What Is The Crime Of Being Jewler

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Imagine being separated from you family and made to live with people who had committed he same crime as you. What is this crime? Being jewish. Jews were brought to concentration camp during WWII . The concentration camps were evil.
The living conditions of the camps were terrible. One example of this is “Prisoners were used ruthlessly and without regard to safety at forced labor. Resulting in high mortality rates.¨ (Concentration Camps 1933-1941). Another piece of evidence is “Despite the need for forced labor the SS continued to deliberately mistreat prisoners.¨ (Concentration Camps 1933-1941). Prisoners in the concentration camps were treated unfairly and like they were not humans.
To survive the concentration camps you needed to have friends.One

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