Holocaust Persuasive Essay

Alexa Thompson

8th Grade English Honors Block 4

Mrs. Guidry

30 January 2018

The Holocaust The Jewish population in Europe suffered greatly at the hands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. He wanted to annihilate the entire Jewish population, which he claimed was the source of all evil (Rice 27). An estimated six million Jews died during this period of time. He sent these Jews and other minorities to their deaths in labor camps for able-bodied men and death camps for those who could not work, such as women, children and the elderly (Allen Holocaust 7). Two years before the Holocaust, the Nazis went to hospitals and preyed on disabled patients, especially children (Euthanasia). The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were

Here they would isolate and degrade them until they became animals (Allen Hitler 37). They also wanted to contain the Jews into one area to take a census. Often times the Nazis would set up these ghettos near a train, to make it easier to deport the Jews to a death camp or a concentration camp, such as Auschwitz (Allen Hitler 37). The Jews did not just surrender in these ghettos, though. In Warsaw, there was an uprising known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some Jews formed a group named ZOB and they rebelled. The uprising was quickly stopped by the SS Authorities but it did boost moral and create a sense of hope for those imprisoned in the ghettos

There were rows of barracks where the prisoners would stay. Inside these barracks, there was sometimes a table or bench, and tiered platforms that were used as bunks. These barracks were unheated (Byers 76). There was an infirmary in the concentration camps. This infirmary was most often used as a place for people to die. One barrack was reserved as a morgue, while another barrack (known as “The Bunker” in Auschwitz) was a place for Jews that were recaptured or resisting, where the Nazis would torture and interrogate them (Byers 78). One famous concentration camp is Treblinka I. Treblinka I eventually evolved into Treblinka II which became a known killing center (Treblinka). The survivors of the Holocaust were liberated by Britain and the United States. These countries were in the Allied Forces, a group that opposed Germany and the Axis forces (Allen Holocaust 10). The Soviet Union also helped liberate the survivors even though the Soviets were once in an alliance with Germany. The alliance formed in August of 1939 and ended after the Germans invade the Soviet Union. They joined with the Allied Forces in July of 1941