The holocaust
1933-1945 How jewish people suffered By:Patrick - D block
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THE HOLOCAUST Lexicon for the holocaust *Concentration camps *Krakow getto *Hitler *Gas chambers *Auschwitz *Amon Goeth *Muselmanners *The Wieliczka salt mine *B-3087 (Prisoner camp and #) *Death march *Roll Call *Buchenwald *Bergen Belson *Gross Rossen *Dachau
HOW JEWISH PEOPLE SUFFERED jewish people were impacted many different ways before, during, and after the torture they experienced while the holocaust was happening. People were beaten and killed for nothing. They were starved and worked to death (for most people) inside the concentration camps. The holocaust was a huge part of WW2 and took place from 1934-1945. The holocaust was an important part of history and impacted many people, as they suffered before entering the camps, while in the camps, and after the war ended. Jewish people were suffering before they were taken to concentration camps. They suffered many different ways. Some very sad and terrifying. Jewish people were taken away from their families and taken to concentration camps where they were tortured. The nazis limited their food supply in the ghettos they had taken over and they took jewish people off the streets and from their homes to go to
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Map of concentration camps The concentration and death camps were located all through Germany. When they had to move jewish people to different camps they would either take a train or march. The only time they marched is when the trains were needed for reinforcements during the game. The death camps were Auschwitz, Birkenau, Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdenek, and Belzec. The concentration camps were Vught, Neuengamme, Bergen Belsen, Ravensbrück, Stutthof, Sachenhausen, Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Naztweiler, Dachau, Theresienstadt, and Mauthausen.
concentration camps. Jewish people had a late night curfew to. They had to stay in their houses after a certain time. For most ghettos the germans had taken control of, the late night curfew would take place at 9:00 P.M. This meant that after 9 o’clock jewish people were not allowed to leave their house. If they did, they were to be shot on the spot. This was one way jewish people suffered before they went to a concentration camp. But there were many other ways they suffered also. Jewish people had extremely limited food supply. Jewish people starved because the nazis would not let them get food. You were lucky if you found extra bread in a bakery or something. When jewish people were separated from their families because the nazis would take random people off the streets no matter who they were and they would never see their family again. “poor quality food, absence of medical supplies and facilities – this was the lot of the ghetto dweller. And most of those ghetto dwellers also shared a common end. They died of starvation, disease and exhaustion within the ghetto, or at shooting pits and death camps outside of it.” From Jewish Ghettos During The Holocaust Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2017. This supports my evidence Because it shows how the jewish people in the ghettos that nazis had taken control of and how they limited their food supply and that they suffered from starvation. But this wasn’t the only time/way that jewish people suffered, the jewish people inside the concentration camps suffered greatly.
Once the jewish people had entered the concentration camps, they suffered greatly in many different ways, but they far worse then before the jewish people entered the concentration camps. When Jewish people arrived at the camps, they were separated into 2 groups, the people who can work and the people who will be sent to the gas chambers to be gassed to death. If you made it past the gas chambers, you were starved and worked to death. (for most). During the
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concentration camps, people got dry bread and watery soup for every meal. People would starve because they would have to work all day every day and they didn’t have the energy to work so the nazis would kill them cause they couldn’t work. The jewish people had to do work that was horrible. They were told to mine for salt and build barracks and break stones and much more. If they didn’t do this, they would be killed or hanged or whipped. Even small crimes like a missing button on your prisoner uniform would get you whipped. They were also tortured by the nazis making them march from camp to camp because the train cars were being used as reinforcements for the war. The nazis made you march to another camp in the freezing cold or the boiling sun whether you had shoes or not. They gave you only tiny bits of food to last you the amount of time it took you to march from the camp. If
you walked too slowly, the nazis would shoot you and leave you there on the road dead. “without muscles or fat,due to the food shortage…” according to the gate to hell, Auschwitz. Auschwitz, Nazi Death Camp. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2017. This supports my evidence because it shows how the Nazis limited the food supply for jewish people. But jewish people also suffered after the concentration camps, but it wasn’t as bad as the torture inside the camps. The jewish people (who had survived the camps) only had some time to recover from the camps then they were on their own. The jewish people got food and beds and other things they needed from the allies and other people and they recovered, but once they had to leave and live their life again, they had no place to go. Here’s why. Most of the jewish people who had survived the camp didn’t have any family left because they were either dead or they had been separated from them. So they were left on the streets. Also, even if they did find a place to live, it was hard for them to find jobs because they had no money. Also, most job opportunities back were in america. Most people didn’t have the money travel to america, all though there was a program that helped jewish people get to america, once they got there, they were stuck with the same problem. No family or money to start a family or job. “With few possibilities for emigration, tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories.”- "The Aftermath of the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 02 June 2017. This shows how many many jewish people were left homeless and had to try and find a place to live. This shows how jewish people suffered after the war. (for the people who survived the war). The holocaust was an important part of history and impacted many people, as they suffered before entering the camps, while in the camps, and after the war ended. These three pieces of evidence support my thesis and show how jewish people of all ages suffered before, during, and after the war/concentration camps. Do you think this war would of had a different outcome if the UN had acted earlier? Do you think that more jewish people could’ve survived if they did act earlier?
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