Monday, January 14, 2013

The Holocaust

The selection of the Jews at a concentration camp

The Holocaust


The Holocaust was a mass genocide of about 11 million  Jews, Gays, and Handicapped. The killings of these people were performed by Hitler's Nazi army during the years of World War Two. It was a systematic genocide where Nazis would round up people, mainly Jews, and send them in cattle cars attached to trains to the nearest concentration camp. A concentration camp was a place where Jews were either killed on arrival by either a bullet or gas or were worked to death inside these camps, making munitions and other supply's for Hitler's Army. As Hitler was capturing more and more of Europe, he would find and track down all the Jews in his newly captured town/city/country and send them to theses camps or he would have parts of towns closed off and be built into ghettos. Ghettos were an area of a city where only Jews could live and theses ghettos had extremely terrible conditions, it was disease ridden,full of dead bodies, had little to no food or water,  and there were people cramped into every corner and left to work and die.This to Hitler was called the "Final Solution" , the solution to ending the existence of Jews in the world. 6 million Jews were killed in either camps or ghettos but there were still many more alive in them, and when the Allies invaded Normandy and created a Western front, they began to liberate the Jews from these camps and ghettos as they slowly moved closer to Berlin. Even though some Jews were liberated from the concentration camps, they still had no place to go, no money and  unfortunately in most cases no family or friends. Many found their way into Canada and the United States and tried their best to start new lives. Others were not so lucky and still died in the war.This was the 3rd largest Genocide in human history and one that we will never forget. 

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