Adriana Losoya
Mrs. Cuevas
English1 5th period
May 8, 2017 Children of the Holocaust Children during the holocaust will always be remembered for the way they were treated by the Nazis , the conditions they lived in , the punishments they faced and their fates .
To begin with the children during the holocaust faced horrific and disturbing treatment by the nazis . First of all they created ghettos to destroy the Jews but they didn’t last long . The majority of them did but then they died down by disease , starvation , being shot , and deported …show more content…
Hitler made a choice to target the disabled first because according to him they were the "Life unworthy of life " . This is when The Euthanasia Program was made which was the first mass murder program made to aim for the disabled . They also made clinics that were actually killing wards . There the medical staff would murder the children by " lethal overdose of medicine or starvation " . Also if there were any infants and children under the age of 3 years old they had to be reported to the medical professionals . The medical professionals and clinic administrators would use the infants and the children over the age of 12 years of age for "medical experiments " , until they decided to use youths up to the age 17 years old . They also extended the killing of disabled to adults and made a " secret " program called T4 . T4 was a program made for adults , which " included six gassing chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas " . The adults were transported there by bus or by trains and would be sent to the gas chambers as soon as they arrived . After they would murder them they would send the families of the deceased a death certificate saying they had died of natural causes . Hitler …show more content…
But those who saved them would face dangerous consequences . Rescuing the Jews took many forms to do . The first to be saved were the Danish Jews because the German police officers wanted to deport all of them . But all went into hiding before they could be deported . Their rescuers were from all different types of religions like , " Protestants , Catholics , Eastern Orthodox , and Muslims " . They would hide the people they saved in " underground networks , European churches , orphanages , and in some cases in their own homes . Unfortunately , there was already some Jews in hiding " such as Anne frank " . In other states there was thousands of Jews being saved . Until two men named Carl Lutz and Giorgio Perlasca posted a Spanish diplomat that helped protect the Jews under neutral powers . Another man named Oskar Schindler protected the Jews from being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Finally another man named Jan Karski reported the mass murderers in the killing centers , which led him to meet the current president of 1943 named Franklin D. Roosevelt . After meeting with the president , he and some US groups went to rescue the jews . When they saved the Jews "
Mrs. Cuevas
English1 5th period
May 8, 2017 Children of the Holocaust Children during the holocaust will always be remembered for the way they were treated by the Nazis , the conditions they lived in , the punishments they faced and their fates .
To begin with the children during the holocaust faced horrific and disturbing treatment by the nazis . First of all they created ghettos to destroy the Jews but they didn’t last long . The majority of them did but then they died down by disease , starvation , being shot , and deported …show more content…
Hitler made a choice to target the disabled first because according to him they were the "Life unworthy of life " . This is when The Euthanasia Program was made which was the first mass murder program made to aim for the disabled . They also made clinics that were actually killing wards . There the medical staff would murder the children by " lethal overdose of medicine or starvation " . Also if there were any infants and children under the age of 3 years old they had to be reported to the medical professionals . The medical professionals and clinic administrators would use the infants and the children over the age of 12 years of age for "medical experiments " , until they decided to use youths up to the age 17 years old . They also extended the killing of disabled to adults and made a " secret " program called T4 . T4 was a program made for adults , which " included six gassing chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas " . The adults were transported there by bus or by trains and would be sent to the gas chambers as soon as they arrived . After they would murder them they would send the families of the deceased a death certificate saying they had died of natural causes . Hitler …show more content…
But those who saved them would face dangerous consequences . Rescuing the Jews took many forms to do . The first to be saved were the Danish Jews because the German police officers wanted to deport all of them . But all went into hiding before they could be deported . Their rescuers were from all different types of religions like , " Protestants , Catholics , Eastern Orthodox , and Muslims " . They would hide the people they saved in " underground networks , European churches , orphanages , and in some cases in their own homes . Unfortunately , there was already some Jews in hiding " such as Anne frank " . In other states there was thousands of Jews being saved . Until two men named Carl Lutz and Giorgio Perlasca posted a Spanish diplomat that helped protect the Jews under neutral powers . Another man named Oskar Schindler protected the Jews from being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Finally another man named Jan Karski reported the mass murderers in the killing centers , which led him to meet the current president of 1943 named Franklin D. Roosevelt . After meeting with the president , he and some US groups went to rescue the jews . When they saved the Jews "