Cause And Effects Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic government-funded murder of over 6 million Jews. (Intro to Holocaust) Not only Jews were persecuted though, gypsies, the disabled, Slavic people, Poles, Russians, Communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals were also persecuted. (Intro to Holocaust) The Holocaust didn’t occur in a specific place but many places, it happened wherever Nazi power or the Axis powers were present. (Intro to Holocaust) The Axis powers were Germany, Russia, and all of their allies. (Memorial 32) All the killings in the Holocaust occurred in Europe in Russia. (Memorial 32) Many civilians were involved too, not in assisting the murder of the Jews, but of saving and smuggling the children out of Europe. (Geier 155) The

While the ghettos had horrible conditions and many Jews died there, it kept them alive longer than in the concentration camps (Memorial 3). The Jews were moved to the ghettos in the late 1930s, but that did not last long (Memorial 3) On January 29, 1941-1943, the end of the ghettos came, all the Jews were moved to the Extermination Camps or “killing centers” (Memorial, 3). The Extermination Camps were part of the Final Solution, it occurred when the last ghetto was destroyed (Ghettos). The Jews were not given long pack for the ghettos, they were, “given 3 hours to pack and told to only bring as much as they could carry” (Adler 56). The ghettos were a horrible place where many Jews were starving, sick, or out on the streets in the overcrowded area, the “Jews tried to maintain some semblance of a normal life” (Adler 58). There were, in fact, 3 different types of ghettos. The closed ghetto, open ghetto, and destruction ghettos (Ghettos). It is not surprising that uprisings did occur in these horrendous conditions, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest ghetto with the largest uprising