Holocaust Persuasive Essay

Michelle Parent

8th Grade English Honors Block

Mrs. Guidry

30 January 2018

The Holocaust The Holocaust was a time during World War II when the Nazi forces killed many millions of Jews (Ayer 11). As Adolf Hitler, a terrible German dictator, and leader of the Nazi party, grew more and more powerful, his plan to exterminate every single Jew on the face of the Earth, became more successful (Blohm 10). The Holocaust took place in Nazi inhabited Poland, Norway, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and France (Blohm 7). The two main types of people that were involved in this horror of an event are the Nazis and Jews (Ayer 11). Many other groups of people were also involved. Political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, sex offenders, gypsies, emigrants,

The Jews were forced to move to the ghettos because the Nazis destroyed many Jewish homes and wrecked much of the Jewish parts of cities. To get the Jews out of town, they were then moved to these horrible ghettos (Bachrach 16). Getting as many Jews as possible to these terrible places was the first step in Adolf Hitler’s intricate plan to annihilate the Jewish people (Blohm

The first sight that they would see was bodies piled everywhere. Sometimes the guards fired into the very large crowds of Jews (Blohm 19). At concentration camps, Nazis would torture Jews in the cruelest ways, such as making them climb up steep stairs with hundred pound rocks on their shoulders (Blohm 30). One of the largest concentration camps was the infamous Auschwitz located in Poland. Approximately 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, and 1.1 million of them died. The largest prison camp was at Auschwitz Birkenau. At these camps, they had gas chambers where the Jews were killed, and then they burned them in crematoriums for an efficient way to murder mass amounts of people. They also performed various medical experiments on the Jews, but their main target was experimenting on twins (Auschwitz). Another thing that they were forced to do was something that was called Death Marches. They had to walk for miles, for hours on end between camps. Some collapsed from exhaustion. They were starved and in the freezing cold with hardly any warm clothes on them to keep them warm. The SS officers would beat them on these treacherous walks. The SS officers intended for the Jews to die on these