The Holocaust
I chose to write about the Holocaust and how people took stands and were found and killed afterwards… The Nazis were the perpetrators of the holocaust and were also Hitler's followers. The Holocaust is also known as the Shoah. It was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews in the 1930s and 1940.
Prior to 1938 the Nazis politically took civil rights away from Jewish people. They were not allowed to own businesses and they couldn’t hold civil-service posts. Jewish authored books were removed from libraries and burned. The Nuremberg laws, passed in September of 1935, decreed that only Aryans could be full German citizens, and it became illegal for Aryans and Jews to marry.
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Those that managed to escape and hide returned to the small farms in the area to ask for help. Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma were asked to help the Szall family and two Jewish sisters, Golda and Layka Goldman. The Ulma family took them in and helped them until a neighbor informed the Nazis that they were helping the Jews because he wanted their land. The German police came in March of 1944 and shot the Ulma family which included four children and Wiktoria was seven months pregnant. They also killed the two Jewish families they were …show more content…
Between June 16 and June 23 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking escape from Hitler, 12,000 whom were Jews. He worked in the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux, France, where despite explicit orders not to give “foreigners of indefinite or contested nationality; the stateless; or Jews expelled from their countries of origin”. He sporadically began printing Portuguese visas illegally as early as 1939. Between June 16 and June 23, he began frantically issuing visas to refugees waiting in line. De Sousa Mendes travelled to the border town of Irun on June 23, where he personally raised the gate to allow disputed passages into Spain to occur. It was at this point when the Ambassador Teotónio Pereira noticed and had de Sousa Mendes arrested and eventually died by starvation in
Prior to 1938 the Nazis politically took civil rights away from Jewish people. They were not allowed to own businesses and they couldn’t hold civil-service posts. Jewish authored books were removed from libraries and burned. The Nuremberg laws, passed in September of 1935, decreed that only Aryans could be full German citizens, and it became illegal for Aryans and Jews to marry.
The …show more content…
Those that managed to escape and hide returned to the small farms in the area to ask for help. Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma were asked to help the Szall family and two Jewish sisters, Golda and Layka Goldman. The Ulma family took them in and helped them until a neighbor informed the Nazis that they were helping the Jews because he wanted their land. The German police came in March of 1944 and shot the Ulma family which included four children and Wiktoria was seven months pregnant. They also killed the two Jewish families they were …show more content…
Between June 16 and June 23 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking escape from Hitler, 12,000 whom were Jews. He worked in the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux, France, where despite explicit orders not to give “foreigners of indefinite or contested nationality; the stateless; or Jews expelled from their countries of origin”. He sporadically began printing Portuguese visas illegally as early as 1939. Between June 16 and June 23, he began frantically issuing visas to refugees waiting in line. De Sousa Mendes travelled to the border town of Irun on June 23, where he personally raised the gate to allow disputed passages into Spain to occur. It was at this point when the Ambassador Teotónio Pereira noticed and had de Sousa Mendes arrested and eventually died by starvation in