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The Holocaust was a systematic; bureaucrat that was approved by the state allowing them to persecution and murder of six million Jews. During this time in Germany Hitler was Dictator and also his Nazi party was in control of the government. In the concentration camps the Jews, Poles, and Gypsies were burnt to an ash after they died. This is because the word Holocaust means “Sacrifice by fire” in Greek. The Nazi political party came to power in 1933 and they influenced the citizens that Germans were more superior (Aryan). They also influenced them to believe that they were the master race. The Nazi believed that the Jews were inferior and also the cause for Germany losing WWI. The Holocaust did not only target the Jews it also targeted the mentally disabled and the physically disabled in a plan they called Euthanasia. This plan was kept hidden from the public only secretly did they know that they were being killed but publicly the disabled people were taken to institutions or hospitals to taken care of.
Ten best articles:
- THE HOLOCAUST This article presents information after the holocaust happened and also information before the holocaust took place. The article is broken up into six different sections which gives the reader a lot of information, and it focuses a lot on Hitler and the Nazi political party. “The wounds of the Holocaust–known in Hebrew as Shoah, or catastrophe–were slow to heal. Survivors of the camps found it nearly impossible to return home, as in many cases they had lost their families and been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors”
- NAZI CAMPS An article created by the holocaust museum it describes why, and who the Nazi targeted during WWII. The section is split up into three different parts first is an overview of Nazi camps, second is forced labor and prisoners of war camps and the third is killing centers. “From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovahs witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior.”
- FORCED LABOR: AN OVERVIEW Explains to the reader the vast problems that the prisoners had to deal with while stuck in the camps. The concentration camps had Labor that was terrible and so were the conditions that the workers worked in. the camps “forced labor—often pointless and humiliating, and imposed without proper equipment, clothing, nourishment, or rest—formed a core part of the concentration camp regimen.”
- PERSECUTION OF THE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY ILL The article focuses on the reason why Hitler executed the disabled and the sterilization in Germany. It also shared information that Germany was not the only country sterilizing people at the time so was the U. S. this article taught me something I would have never known about from a text book reading. “Before Hitler, the United States led the world in forced sterilizations. Between 1907 and 1939, more than 30,000 people in twenty-nine states were sterilized, many of them unknowingly or against their will, while they were incarcerated in prisons or institutions for the mentally ill. Nearly half the operations were carried out in California
- AMERICAS RESPONSE TO THE HOLOCAUST When we hear of the Holocaust we never really think about what the other countries did to help an aid the Jewish culture from be killed. We never expected to hear that the U.S helped save 25,975 Jews through immigration, and how the Government secretly made a plan to save the Jews from the concentration camps. “Finally, on January 22, 1944, the president issued Executive Order 9417, creating the War Refugee Board (WRB).”
- THE HOLOCAUST JUST GOT MORE SHOCKING Eric Lichtblau informs the information that was found by the Holocaust Museum about the amount of ghettos and also camps that Germany had during WWII. Every camp and Ghetto was filled to the max with walking skeletons that worked all day with no nutrition. “The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.”
- THE SS A army created by Hitler to be used as personal bodyguards. This army was Hitler’s most trustful army and they were used to command and control the concentration camps. It talks mainly about the background details that people do not know about the SS but they should because they played a big role in controlling and killing all the Jews. “Founded in 1925, the “Schutzstaffel,” German for “Protective Echelon,” initially served as Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler’s (1889-1945) personal bodyguards, and later became one of the most powerful and feared organizations in all of Nazi Germany.”
- THE “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS” Kristallnacht was the day where the Nazi political party planned for citizens an also soldiers to attack Jewish buildings, stores, and houses. It gets the name “night of broken glass” because of all the glass found in the streets after people terrorized the buildings that Jewish people used or owned. “In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by.”
- AUSCHWITZ Is the largest concentration camp that was built by Germany to house and kill thousands of Jews during WWII. Auschwitz had four gas chambers that could each hold up to 2,000 people at one time. The camp had three different sections to it, and it is also where they conducted experiments to Jewish man to see how fast they would die and how painful it would be. “A sign over the entrance to the camp read ARBEIT MACHT FREI, which means ‘work makes one free.’ In actuality, the opposite was true.”
- THE NUREMBERG TRIALS The trials were to bring justice to those who died and were affected by the Holocaust. The trials targeted high ranked German generals, and doctors that were part of the creation of the Holocaust. They were all convicted for crimes against humanity. “The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.”
Video and Audios
Holocaust Atrocities
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps to ever be created by the Nazi's. It was created in 1941 and closed in 1944 when allied powers beat Germany. What they found was horrific there were dead bodies scattered everywhere and it was too late to save them. Towns people were allowed to come see the bodies and it made them emotional to see people who caused no pain to others were killed because of Hitler. They also talk about the gas chambers and how they made them look somuch like actual shower rooms but instead people would suffer for ten minutes before they died.
Dachau was one of the first concentration camps to ever be created by the Nazi's. It was created in 1941 and closed in 1944 when allied powers beat Germany. What they found was horrific there were dead bodies scattered everywhere and it was too late to save them. Towns people were allowed to come see the bodies and it made them emotional to see people who caused no pain to others were killed because of Hitler. They also talk about the gas chambers and how they made them look somuch like actual shower rooms but instead people would suffer for ten minutes before they died.
