The Holocaust was the mass murdering of Jews and other people during World War II by the Nazis. Adolf Hitler, the Nazis dictator, wanted to get rid of all Jews, as part of his plan to conquer the world. By the end of WWII, The Nazis had murdered about 6 million Jews. The killed more than two-thirds of the Jews in Europe (Berenbaum 1). After researching World War II, a tragic event the Holocaust came about where millions of Jewish people were murdered.
The first violence against Germany's Jews happened on the night of November 9, 1938. It was a national riot that burned or damaged more than a thousand synagogues and more than 7,500 Jewish businesses. About 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps that night (Axelrod …show more content…
Jews usually travelled to the death camps by rail, box cars or cattle cars. The first camp that was built for the murdering was in chelmno, Poland. This camp used mobile gas vans to kill Jews.Permanent gas chamber disguised as showers were built in future camps. The chambers were directly connected to the crematoria, so that the dead could easily be moved from the chambers to the ovens. This allowed the Nazis to create factories for the production and removal of corpses (3). The worst death camp was Auschwitz extermination camp, which was located in Poland. Slave labor was used a great amount in the camps. The slaves were underfed, given no medical care, not well clothed and badly sheltered. Most of the time, the Jews were worked to death. Camps like Auschwitz and Majdanek used slave labor and extermination. While other camps, like Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor were dedicated to mass murder. There was in total six camps specially for extermination in German occupied Poland. 21 German occupied countries were affected by the Holocaust (3).
Sometimes before Jews were sent to camps, they were sent to city ghettos. Many Jews thought that the ghettos would last , while the Nazis considered the ghettos as temporary. After the Jews spent time in the ghettos they would then be deported to a camp (Berenbaum
The first violence against Germany's Jews happened on the night of November 9, 1938. It was a national riot that burned or damaged more than a thousand synagogues and more than 7,500 Jewish businesses. About 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps that night (Axelrod …show more content…
Jews usually travelled to the death camps by rail, box cars or cattle cars. The first camp that was built for the murdering was in chelmno, Poland. This camp used mobile gas vans to kill Jews.Permanent gas chamber disguised as showers were built in future camps. The chambers were directly connected to the crematoria, so that the dead could easily be moved from the chambers to the ovens. This allowed the Nazis to create factories for the production and removal of corpses (3). The worst death camp was Auschwitz extermination camp, which was located in Poland. Slave labor was used a great amount in the camps. The slaves were underfed, given no medical care, not well clothed and badly sheltered. Most of the time, the Jews were worked to death. Camps like Auschwitz and Majdanek used slave labor and extermination. While other camps, like Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor were dedicated to mass murder. There was in total six camps specially for extermination in German occupied Poland. 21 German occupied countries were affected by the Holocaust (3).
Sometimes before Jews were sent to camps, they were sent to city ghettos. Many Jews thought that the ghettos would last , while the Nazis considered the ghettos as temporary. After the Jews spent time in the ghettos they would then be deported to a camp (Berenbaum