The Holocaust was a calamitous, barbaric genocide that occurred in 1933, never to be forgotten. The Jews were expulsed with persecution by the Nazis. They were targeted for their race. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, believed that the Jews were an inferior race that were not considered to be human. On the Nazis newspaper, Der Stürmer, “The Jews are our Misfortune” was written in bold words as an act of propaganda. After becoming Chancellor and gaining full control of the German Parliament, the Nazis quickly turned the power they had gained into a dictatorship. If anyone were to oppose the Nazis, they were to be subjugated and deported to concentration camps.
The Nazis then began to isolate Jews from civilization by burning their
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A seventeen-year old boy named Hershel Grynszpan shot Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary in the German Embassy in Paris. This event had triggered the destruction of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. On this terrible night, many Jews were beaten, killed, arrested, and sent to concentration camps. September 1939 was the beginning of World War II, when Germany invaded Poland. Right after, around 1940, the Nazis started to build ghettos for the Jews that lived in Poland. More than ten percent of Polish were Jewish, reaching numbers around three million. These Jews were forced to leave their home and live in overcrowded ghettos. These ghettos were lacking the necessary needs of a daily person, leading many to death of starvation and …show more content…
They were not given the time to stop and rest. Even though the Germans limited the ability to allow Jews to resist, there was still some resistance there. The Jews that were able to escape the ghettos ran to the forests to take shelter. They had to live in the forests and mountains, creating family camps partisan units. There were many acts of resistance in the death camps that were highly unsuccessful, but, on a positive note, it gave Jews encouragement, the hope that the Nazis would soon be defeated. As the Allies moved closer and closer to the German army, more and more camps were