The Holocaust: Hitler's Final Solution
The Nazis followed Adolf Hitler’s “final solution”, which is known as The Holocaust. However, the mass murder of Jews and others led up to and was during World War II. The Holocaust was a period of time when the Jews of Europe were the primary targets of persecution; there were other people who were persecuted such as European Gypsies. The Holocaust is genocide because most of the victims were killed because they belonged to a racial or religious group that the Nazis wanted to wipe out, or they spoke out against Hitler. The Nazis killed their victims in concentration camps, gas chambers, death marches, and trains. Many also died due to disease, suicide, and starvation. Overall, the Holocaust was the mass murder of about six million Jews plus millions of others, during World War II.
An example of one of the many concentration camps is the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Oświęcim, Poland. It was established in 1940 by Germans and is made of three parts.
Auschwitz I: It was the largest of the German …show more content…
During her imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was herded naked into a gas chamber with hundreds of others. She walked out of the gas chamber alive, and she did not know that the Nazis were trying to kill her until a woman said that she was just in the gas chamber. Before she was in Auschwitz, she was sent to Plaszow concentration camp where she survived for two and a half years, until she was marched to another camp. She also survived testing by Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi Doctor. She was in Auschwitz for two months, until she was sent on a death march to Buchenwald and then to Belsen. In Belsen, she shared a barracks with Anne Frank. When Belsen was liberated she showed a young British officer around the makeshift hospital where she worked, and six months later, they got married. To this day, she is still haunted by the deaths of others, and feels as if her families’ and others’ ghosts are haunting
An example of one of the many concentration camps is the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Oświęcim, Poland. It was established in 1940 by Germans and is made of three parts.
Auschwitz I: It was the largest of the German …show more content…
During her imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was herded naked into a gas chamber with hundreds of others. She walked out of the gas chamber alive, and she did not know that the Nazis were trying to kill her until a woman said that she was just in the gas chamber. Before she was in Auschwitz, she was sent to Plaszow concentration camp where she survived for two and a half years, until she was marched to another camp. She also survived testing by Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi Doctor. She was in Auschwitz for two months, until she was sent on a death march to Buchenwald and then to Belsen. In Belsen, she shared a barracks with Anne Frank. When Belsen was liberated she showed a young British officer around the makeshift hospital where she worked, and six months later, they got married. To this day, she is still haunted by the deaths of others, and feels as if her families’ and others’ ghosts are haunting