Nazis would identify Jews and send them off by train. The Jews would arrive at concentration camps and they’d be divided into two groups. People that were fit enough and able to work were able to live, but the ones who were not able to work would be killed. Hitler would have the Jews shot and killed, but eventually the number of Jews arriving at the camps were increasing and the methods had to change. Hitler started to use gas chambers and he would even burn them. Even the Jews that had been spared to live would work so often and be exposed to the worst conditions that they would often die. Few Jews lived from the concentration camps, in fact it is estimated that at least 6 million Jews died from this. The acts during this time period were eventually named the Holocaust. Not only was this a terrible act against humanity, but it is also considered the worst that humanity has ever seen.
“About a third of the world’s Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and of those who died, a large number had been devout traditional Jews. Their deaths, under such painful circumstances, raised haunting questions about the faith and future of Judaism.”
(Malloy