Research Paper Ethan Do The Nazis disposed of the Jewish people in many atrocious manners as displayed in the personal reflection of Elie Wisel in his book Night. The ways that the Jews were horrifically murdered was the gassing and shooting. However, those were not the only methods of how the Jews died. They died from a lack of malnutrition and other diseases that were caused by the abhorrent surroundings. There were so many crematoriums during World War II that the Nazis had developed.
The Holocaust started with Kristallnacht, which is “the Night of Broken Glass.” This occurred on November 7th, 1938. Over 7,000 Jewish shops were vandalized, synagogues were destroyed, and at least 91 people died. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps, but were released eventually. From 1933 to 1945, Jews were sent to concentration camps, these were used as a way to exterminate the Jewish population. In the beginning of the Holocaust, many people were sent to labor camps but died of infections or from working so much.
The Holocaust happened for many different reasons. It was the killing of an extremely large group of people committed by 1930s-50s German Nazis against the Eastern-European Jews. Although anti-Semitism had been around for centuries it escalated massively during Hitler’s time in power and World War Two due to the Perversion of Darwin’s theory. Although there were many causes of the Holocaust, most of the causes were long term. The long-term causes were from the Middle Ages up until 1939 when the Holocaust properly began.
The people in the church were taken to a death camp where they were gassed and buried in mass graves. He and 150 people were taken to the Lodz, but then the ghetto population demanded to hand over the 10,000 children Arek managed to hide in a commentary. The remaining kids were also taken to the death camp and gassed. Arek was then accepted in the orphanage where he worked in the textile mill and was able to find food he stayed there for two years. In 1944 the Germans decided to clear up the Lodz ghetto completely because the Russian army was getting closer.
Urges Zuckerman to start a partisan attack that would a) reconnaissance (scouting out the region to locate Germans) and b) obtaining weapons. 2,000 Nazis came into the Ghetto to stop the resistance, and miraculously the Jewish fighters held out for four weeks. Germans lit and blew up many buildings. Some managed to escape threw sewers or stay hidden in the rubble and remain hidden in buildings, but more or less everyone was killed. Why has the Warsaw Ghetto become such a potent symbol of the Holocaust?
Between April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the bodies, but eventually the British had to resort to bulldozers to push the thousands of bodies into mass graves because they were too many. After evacuating Bergen-Belsen, British forces burned down the whole camp to prevent the spread of typhus. Judy Rosenzweig prisoner of Bergen Belsen describes the liberation: "All of a sudden out of the blue sky we saw tanks rolling into the camp…We had no idea what kind of tanks they were. Is it the Americans?
However a lot of German people ignored these signs as they liked shopping in Jewish shops as they liked the bargains. Some ignored the signs purely for the fact that they wanted to get their shopping out of the way to carry on with the rest of their Saturday. Being a Saturday meant that a lot of the smaller local Jewish shops were already closed due to the Sabbath Day. Alongside the SA men picketing shops Goebbels gave an angry speech in front of thousands of people denouncing the Jews. This speech was broadcast on all the German radio stations meaning that everyone could hear it, meaning everyone would now know what the Nazis think of the Jews if they didn’t already know.
Anastasia Toth History 295 Holocaust: Final Solution Book Review: Witness to the Holocaust Witness to the Holocaust is an emotional journey, one made even more impactful because section one covers the people who were in the camps. These were the people, who saw the most death and destruction of their families. It is such a vivid description of ugly that I had to put it down on a couple of occasions and reset myself. It was almost too painful to take in, all the horror, that these survivors with stood. Take the works of Sam Bankhalter and what he said, “Once you start fighting for your life, all the ethics were gone.
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
First of all, I was in the third grade when this happened. I honestly had no idea what this really meant, but I can still remember seeing everyone at my school crying because at that point nobody knew what else was bound to happen. The teacher got everybody’s attention in the classroom and explained that there was a terrorists attack on our country. She couldn’t help but to cry while she was telling us this tragic story. Everyone in the classroom started crying even though we weren’t really sure what was going on.