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The Holocaust
And it's bloody affect on Jews
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Hanna h Hwang ISSUE # 1
The Holocaust
Hannah H. | Issue #1 | C Block Holocaust
Some of the Nazis burned houses and blamed the Communists
Did you know the word “Holocaust” is from the Greek word “holo”, whole and “kaustos”, burnt. The Holocaust, beginning on Jan. 30, 1933 and ending on May 8, 1945 was a horrific event. While under the rule of a ruthless, charismatic leader, Hitler, 6 million Jews were killed in Germany, which had a major effect on the survivors. This had a terrible impact on the left: a map of the people. concentration camps in Europe during ww2
Hitler This is a picture of Hitler when he was a young boy
Adolf Hitler
Generally, Hitler was considered an idol. His “inspiring” and convincing speeches are the reason why most of the community joined the army. But the reason he started the Holocaust had to do with his past. Hitler was born in Austria, 1889. When his brother died, was when he first showed an early interest in German nationalism, which motivated Hitler's later life. After his parent’s death, he dropped out of school and moved. After a while of being homeless, he fought during WW1. After, worked at DAP, and adopted antiSemitic and nationalist ideas. DAP is later called Nazi/ Nazi party. He started making speeches which people started listening to. Some of his “inspiring” speeches persuaded people, especially children who were very vulnerable, to start disliking and even killing Jews.
The Jewish
• Killing centers were essentially death factories. Germans and the police murdered almost 2,700,000 jews. • Jews in the centers either killed by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting • Out of the thousands of jews who went into hiding only 3/4 survived • The holocaust wiped out 63% of the jewish population.
What was left: Here is an image of a pile of human ashes that was found from the Jews in the concentration camps.
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Holocaust Memorial Museum. Web. 05 June 2017.
burning building image hitler as child image killing centers image
Impact on people What was left after the Holocaust was a disaster. A little while after the Holocaust ended, some troops came and scouted the concentration camps. What they discovered were piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes. The remaining survivors had many struggles trying to bring their life back together. People might say the Holocaust was terrible and they would feel sorry for the Jews in Germany, but no one would ever understand how terrible the Holocaust was other than the people who actually experienced the event. Some people thought that they would rather be dead than alive. Ushmm.org describes the aftermath of the Holocaust, “...because of the anti-semitism (hatred of Jews) that persisted in parts of Europe and the trauma they had suffered. Some who returned home feared for their lives. In postwar Poland, for example, there were a number of pogroms (violent anti-Jewish riots). The largest of these occurred in the town of Kielce in 1946 when Polish rioters killed at least 42 Jews and beat many others.” Know you know how poorly Jews were treated by everyone and what came out of that event was even worse.
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"The Aftermath of the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States
"91 Interesting Facts about the Holocaust." Interesting Facts. Web. 05 June 2017.
One way the Jews were killed were in ghettos. According to BBC. co. uk, “...the Nazis moved many hundreds of thousands of Jews into areas very small, overcrowded areas of cities called ghettos. They were not allowed to leave, and if they tried to they would be executed. Many died of starvation because they didn't have enough food, and others of disease because the living conditions were very poor.” Just when you think that that was the worst, there come concentration camps. theholocaustexplained.org explains, “Prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and without any rights. In Nazi Germany after 1933, and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945, concentration camps became a major way in which the Nazis imposed their control.” As you can see, the Holocaust had a major affect on the Jewish.
To conclude, the Holocaust was a horrific event, Germany was under the rule of a ruthless, charismatic leader, Hitler, 6 million Jews were killed in Germany, which had a major effect on the survivors. If you could go back in time, to the Holocaust, what would you do?