Holocaust Essay

Brookelynn Messer

Mrs. Doerr

8th Grade ELA

10 February 2023

The Holocaust The Holocaust was a time of death and execution for the Jews. Jews were blamed for every bad thing that happened to Germany. Germans took their anger out on the Jews by putting them in concentration camps with little food and water.

Jews were starved, shot, beaten, worked to death, burned, and killed in gas chambers. Some Jews survived this horrible event with luck and sometimes received help from the non-Jews. The Holocaust was an unfortunate historical time when Jews were blamed for German losses, but many Jews were never caught. The Holocaust was a mass murder of around six million Jews. Around 3.5 million Jews survived this event. The Holocaust started in Germany

Nazis later accused Jews of causing all of Germany’s social, economic, political, and cultural problems (The Holocaust). Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were hostile to the Jews falsely claiming that German Jews had betrayed Germany during World War I and were responsible for its defeat (Introduction to The Holocaust). “The Nazis falsely accused Jews of causing Germany’s social, economic, political, and cultural problems. In particular, they blamed them for Germany’s defeat in World War I” (Introduction to The Holocaust). Jews had done nothing wrong but were bullied and mistreated worldwide. In early times there was a myth that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus (Introduction to The Holocaust). Jews were hated and prejudiced against for many years for all the false rumors and myths (Introduction to The Holocaust). Much suspicion and discrimination rooted in early modern Europe towards the Jews (The Holocaust). Anger over the loss of the war and the economic and political crises that followed led to increasing anti-semitism in Germans (Introduction to The Holocaust). Anti-Semitism is a bigger word for anger and hatred towards Jews. Nazis believed that the world was divided into distinct races and that some were superior to

Many survived on just pure luck; others escaped and hid inside non-Jew homes or the deep parts of the woods. Some migrated to Europe before The Holocaust started some succeeded others did not make it there. Between 1940 and 1944, men led the Protestant community of Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon in the rescue of about 5,000 more than half of them Jews. Many people in Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon tried to help Jews by hiding them in their homes, basements, and barns (Rescue and Resistance). Although there was a downside to trying to help Jews. If they were caught trying to hide them they would have been killed on sight or taken to the concentration camps with the Jews. “The residents of Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon, a Protestant village in southern France, helped thousands of refugees, most of them Jews, escape Nazi persecution between 1940 and 1944” (Introduction to the Holocaust). People of Le-Chambon-Sur-Lignon did try to hide Jews in their homes; many tried to smuggle Jews into neutral parts of Switzerland for their safety and their own. Across all of Europe, some non-Jews took great risks to help their Jewish neighbors, friends, and strangers survive. Rescue efforts ranged from the actions of individual non-Jews to organized networks, both small and large. The Jews in the camps had it rough though. Some Jews got lucky and escaped; others went through starvation, sickness, or both and didn't survive. “Despite Nazi Germany’s efforts to murder