The Holocaust, which was also known as the ‘Ha-Shoah’, that is the Hebrew word for ‘catastrophe’. The Holocaust was the genocide ran by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime in which killed six million Jews during World War 2. The word ‘Holocaust’ originated from the Greek words “Holo” meaning whole and “Kaustos” meaning burned (The Holocaust). The Holocaust began in 1941 and lasted until 1945 during the time of World War 2 and originated in Germany, which then spread across Europe. The Holocaust is one of the 20th century’s greatest and most deadly tragedies that were made with outright fear in known history. The holocaust was an appalling event that occurred in history controlled by the state, where innocent people became victims due to their
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The victims needed to begin their lives all over again by learning how to function every day and supporting themselves financially and mentally. After emancipation, the Jews were afraid to return home due to the traumatic event that they just experienced. Over the course of 7 years after the Holocaust, there were still discoveries of the remains of millions of victims. There were findings of corpses, human bones and ashes left behind. After doing testing and research on the remains of the discoveries, anthropologists concluded that over 90% of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe had been …show more content…
I knew that a lot of people were victimized by this genocide, but I did not know that the number of victims was in the millions. I also didn’t know about the treatment of the children and how they were used as “lab rats” for medical experiments. After finalizing my research, I have found that there are still living survivors of the Holocaust who made it out alive to tell their story. It is because of these survivors, that we know what the inside of these concentration camps look like and what really took place in Germany during World War
The victims needed to begin their lives all over again by learning how to function every day and supporting themselves financially and mentally. After emancipation, the Jews were afraid to return home due to the traumatic event that they just experienced. Over the course of 7 years after the Holocaust, there were still discoveries of the remains of millions of victims. There were findings of corpses, human bones and ashes left behind. After doing testing and research on the remains of the discoveries, anthropologists concluded that over 90% of the Jewish population in Eastern Europe had been …show more content…
I knew that a lot of people were victimized by this genocide, but I did not know that the number of victims was in the millions. I also didn’t know about the treatment of the children and how they were used as “lab rats” for medical experiments. After finalizing my research, I have found that there are still living survivors of the Holocaust who made it out alive to tell their story. It is because of these survivors, that we know what the inside of these concentration camps look like and what really took place in Germany during World War