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NEVER AGAIN
Jewish children in a concentration camp
Introduction The Holocaust was one of the darkest times in the history of the world and still has an impact on the us today. During the Holocaust, Hitler wanted religious purity because he thought all of Germany’s problems were caused by the Jewish. He tried to eliminate all Jews from his country. The holocaust was a tragic event in history because families were taken from their homes to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, and children were separated from their families, and millions of people were killed.
During the rule of Hitler and the Nazis, Jews were required by law to wear armbands so they could be identified as Jews.
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6 million Jews. Dead During the Holocaust, Hitler killed millions of Jews and others. Hitler killed between 5 and 6 million jews using mostly concentration camps and ghettos. Nazi soldiers also marched into areas where there was a larger Jewish population and killed people at random. According to projeteladin.org, “About half of the Jewish victims died in concentration camps or death camps such as Auschwitz. The other half died when Nazi soldiers marched into many large and small towns in Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union and other areas and murdered people by the dozens or by the hundreds.” Hitler didn’t just kill Jews, according to the Jewish Virtual Library, “Although Jews were the primary victims of the Nazi's evil, many other groups were targeted based on both racial and political grounds. Other groups singled out by the Nazis included LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Roma (gypsies), Poles and other Slavic peoples, Jehovah's Witnesses, and members of political opposition groups.” Hitler wanted purity in his country, so he killed everyone he felt wasn’t “pure.” one of the most known ways Hitler killed people, was with concentration or death camps.
Auschwitz One of the most well known and largest concentration/death camps was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was used in Hitler’s policy later in WW2 called the “Final Solution”. According to History.com “Hitler was determined not just to isolate Jews in Germany and countries annexed by the Nazis, subjecting them to dehumanizing regulations and random acts of violence. Instead, he became convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain, along with artists, educators, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and others deemed unfit for This map shows where the different survival in Nazi Germany.” Death camps concentration camps and death camps were, were different from concentration camps including Auschwitz because in death camps, the only purpose was to kill jews. In concentration camps, the jews and others were taken prisoner and forced to work and were punished in many ways. During WW2, more that 1 million people were !2
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killed in Auschwitz from 1939-1945. According to History.com “In January 1945, with the Soviet army approaching, Nazi officials ordered the camp abandoned and sent an estimated 60,000 prisoners on a forced march to other locations. When the Soviets entered Auschwitz, they found thousands of emaciated detainees and piles of corpses left behind.” in these concentration camps and death camps, families were separated and children were separated from their families.
Children During the holocaust, children were taken from their families in concentration/death camps and killed. Most of the jews killed in WW2 were children. According to ushmm.org, “When World War II began in September 1939, there were approximately 1.6 million Jewish children living in the territories that the German armies or their allies would occupy. When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, more than 1 million and perhaps as many as 1.5 million Jewish children were dead, targeted victims in the Nazis’ calculated program of genocide” the people unable to work, such as children, elderly, or pregnant women, were considered “useless eaters” according to ushmm.org, “All Jews were targeted for death, but the mortality rate for children was especially high. Only 6 to 11% of Europe’s prewar Jewish population of children survived as compared with 33% of the adults. The young generally were not selected for forced labor, and the Nazis often carried out “children’s actions” to reduce the number of “useless eaters” in the ghettos. In the camps, children, the elderly, and pregnant women routinely were sent to the gas chambers immediately after arrival.” The Nazis killed the people unable to work before killing the people who were able to work.
Never Again The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. Million of people were killed, families were taken from their homes to concentration camps, and children were separated from their families. How can the world guarantee something as horrible as the Holocaust doesn't happen again and what can we do if it does?
People being forced to march by Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz
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