Concentration Camps
This is a video of a Holocaust veteran who shared what he went through and what he saw when he arrived to a concentration camps days after it was liberated by the U.S. He was shocked that all this happened in secrecy and it changed his life because he wanted to inform others about the atrocities that he saw. he said "i want to share to people my story, and what i saw." He wanted to inform people after the war of what he went through and also the pain the Jewish people went through.
This is a video of a Holocaust veteran who shared what he went through and what he saw when he arrived to a concentration camps days after it was liberated by the U.S. He was shocked that all this happened in secrecy and it changed his life because he wanted to inform others about the atrocities that he saw. he said "i want to share to people my story, and what i saw." He wanted to inform people after the war of what he went through and also the pain the Jewish people went through.
Historical Holocaust Film Footage
This is very rare footage of the German mobile killing units also known as the Einsatzgruppen. In this video you can see that the Jews are put into large ditches and shot. The reason for the ditches is to make it easier for them to bury them after they die. You also notice that the men people killed are in nice clothing, are well fed and show no resistance. It is insisted that they were never sent to concentration camps and they were killed right away.
This is very rare footage of the German mobile killing units also known as the Einsatzgruppen. In this video you can see that the Jews are put into large ditches and shot. The reason for the ditches is to make it easier for them to bury them after they die. You also notice that the men people killed are in nice clothing, are well fed and show no resistance. It is insisted that they were never sent to concentration camps and they were killed right away.
primary sources
This is the execution wall in the concentration camp Auschwitz. On this wall the SS soldiers would kills Jews if they went against an order or stole bread. This wall was used to strike fear into the other prisoners in order to make sure that they would not fight back against the soldiers or even attempt to.
Testimonies from Auschwitz SS-Men
First hand accounts from the SS-Men who were working at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Detailing the work they were asked to do and the state of the Jewish men and women as they entered the camps. The first hand accounts help provide a clearer sense of what the terrible conditions in the Auschwitz was like.
First hand accounts from the SS-Men who were working at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Detailing the work they were asked to do and the state of the Jewish men and women as they entered the camps. The first hand accounts help provide a clearer sense of what the terrible conditions in the Auschwitz was like.
ANNE FRANK
Is considered a symbol for the children who were killed by the Holocaust. In her diary Anne Frank describes the life she had while hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne and her family were found hiding and were bordered on the last train to Auschwitz. at the camp her family was split up and she was moved to a different camp with her sister in 1944. in 1945 Margot died of typhus. a month later Anne died of the same disease, but only a month after her death Bergen - Belsen was liberated. The book was published by her father.
Is considered a symbol for the children who were killed by the Holocaust. In her diary Anne Frank describes the life she had while hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne and her family were found hiding and were bordered on the last train to Auschwitz. at the camp her family was split up and she was moved to a different camp with her sister in 1944. in 1945 Margot died of typhus. a month later Anne died of the same disease, but only a month after her death Bergen - Belsen was liberated. The book was published by her father.
FIVE MILLION FORGOTTEN
Terese Pencak Schwartz, a Polish American Jew who was born in Germany states in the article that when people here the holocaust they only think of Jewish people not about the Gypsies, poles, or the disabled. He was very surprised at the fact that people only think that Jewish people were affected by the Holocaust but it is not true. He speaks about his opinion of what society puts into the brains of the public. They explicitly talk more about the Jews then they do any other group of people in the concentration camps. "But what about 'the others'? there were five million of them. who were they? Whose children, whose mothers or fathers were they? How could five million human beings be killed and forgotten?" These are questions he raises and they are also the question that his article if formed around, and written about.
Terese Pencak Schwartz, a Polish American Jew who was born in Germany states in the article that when people here the holocaust they only think of Jewish people not about the Gypsies, poles, or the disabled. He was very surprised at the fact that people only think that Jewish people were affected by the Holocaust but it is not true. He speaks about his opinion of what society puts into the brains of the public. They explicitly talk more about the Jews then they do any other group of people in the concentration camps. "But what about 'the others'? there were five million of them. who were they? Whose children, whose mothers or fathers were they? How could five million human beings be killed and forgotten?" These are questions he raises and they are also the question that his article if formed around, and written about.
Liberation and Revenge First hand accounts of the Soviet invasion of the Auschwitz death camp. The accounts vary from 10 year old children to 35 year old women, but the reactions are all unbelievably interlinked despite the difference in age “We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human worth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”
– Eva Mozes Kor, age 10, child survivor of Auschwitz
– Eva Mozes Kor, age 10, child survivor of Auschwitz
maps
This is a map from Theresienstadt that was built in 1942 and was liberated in 1945. This is an original map drawn to show how the camp would come out. It is a map of the concentration camp and how it was built. It is a blue print for the camp.
The map above shows where extermination camps, concentration camps, and ghettos were located. You can see the the purple arrows all point to the extermination camps and that is because all the Jewish people from the surrounding area are sent there to be killed. There is also more extermination camps then there are concentration camps.
The map above also hows the location of Extermination camps and concentration camps. But this one has the location of the capitol cities. It is noticeable that the concentration camps were located near the capitol city or near the border of the country. This was because they had to send supplies to the camps so they would put them near the capitol city or border because it would be easier and faster for them to deliver the supplies needed to keep the camp working.
The map above shows where and how the Germans would deport the Jews from the Ghettos into either the concentration camps, or the extermination camps. Its noticeable that they would take Jews from three different Ghettos in one train and bring them to a extermination camp.
This is a detailed map of the largest concentration camp ever created Auschwitz. This was a original map and blue print of the concentration camp. It shows specifically where everything is, and you can even see by the mapping of the camp that it was huge especially since it has the three different camps.