Jubilee Yu #31

Mrs. Johnson
▪ The time period of the Holocaust lasted from
1941-1945.
▪ The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was
a genocide in which Nazi Germany, aided by its
collaborators, systematically murdered some
six million European Jews—around two-thirds
of the Jewish population of Europe—between
1941 and 1945, during World War II. Jews were
targeted for extermination as part of a larger
event during the Holocaust era, in which
Germany and its collaborators persecuted and
murdered many other people such as mentally
or physically injured, and basically anybody
who wasn’t the "pure" race that Adolf
described as tall, blue eyed, and blond haired.
The night of the broken glass is one of the many horrible
things that went on during the beginning of the
Holocaust. People were dragged outside during the
night and killed, buildings and businesses were all
destroyed, and many windows shattered; that's why it's
called the night of the broken glass.
▪ Imagine one day is perfectly normal. Then the next day,
guards go up to your door and shout at you to pack your bags
and leave. This is what happened for millions of people. If you
were one of the people who have heard about what was going
on and fled to hide somewhere else, chances are you probably
are going to die. Any Jew that was caught hiding in someone
else's family would be killed and the people hosting the Jew
would also be killed. Back to the bags, Jews were loaded in
buses and were herded like animals. Not many even survived
the first few hours of the concentration camps. People were
numbered, shaved, and tortured as they loaded themselves
into the camps. Families were separated, people were shot,
and everything was terrible.
Most women and girls were killed right away. Some
survived. Most of the men and boys that could do labor
were kept and were ordered to work immediately. Food
was very little and was usually a tiny piece of bread and
a tiny bowl of soup. Many died from starvation because
they were working very hard and only getting very little
to eat. Barracks were usually bunk beds with three beds
for a long line and one blanket for each family with an
oven in the middle for heat. Those were the best
sleeping areas. Many slept on the floor and freezed to
death. And everyone was piled up for body heat.
❖ Starvation
❖ Hypothermia
❖ By soldiers
❖ Gas chambers
❖ Suicide
❖ Forced labor
▪ Majority of the survivors from the Holocaust were people
that were just sent to the camps and were only living at the
camps for no more than 10 years. After the war ended, all the
soldiers and people working for the Nazi fled out of the camps
and the prisoners of the camp were left to wait. When the
soldiers finally came to rescue the prisoners, everybody was
crying out of relief. The soldiers then herded them out of the
camps and they were taken to a sort of bunker to live until they
find out where to go. People were crying out of joy when they
ate actual food and many threw up because their body was not
used to so much. They each had a bed, toothbrush, comb,
bedding with pillows and blankets.
The Holocaust is a terrible thing that
happened and it should never happen
again.