Billy Plummer
1/29/17
2"*^ Digital Art
The Liberation o f Auschwitz
Somewhere in the month of April in 1940, something terrible was birthed. A concentration camp known as Auschwitz where Jews were killed and kept under bad conditions. Some were malnourished or riddled with diseases. The camp was run by the Third Reich in the Polish city of
Oswiecim. In it, over 1,100,000 Jews, 140,000 Poles, and 20,000 Gypsies were in the camp but only
200,000 had made it out of the camp, either by liberation or escape. On January 27,1945, Soviet Solders of the First Ukrainian Front fought their way into Auschwitz. They found just fewer than 6,000 prisoners still alive in the camp. Nearby, at the Monowitz slave labor camp, soldiers discovered 600 more. These prisoners had been thought to be too …show more content…
For these people there was no redemption. Only suffering from what had been done.
In current times, it is difficult to explain why the liberation of Auschwitz so important, especially to some of the younger generations. In order understand its importance; they need to be taught about how it impacted the freedom of many Jewish individuals. Since the camp was taken down along with the
Nazi reign, the Jewish people in hiding no longer had to worry about the burden of being taken to
Auschwitz, one of the deadliest concentration camps. They no longer had to be afraid. In my opinion, I think we should have the liberation of Auschwitz as a day of remembrance because of ail the trouble the
Jewish community has been through. Even before the Holocaust, the Jews were the scape goat for everyone in history and were blamed for things throughout history, like the decline of the economy in
Germany before Hitler's reign. Hopefully, with the new year of 2017, the Jewish community will not be blamed for any past, current, or future events that were not their
1/29/17
2"*^ Digital Art
The Liberation o f Auschwitz
Somewhere in the month of April in 1940, something terrible was birthed. A concentration camp known as Auschwitz where Jews were killed and kept under bad conditions. Some were malnourished or riddled with diseases. The camp was run by the Third Reich in the Polish city of
Oswiecim. In it, over 1,100,000 Jews, 140,000 Poles, and 20,000 Gypsies were in the camp but only
200,000 had made it out of the camp, either by liberation or escape. On January 27,1945, Soviet Solders of the First Ukrainian Front fought their way into Auschwitz. They found just fewer than 6,000 prisoners still alive in the camp. Nearby, at the Monowitz slave labor camp, soldiers discovered 600 more. These prisoners had been thought to be too …show more content…
For these people there was no redemption. Only suffering from what had been done.
In current times, it is difficult to explain why the liberation of Auschwitz so important, especially to some of the younger generations. In order understand its importance; they need to be taught about how it impacted the freedom of many Jewish individuals. Since the camp was taken down along with the
Nazi reign, the Jewish people in hiding no longer had to worry about the burden of being taken to
Auschwitz, one of the deadliest concentration camps. They no longer had to be afraid. In my opinion, I think we should have the liberation of Auschwitz as a day of remembrance because of ail the trouble the
Jewish community has been through. Even before the Holocaust, the Jews were the scape goat for everyone in history and were blamed for things throughout history, like the decline of the economy in
Germany before Hitler's reign. Hopefully, with the new year of 2017, the Jewish community will not be blamed for any past, current, or future events that were not their