Why Did We Hide From Nazi's

How did the Jews hide from the Nazi’s? How were the Jews treated in the camps? Did any of Jews try to escape the concentration camp? A man named Adolf Hitler persuaded a large group of people to follow and join him in his plan to get rid of the “undesirable people” in Hitler’s eyes. Hitler formed a large army of soldiers and got them to believe that Jews were born for serving them and if they didn’t do that they did not deserve to live. The treatment of Jews made people try to hide, was brutal and forced some to try to escape. Many Jews kept from getting taken by the Nazi’s in many different ways. Some Jews lived as “submarines”, which means they were hiding in plain sight and posing as non-jews. They had to live very cautious lives because
He lined them up and separated them into different groups, based on if they would physically be strong enough for forced labor. The ones that passed the first stage were treated brutally. The Nazi’s attacked and killed them at random, and also tortured, humiliated, and beat them whenever they wanted. Usually babies, young children, pregnant women, elderly, the handicapped, and the sick, had little chances of passing this stage and were put into the group that would be taken to the gas chambers. They were told they were being taken to the showers, to prevent mass panic, and to give up their valuables and clothes. Gas chambers weren’t the only way the Nazi’s killed them off though, there were several ways. They would hang some by their hands and pour boiling hot water over them, others would have water from a hose forced down their throats until their stomach’s burst. Some were even thrown into a slaughterhouse, which was then set on fire, making them burn alive. The most common way to kill them was to bring them to the gas chambers, without them knowing what was about to happen, then fill the chamber with chemicals and wait for them to die. In some gas chambers, carbon monoxide was used to pump into the chamber. In others, they would drop pellets of Zyklon B, a highly poisonous insecticide, down an air shaft. Usually everyone inside died from lack of oxygen within minutes. On a sacred Jewish holiday, Yom