The Holocaust: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust is known as the genocide In which Adolf Hitlers Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million jews. Out of those six million jews one million jewish children were killed, along with many other groups. For example homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Jehovah witnesses, and communists were all victims of this mass genocide. Along with the five million jews killed ,six million non jewish victims were victims of the Nazi mass murders. The Nazis would storm into synagogues filled with jews and bring them to concentration camps filled with children and adults. Also, everyone was required to have identity papers and if you were stamped with the letter J on your identity card you were given over to the Nazis. In other countries the Jews were dressed traditionally and the locals could usually point out the jews, then when thrown into the camps they had to wear a yellow star representing they are Jewish. Countries involved in this Holocaust are Poland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Belgium ,Romania, the UK, and more located in Europe. In Poland about three hundred thousand Polish Jews lived in most of the urban areas in Poland. Large Jewish communities flourished and maintained their own language, culture, religious and social structures.The polish were one of the most welcoming towards the jews …show more content…
The Holocaust was all based on Hitler and his view of the Jews and how he saw them as a great enemy towards the German people. Hitler wanted to expand Germany so he focused on eastern Europe aiming to defeat Poland and the Soviet Union. Hitler began deporting Jews for use of slave labour or murdering them, the other conquered territories were to be colonized by German settlers. Later Hitler moved his plans forward and by January 1942 he decided to kill the jews, Slavs, and other deportees that were considered