Nazi And Rasquo's Horrible Crimes

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During the 1940’s horrible crimes and tortures were committed by the Nazis. The Nazi’s led by Hitler were trying to complete their goal known as the final solution. This goal was to entirely eliminate the Jewish race. The Nazi’s saw them as inferior people who didn’t deserve to live. They looked at Jews as animals not people. During the 1930’s Jews were just treated unfairly by the Germans, but as the years progressed the Germans started to become more harsh on how they treated the Jews. They told Germans not to buy goods from Jewish markets, and they also made the Jews wear a yellow star band letting the Germans know they were Jews. On the night of November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht happened, Germans went around…show more content…
Their were 250 barracks meant to hold 52 horses, but instead they held up to 1,000 Jews in one Barrack. They also had a section of barracks designed for women. There was no running water, and no sanitary equipment, which led to the spread of many diseases. Vermin and insects infested the living quarters and work areas (“The camp of death”). The prisoners were supposed to receive 350 grams of bread, half liter of coffee for breakfast, and one liter of turnip and potato soup for lunch. In addition, four times a week a prisoner was supposed to receive a soup ration of 20 grams of meat, but rarely did the meat ever reach the bowls the prisoners ate out of. The official value of food for prisoners employed was about 1,700 calories and 2,150 for prisoners doing hard labor (Gutman…show more content…
His experience was horrible, “One day as he begged to see his year old son, guards beat him and told him to run” (Holley). He was there for 7 weeks until he was ordered to march to Gorlitz, on the way many of the other Jewish prisoners died from starvation. Russian soldiers liberated the camp on May 15, 1945, nearing starvation he was giving a potato. After that he moved to the U.S. in 1950, along the way he acquired tuberculosis from being in the camp. In 1970 they decided to travel to Israel a life long dream. They stayed for 20 years until they had to move back due to health problems. Nathan Kalman 94 died on Jan 15 from pneumonia nearly 60 years after he walked away from Auschwitz
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