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The Effects Of The Holocaust

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After sometimes in 1933, the holocaust took place in Poland and other European countries. Holocaust refers to the mass murder of Jews and other people before and during World War ll. It was organized by the German Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazi’s was a racist party that seemed to always put them above the others. They also believed that Germans were way important than other races. Mr. Adolf Hitler became Germany’s head of state in 1934 and in this same year, he introduced Anti- Semitism again. Anti- Semitism deals with the discrimination of the Jews. Therefore, when Anti- Semitic laws were produced, Mr Hitler made sure that Jews were persecuted, that children would no longer go to school, keep pets or what not. To him, the Jews were a problem that needed to be removed. Throughout the holocaust, people were treated horribly. They were moved from well improved areas to ghetto’s where they were not allowed to leave. If they tried, they would be executed. Others died of starvation because there wasn’t enough food and technically living conditions was very poor. At the same point, the Nazi’s set up camps where the Jews were tortured, starved and forced to work to death. Altogether, about 6 million Jews were murdered from this event. …show more content…

The holocaust survivors feared to go back to their former homes because of Anti- Semitism. However, they were supported by Great Britain, France and United States and the need of a Jewish home became stronger and

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This made it really hard for them to really fight back because most of them were poor and could not afford weapons like guns or knives ( Hass). Since the Jews had no power over The Nazis they were forced to do anything they wanted them to do. From 1933 to 1945 Jews were in a tough time along with the people that were against Hitler and his group of Nazis that were out to kill the Jews. Over those twelve years, many things had happened, many lives and businesses were lost in the Holocaust. Many people moved to the United States or Israel(US Holocaust memorial) because they couldn’t stand living in Europe during the time of the Holocaust.

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Niree’ Miller Mrs.Cannady English 2 Honors 4 March 2016 Holocaust In the 1940’s the Germans wanted to take rights and terminate the Jews. Some people tried to save Jews and help them by hiding them in their houses. Germans put over 6 million Jews in concentration camps and made them do work without pay, little food, and water. Women and very little children often got sent to gas chambers upon arrival.

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Throughout the Nazi regime in Europe from 1943 to 1945, many Jews opposed Hitler’s policies by engaging in acts of physical, mental and spiritual resistance. Many non-Jews also stood by the Jews in opposing Hitler’s government and his policies. These people helped many Jews escape ghettos and concentration camps. However, there were also many Jewish people who did not resist the Nazi’s and fell victim to their rule. Many non-Jews did not help the Jewish people and simply followed the regime by ignoring the atrocities that the Jews faced throughout the Nazi regime.

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The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi’s from 1933 to 1945. The Germans believed they were “racially superior” and that Jews were “inferior”, they were a treat to the German racial community. Gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities, and poles were also targeted or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Theodor Geisel, who drew editorial cartoons under the pen name “Dr. Seuss,” was outraged by the news from France and decided to use his cartooning skills to help publicize the plight of the Jews. Dr. Seuss’s wartime cartoon showed discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust was a period of time when Adolf Hitler spread his ideology. He formed a group called the Nazis which were Germans. They hated Jewish people and had the idea that Jewish people ought to die. 6 million Jewish people died during this period of time. The Holocaust started in 1933 and ended in 1945.

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Due to distress within the German community, Adolf Hitler rose to power just before World War II. He became more and more powerful and his influence dispersed nationally. Hitler’s popularity lead him to begin the extermination of anyone Jewish; known today as the Holocaust. Over the years many stories have been told about the Holocaust. Tales of survival and triumph, tribulation and sorrow.

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Lastly Jews were put in an impossible situation, they were basically enclosed in a community, and were forced to work, even if people across Europe tried to help them escape the Nazis would probably catch them

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Their secret of the mass killing of millions would soon be discovered and it would then be their turn for punishment. The Germans took every possible step to disassemble the camps as quickly as possible. They began gassing the Jews at an even faster rate desperately trying to get rid of as many witnesses to their terrible crimes. The Jews were ordered to quickly tear down the camps, and when they had done all they could, they were forced to walk from the camp to another unknown destination. For days on end the Jews would run from the camp, not being allowed to stop for rest or for water.

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Beginning January 30, 1933, when Adolph Hitler came into power as the chancellor of Germany, Germany and Poland began to see the first signs of the most destructive ethnic cleansings of European history. Hitler, as well as the Nazi party, held the belief that those of the Jewish population had diluted the pure German economy and culture. Through a series of political actions and explicit propaganda, Hitler and the Nazi party created a world of anti-Semitic racism with the claim that the Aryan race, or Germans, was supreme in all aspects. The Jewish Holocaust was a genocidal event that included a series of racist persecutions, involving every imaginable violence, not ending until May 8, 1945, with the help of allied forces. Ultimately, the Jewish Holocaust ended with an unthinkable death toll of over six million people belonging to the Jewish faith, with over one million of those deaths being children, and the destruction of more than five thousand Jewish communities.

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After the jewish prisoners were liberated, their lives weren’t going to get back to normal just yet. The Holocaust negatively affected Jewish survivors during World War II because hatred of the Jewish religion had risen, they experienced difficulty resettling, and many were left with debilitating health issues. Nazi propaganda raised hatred toward the Jewish community, which made their lives very difficult following their liberation. With little possibilities of emigration, tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors migrated westward to European countries liberated by Allies. Many people died slowly and painfully after the Holocaust due to disease and starvation.

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The Holocaust was an execution of 8 million Europeans, and “ 6 million of the Europeans killed were Jewish women, children, and men that were brutally murdered” (Strahinich 7). It “was a catastrophe in our modern history” (Strahinich 7) now staining our history pages with hundreds of innocent people’s blood, forever lost in the grounds of the Holocaust. It took “place in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and Czechoslovakia” (Altman 9) is some of the places where hundreds died. Thanks to “Adolf Hitler” (Strahinich 8) and “the Nazis government” (Strahinich 10), they “plunged most of Europe” (Allen 7) into turmoil, taking lives that did not need to go.

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The Holocaust helps to teach us through or mistakes, and has helped to shape the world. The Holocaust took place in 1933 and continued on until 1945. The word Holocaust was used to describe the mass murders because it is derived from a word meaning “a sacrifice by fire”. The man source of murder during this time was by gas chambers and burning of bodies.

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When the liberation of Jews first started, they would pack about eighty Jews into each cattle car. They would leave them will little food, almost no water and no place for them to go to the bathroom. In 1943 The Germans stated that Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III would become separate camps. When you first arrived at the camps, the Men were split apart from Women and Children. Almost all the Women and children were killed upon arrival.

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Jews were moved to the camps to either work or be killed (Veil 113). The Nazis also wanted to keep the children, but only twins because the Nazi scientist wanted to experiment on them (Veil 115). The Nazis had a plan called the System of Death where they told all the Jews that they were going to take showers and clean off and the Nazis took them to a medium sized room where they all stripped down getting ready for showers. The Nazis would then put some Zyklon B pellets into the chamber where it reacted with the oxygen in the air and turned into chlorine gas and all the Jews were dead in minutes. They then would force some other Jews to carry the bodies to the crematorium where the bodies would be

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