When Israel was established in 1498, many Jewish people fled to that territory for safety. By 1933, around 170,000 Jewish refugees had migrated to Israel (“Aftermath”). By 1943, the death camps meant for exterminating Jews were closed down . Once the camps closed, prisoners were sent off to walk to the camps in Germany. Many died during these walks, so this journey became known as the “Death March” (“Timeline”).Death Marched took place because Germans wanted to use these prisoners as forced laborers in Germany.
The Jewish people were required to wear the Jewish star or Star of David on them at all times. When they would finally come get them off the train the higher ranking officers decided if you were going to be used for experiments or slave camps. He said the worst camp he ever went was ran by a man that would kill `15 to 20 people a day inhuman ways because the officer said that hanging was too easy for Jews. At this camp he was tattooed with KL which stands for concentration camp in Germany. Max also said his father was killed at this camp.
Jews were blind citied and didn’t realize how bad things were going to get that very few went into hiding during the war. The Jews that remained were forced into ghettos which equaled death. They were dying of infectious diseases, exposure to elements and starvation. The few that were strong n survived in the ghetto were forced to go to Central Square and deported to concentration camps. For the first time in many of these children’s lives, they were forced to confront the concept of what being a Jew meant to them and the society of which they lived.
The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II. There were total of 20,000 concentration camps were they had only one goal and that was to kill Jews and any other race they didn’t like. Nazis killed total of eleven million people and six million were Jews.
al 503) These acts all took place due to Hitler’s discrimination towards the Jews. If you died in the concentration camps they would shuffle up your body along with many others in large carriages disposing dead bodies to their graves, or to the crematories where they were burned to ashes. (Beck et. al 504) “No! He isn’t dead!
Ghettos were also formed to monitor the Jewish population, which were enclosed city districts which the Germans concentrated the Jews. On May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the Allies. The next day was the official end of the war, also called V-E Day. Many of the survivors of the Holocaust, who were left with nothing, went to displaced persons camps set up by the Allied powers. “The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) There have been several attempts to measure the effects of the Holocaust.
It was just about impossible for the survivors of the concentration camps to return to their homes after it ended, the majority of them have lost their families and homes along with being denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors. The following decades the ordinary Germans struggled with the bitter legacy of the Holocaust. The victims and families of the Holocaust sought restitution of wealth and property that was confiscated during the years of the Nazi’s. The beginning of 1953, as for the crimes committed in the Jewish people, and their people the German government was making payments to them as a way of acknowledging the German people's responsibility for the crimes committed in their
Brett Sheehan Mrs. Panasuk Language Arts 12 April 8th 2013 The Shindlers list. The Transformation of Oskar Shindler. Oskar Schindler born April 28 1908, was an German industrialist, German spy, and member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of over 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by having them employed in his enamelware factories, which were located in Poland. He was, again, part of the Nazi party, and the Nazis, under Hitlers rule, were trying to erase all Jewish background, by putting them in camps and taking over any jewish owned businesses. But later on in the war, Oskar didn’t see the jews as a flith to mankind, he seen them as someone, something, that needed help, and that’s when he decided to take a stand
In 1944, at Chelmno, mass cremation and burial of corpses began. Many of these burial pits are still visible today. In a further effort to cover up evidence, the Germans dismantled the gas chambers of Sobibor and Treblinka. Yet, they were unable to work quickly enough to destroy all of the gas chambers at Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The remains of the gas chambers and crematoriums are visible, but in poor condition.
These items (including clothing, eye glasses, medicine, shoes, books, pictures, jewelry, and prayer shawls) would periodically be bundled and shipped back to Germany. Gas Chambers and Crematoria at Auschwitz The people who were sent to the left, which was the majority of those who arrived at Auschwitz, were never told that they had been chosen for death. The entire mass murder system depended on keeping this secret from its victims. If the victims had known they were headed to their death, they would most definitely have fought back. But they didn't know, so the victims latched onto the hope that the Nazis wanted them to believe.