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How Do People React To The Holocaust

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In late January, the fourth gas chamber is built for the horrid camp Auschwitz. And with the opening of the third camp, the daily containment of innocent corpses reach the saddening capacity of 4,756 daily. A massive escape from Sobibor (concentration camp) as Jews break out. 300 escaped, only 50 survived. Deaths then stop at Sobibor, after over 250,000 deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted.

One major addition to the death toll of the Holocaust is the liquidation of the Kraków ghetto. Kraków was one of the huge five ghettos made by the Nazis. The liquidation had killed over 2,000 people, while they “transferred” another 2,000 Jews.

On April 6, 1944, the Nazis raid a french home in Izieu, France housing Jewish children. The children aged from five to seventeen, were watched by seven adults. The Gestapo- a secret police force for the Nazis- had pulled up in front of the orphanage. They trampled into the house, taking all the children. As a witness later recalled: 'I was on my way down the stairs when my sister shouted to me: It 's the Germans, run away! I jumped out the window. I hid myself in a bush in the garden. I heard the cries of the children that were being kidnapped and I heard the shouts of the Nazis who were carrying them away. ' 51 were arrested. …show more content…

July was the month in which the first work camp was liberated. Majdanek, also known as KL Lublin. Most of the Soviet prisoners at Majdanek were too brittle to work, even walk. Theoretically, all were dead by February

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Many lives were lost during the German’s attempt to wipe out all Jews, and those who lived lost a part of their life during this time. The young boys lost their childhood and ‘innocences’. They witness more death and suffering than anywhere in the country. Today, there is still death and violence against others.

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During WWII close to 400,000 people were taken to Warsaw Ghetto, a 1.3 square mile space where disease and hunger was abundant. It was constructed with "10-foot-high walls topped with barbed wire" (Lowellmilkencenter.org). Nazi guards surrounded the entire Ghetto shooting anyone who attempted to escape. Anyone who survived living there would be sent to Treblinka Concentration Camp, where they would be killed. No Jews ever came out alive from that place.

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On the day of July 16th, 1942 , a horrible event took place. The Vel’d’Hiv Roundup. 4,500 French policemen arrested over 11,000 Jews. Within the short time frame of a week 13,000 Jews had were being held in the Vel’d’Hiv , the winter stadium , more then 4,000 children were with them. Children two years to sixteen years of age were arrested alongside their parent or guardian.

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1. “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.”

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Over 6 million people of the Jewish faith were killed during the Holocaust. An estimated 600,000 survived the concentration camps. Many people don’t understand how concentration camps affected one psychologically or spiritually. There are many authors that wrote about their experiences during the Holocaust and its effect on them. Two authors that show how the Holocaust effected them spiritually are Viktor Frankl and Elie Wiesel.

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It had been late January in 1933, Adolf Hitler had begun his new position as Chancellor of Germany and has continuously preached about exterminating the Jews. Hitler would continue to rule for the next 12 years, and keeping true to his threat, he would spend 4 years of his rule secretly pulling off the biggest mass genocide in history. His plans would lead to over 6 million deaths and an overall count of 17 million victims. The reason his plans had been majorly successful was due to the secrecy of the death and torture by using propaganda and concentration camps, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau or Buchenwald. To get to the camps, German officers would ‘evacuate’ families and send them by train or cattle car, after reaching the nearest camp families

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