October 2019 / Issue 10 / Volume 2
The Darkness of the Holocaust 1933 to 1945
By Marissa LeFevre Block BÂ
Featuring: The beginning of Anti Semitism, The mass Murder, Fighting for Human Rights
1933 to 1945Â
This is a photo of one of the many concentration camps that Jews would be taken to during the Holocaust.
This is a map of where the holocaust occurred and where some of the concentration camps are.
Imagine being forced into a camp full of gas chambers, a place full of disease and a widespread starvation. This is how the Jews of Europe felt during the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a terrifying and disturbing time in history for all European Jews due to the enforced Nuremberg laws, the Nazis killing of millions of people and how the Jews tried to regain equality even after everything that happened.
This were the Nuremburg laws that were established in 1935 by the Nazis
The Beginning of Anti Semitism The Holocaust first started in 1935 when the Nazis established the Nuremberg Laws. These laws took away all the rights that German Jews had. The Nuremberg Laws took away Jews rights to public life and citizenship. Also, German Jews were not allowed to marry Germans. According to Dosomething.org, “Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans.” This shows that they have started to treat Jews differently due to what they believed in. This was the start of the terror that lied ahead for the Jews.
The Mass Murder During the Holocaust�s Jews being 10 year period about 6 taken away by Nazi million people were solders to killed by the Nazis. Jews concentration camps. in places all over Europe were taken to regime during the Second concentration camps, World War.� The holocaust it also known as death now considered the biggest camps. This is where the mass murder in history. The Nazi armies took Jewish Nazis tortured and murdered people to torture, starve the Jews of Europe. and kill them. According to History.com, “Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi A pie chart of the millions of Jew that dies during the Holocaust.
Fighting For Human Rights
After the Holocaust was over, homes because of the hundreds of Jews died after antisemitism (hatred of their first week of freedom. Jews) that persisted in The Jews that were freed and parts of Europe and the remained alive from the trauma they had suffered. concentration camps were Some who returned home afraid to return to their homes feared for their lives.” As due to the trauma they had you can see no matter suffered there. Even after what happened to the Jews everything that happened, they persisted through and Jewish people were still being fought for what they persecuted. But they fought believed in. back and eventually gained This is the star of equal rights for Jews in David. It was Europe. According to symbol for the Jews History.com, “After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former
We must never forget
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