. Many of these Jews were killed by the guards just so they could had fun. All of these Jews were denied medical treatment and some died of illness. On October of 1942 the last group of these Jews were were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.…
There were very many people killed in the camp each day. There are so many people they tried to say something and they just got killed. “They estimated about 500-600,000 but, the people killed were mainly Jews”…
In the short time frame of about 6 years around 6 million Jews were murdered in a horrible event called the holocaust. The holocaust was an event lead by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945. It is the reason for the mass genocide of European Jews and many other European people. The Nazis targeted the Jews, Russians, Catholics, Communists, and many other European places because they believed that only people of pure European blood should live and the Jews were the cause of the Great…
The number of innocent lives taken from Jews during the Holocaust itself is absolutely astounding, going in at around 6 million lives ended during the space of World War II. As stated in James M. Deem’s “AUSCHWITZ: VOICES FROM THE DEATH CAMP”, “No one knows for certain the exact number killed there. Using various documents that survived the war, reports and even telegrams, to name a few, researchers calculated that at least 1,305,000 people were taken to the camp. ( 15).…
Finally Jews were treated as objects. Like if they were a nuisance to the world and the Nazis were doing the world a favor by killing them. They had no regard for their lives. We first see an example of this in the first chapter: “Children were thirsty, crying for water standing in the scorching sun for over three hours.” Meaning they were not given water to…
<br>By the end of 1933 there were at least fifty concentration camps throughout occupied Europe. "At first, the camps were controlled by the Gestapo (police), but by 1934 the SS, Hitler's personal security force, were ordered, by Hitler, to control the camps."…
There were many ghettos that were filled with hundreds of thousands of jews in the biggest ghettos and their life was not easy. They had barely any food and most of them didn't have jobs. They sold their clothes for food. They were just trying to survive with basically nothing. In this paper i will tell you about what all the Jewish people had to go threw.…
Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself…
Chapter 1: I felt anger and disbelief. Why couldn’t they have known where the Jews were being transported? They had many chances to run away and escape, but how could they have known what was waiting for them at the end of their “vacation”?…