They were then sent to Auschwitz, where the first separation of the family occurred. In October of 1944, Anne and Margot were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen near Bergen, Germany. The concentration camp was nothing like Auschwitz, where there were gas chambers. People in Bergen-Belsen were commonly killed by getting shot, starving to death, being hung, or died from an untreated disease. Anne and Margot Frank were named deceased in March of 1945, just weeks before the concentration camp was freed.
“Genocide is the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial or cultural group. During WWII about 6 million Jews were killed the other 5million were homosexuals, gypsies, and etc. The elements that lead to the Holocaust were totalitarism combined with nationalism, the history of anti- Semitism, Hitler’s belief in the master race, and the Final Solution. Totalitarism centralized control by an autocratic authority and political
Jews, Hitler, the Nazi party and other German’s were involved in the holocaust. The Nazi’s decided that the Jewish race needed to be exterminated for no other reason than their ancestry and chosen religion. It first started of with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted. During the Second World War the Nazi’s were planning on killing the entire Jewish population. Of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe at the time before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were perished.
South Serbia was dominated by German rule. According to German calculation during the war, eye witness accounts and the trials at Nuremberg in 1947 after the war ended, those killed in the city of Kragujevac, Serbia, alone totaled between 2,300 and 7,000 people. Among those slaughtered were men, women and children of Jewish, Roma and Serbian descent. Opened in December of 1941 and shut down in September 1944, Sajmiste Concentration Camp was located just outside of Belgrade in the Independent State of Croatia. According to historical accounts, the majority of the Serbians murdered during World War II were executed at Sajmiste Concentration Camp, under Nazi rule.
( ushmm.org ) More than five and a half million Jewish people were killed. Not only Jews, but other groups of people were killed including gypsy, sinti, Polish, homosexuals, disabled people, and Jehovah’s witnesses. ( ushmm.org ) Around eleven million people were killed total during the holocaust. ( ushmm.org ) With Adolf Hitler in command of the German Nazis, he didn’t jump right into killing people. (Gilbert, Martin.
Jackson J. Spielvogel, author of Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History, says, “About 40% of Europe’s 1 million Gypsies were gassed and burned.” Most people think of the Jews being the only people being wiped out in large numbers, but obviously that was not the case. A camp was opened up in Auschwitz-Birkenau sector Blle know as Zigeunerlager or Gypsy camp. In this gypsy family camp the prisoners were forced to wear black triangles. They were given tattoos that stated with the letter ‘z’ followed by camp numbers. For example ‘z2∙9881’ was someone’s number.
In the Holocaust, there were 5.59-5.86 million and in the Rwanda Genocide there were 800,000 and 1,000,000 which could be as high as 20% of their population. In the book Night, there was a scene that showed the mass killings that the Nazis’ committed, they shoved all of the people in death camps and lined them up and killed them. In Hotel Rwanda they lined them up and killed them. Another similarity that they share is the cruelty and the heartlessness that they have. Even when the children were begging to have mercy, they still killed them.
Auschwitz was the largest extermination center in Poland; it was used for the Jews who lived in Germany or other countries occupied by Germany. But overall the Holocaust was responsible for the death of nearly two out of every three European Jews. These people either died from starvation, gas
By the beginning of 1942 the Germans had close to 9 million Jews under their control (out of a total of 11 million Jews living in Europe and the Soviet Union). And, of course, it was their plan to murder them all. Already, the Einsatzgruppen killing squads had machine-gunned 1.5 million Jews, (as we saw in Part 60) but this was not an efficient way of killing so many more millions of people—it was too messy, too slow, and it wasted too many bullets. So the Germans embarked on a policy called the “Final Solution” which was decided upon at a conference held in Wannsee, near Berlin, on January 20, 1942: “Instead of immigration there is now a further possible solution to which the Fuhrer has already signified his consent. Namely deportation
H.I: During the holocaust the German also targeted other groups because of there perceived ``racial inferiority`` like Slavic people, Russians and other. In 1933 the Jewish population stood over nine million. By 1945 Germans and there collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the ``Final Solution``. Atomic Bomb: It was during the final stages of WWII. In 1945 united states conducted two atomic bombs against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.