The Holocaust

The Holocaust

  • Submitted By: DJAJ123
  • Date Submitted: 11/19/2013 10:45 AM
  • Category: English
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When you think of the holocaust, what do you think about? Is it the millions of Jews lives that were taken? Or is it a great, but wicked speaker named Adolph Hitler? He is probably one of the worst people ever to live. When people talk of evil deeds he is at the top of the list. He was a man of words, and could use them to his advantage. He had an ability to talk and make the Germans believe that the Jews were the reason for the problems in their country; so he gave them the idea to move them out. Then under his command they forced the Jews in death camps.
After Hitler convinced the Germans that the Jews were the center of all problems, he started to make camps to place all the Jews. These camps weren’t nice places to be. They were all used to kill millions of Jews. Auschwitz was the most feared of all. Over 2 million Jews were killed there in ways that aren’t humane, such as shooting them, or gassing them in a chamber, or even burning them alive. This camp even bought little farms and houses for places to kill. They had the ever so famous Little Red house and the Little White house. These were places that they took Jews to kill them.
Just imagine that you were a 14-year-old Jewish boy or girl riding with your family and hundreds of other Jews packed into one tiny rail car and you stop at an unfamiliar place were a man is screaming at you to get out. You have to watch your step getting out of the railcar because there are already dead people on the floor who passed on the trip here. Once you are out you are separated from your family, woman on one-side men on the other. Kids are franticly screaming as they are being torn apart from there mothers, fathers, and siblings. You never see your parents again because they headed towards the gas chambers. This is what first happened when you came to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Auschwitz was established in early World War II in Oswiecim, Poland. The camp is considered one of the worst in the holocaust because of the...

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