Adolf Hitler's Life During The Holocaust

The holocaust started in 1933 when Adolf Hitler became leader. Adolf hitler’s Nazi germany killed about six million Jews. Those victims included 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the jews living in europe. Hitler did not want jews to be seen by the public eye so he made concentration camps and ghettos. This paper will be explaining what ghettos and concentration camps are, Life during the holocaust, and laws. Ghettos are were set up to segregate Jews from the rest of the population. They were designed to be temporary some lasted only a few days or weeks, others for several years. The Jews in the ghetto were dependent on the Nazis for food, water, and medication. The living conditions were horrible and many died from starvation and disease. The ghettos were overcrowded because nazis kept sending in more Jews from the surrounding areas. Concentration camps were where people were contained or confined without trial. Prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and without any rights. Prisoners lived in wood or brick barracks. More than 700 people lived in one barrack the barracks lacked heat and they were not sanitary. Over 200,000 people died in concentration camps. Some camps involved forced labor in addition to the other forms of inhumane treatment. They killed the jews by shooting them, putting them in gas
People couldn't do anything to stop it. They just had to live with it. Kids were tore away from families and a lot of kids never seen their parents again. They were sent to ghettos and ghettos became transition areas used as a collection points for deportation to death camps and concentration camps. Neither had good living conditions and many died from starvation. They were not treated fair and were not treated