They found destroyed gas chambers and crematoriums, very sick and hungry prisoners, and piles of deceased Jews. The Allied Forces tried to transport the Jews away from the concentration camps, but about 7,000 Jews were either too sick or hungry to walk (Allen
Adam Suraz 08/20/13 Us History Ap Holocaust When a person thinks about the Holocaust, they think about the atrocity’s that happen inside there. The holocaust was when the lives of many Jews were taken. They were torture in camps and killed for no good reason. Adolf Hitler played a huge role in these killings. The Holocaust museums takes the viewer into the life of a Jew during these darker times.
The death camps were mentally inhumane on the prisoners; especially during the first few days because most inmates had some to all of their family taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones left to be killed. Elie Wiesel talks about the last time he saw his mother and sister and how when he left the train he and the others were forced into groups with, “‘Men to the left! Women to the right’ Eight words spoken quietly in differently, without emotion. Eight simple short words, yet that was the moment when I left my mother… I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).
| 1 in 5 people lost their jobs because many buildings were destroyed, Haiti’s large industry clothing was one of the worst affected, and were a lot of people lost their jobs. | 250,000 homes, 30,000 other building were either destroyed or badly damaged this included the presidents palace and around 60% of the government buildings. | Because of the large number of deaths the hospitals reached their capacity and bodies had to be piled up out on the streets. | Transport and communication links were badly damaged and destroyed, things like bridges. | The amount of bodies out on the street caused a lot of diseases to spread, diseases like, cholera.
Under Joseph Stalin, millions of prisoners in these camps died from starvation and abuse.” Ivan Denisovich, a survivor of these has gone through these camps for ten years. Many people could not endure this type of pain, bur Ivan did. Overall Ivan has gone through things people shouldn’t have to. Not many people know about the gulags, but they should because these people went through the same amount of pain as the holocaust. Ivan was beat senselessly and one could not even begin to imagine what they went through.
Desensitized by Numbers There were many effects on people, not just soldiers, after World War I had ended. So many people died in such an impersonal war that humans, in parts of the world, were desensitized by the numbers of casualties and thought human life was dispensable. This feeling erupted in Germany in the form of the Holocaust. Daily, people would get readings of maybe 150,000 to 200,000 dying in a single battle that didn’t move the line of control more than 10 miles either way. Elie Wiesel shows the horrors of inhumanity in his novel, Night, a true story of his experiences in the concentration camps.
World War 2 was a “total war” involving every nations which at the war. We can see that on the table, a total of 38,380 servicemen were lost in the war, also over 67,100 citizens killed on their homeland. Despite the death, there were 60,000 Britons were disabled. From those data, we know that not only the soldiers were killed at the war, the citizens also were killed. The data reflected that the number of civilians’ death was more than World War 1.
A lot of houses, buildings, cars and other vehicles will be ruined and people can be killed. When a hurricane is done, it rains very hard. Some hurricanes may cause floods or landslides depending on how much water falls. Hurricane Sandy has been one of the most recent hurricanes that have hit the US in the past 15 years. Hurricane Sandy destroyed millions of homes, brought a bunch of sand onto the roads, and killed 209 people.
The image of this young girl is immediately apparent in Anne’s first diary entry. The reader straight away feels like they are in the position of being Anne’s friend she states; “I hope I will be able to confide everything in you and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” This however proves to be false. Anne’s refutation of the happening world events causes her to befriend her diary. This naïve girl is further demonstrated through her childish approach to her families’ need to go into hiding saying “That was it. May these sombre words not come true for as long as possible”.
The streets were littered with the dead. So many people died that the government had trouble burying all of the bodies. They were forced to dig large pits and create mass burials. Another major area hit hard by the earthquake was the economy. People were starving.