Daniela Perez
English 8 Honors Block 4
Mrs. Guidry
8 February 2017
The Holocaust The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jews, and 5-6 million gypsies, handicapped, communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, labor unionists, POW’s, and political prisoners by the German Nazi party and took place during World War II (Strahinich 7). Germans led by their dictator, Adolf Hitler, were just some of the few involved in the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The genocide happened in many places, some of which were Germany and Poland (Auschwitz par. 1). The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated …show more content…
Jews were first moved in 1933, into the camp of Dachau in Munich, which was originally intended for political prisoners. The dead in Dachau were simply thrown on wagons or piled high on the floor, some of them who were discarded were not yet dead and feebly crying out for help (Strahinich 32). The imprisoned Jews were forced to do tough and heavy labor. The cruel officers did on the spot executions to keep the Jews in line. When they had nothing else to work on, the Nazi Party made the Jews perform useless tasks. (Strahinich 33). A concentration camp survivor described the punishments and tasks the officers had them do, “We were set useless tasks to do, like taking stones out of the freezing water of the River Wupper, and hunting for concealed weapons in the sewers… if they wanted information out of you, they would lock you in a metal locker and then kick it, turn it upside down, blow cigarette smoke through its ventilation holes - or worse, before they put you in, they'd make you eat a “Kemna-cut,” which was salt herring smeared with cup-grease. Those who refused to eat them were beaten bloody. Those who ate them and then vomited were forced to eat their vomit” (Strahinich …show more content…
The first liberated camp was on July 23, 1944 and lasted until April of the following year (Strahinich 71). What the soldiers found when during liberation made them sick. They encountered corpses piled high, evidence of torture, starved people, and disease outbreaks left untreated (Strahinich 71). One survivor wrote about his experience as a child in the Holocaust, “One of the people they forced to work that day was an old melamed [Jewish teacher]. The SS pushed pork into his mouth. The melamed spit it out. They kept pushing it in and he kept spitting it out and fighting them. Another SS man took pictures of how they forced a Jew to eat pork on Yom Kippur. Finally the Germans lost patience and shot him and then put the pork sausage in his mouth. He died there, in my presence.“ (Alder 54). The Holocaust was an event that left a dent in our world. The Holocaust was murder and imprisonment of so millions innocent people before they were liberated by the Allied forces. It is something that world should never forget, no matter how much time has
English 8 Honors Block 4
Mrs. Guidry
8 February 2017
The Holocaust The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jews, and 5-6 million gypsies, handicapped, communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, labor unionists, POW’s, and political prisoners by the German Nazi party and took place during World War II (Strahinich 7). Germans led by their dictator, Adolf Hitler, were just some of the few involved in the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The genocide happened in many places, some of which were Germany and Poland (Auschwitz par. 1). The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated …show more content…
Jews were first moved in 1933, into the camp of Dachau in Munich, which was originally intended for political prisoners. The dead in Dachau were simply thrown on wagons or piled high on the floor, some of them who were discarded were not yet dead and feebly crying out for help (Strahinich 32). The imprisoned Jews were forced to do tough and heavy labor. The cruel officers did on the spot executions to keep the Jews in line. When they had nothing else to work on, the Nazi Party made the Jews perform useless tasks. (Strahinich 33). A concentration camp survivor described the punishments and tasks the officers had them do, “We were set useless tasks to do, like taking stones out of the freezing water of the River Wupper, and hunting for concealed weapons in the sewers… if they wanted information out of you, they would lock you in a metal locker and then kick it, turn it upside down, blow cigarette smoke through its ventilation holes - or worse, before they put you in, they'd make you eat a “Kemna-cut,” which was salt herring smeared with cup-grease. Those who refused to eat them were beaten bloody. Those who ate them and then vomited were forced to eat their vomit” (Strahinich …show more content…
The first liberated camp was on July 23, 1944 and lasted until April of the following year (Strahinich 71). What the soldiers found when during liberation made them sick. They encountered corpses piled high, evidence of torture, starved people, and disease outbreaks left untreated (Strahinich 71). One survivor wrote about his experience as a child in the Holocaust, “One of the people they forced to work that day was an old melamed [Jewish teacher]. The SS pushed pork into his mouth. The melamed spit it out. They kept pushing it in and he kept spitting it out and fighting them. Another SS man took pictures of how they forced a Jew to eat pork on Yom Kippur. Finally the Germans lost patience and shot him and then put the pork sausage in his mouth. He died there, in my presence.“ (Alder 54). The Holocaust was an event that left a dent in our world. The Holocaust was murder and imprisonment of so millions innocent people before they were liberated by the Allied forces. It is something that world should never forget, no matter how much time has