Holocaust+Essay

Minye Chen September 24, 2011 Period: B GD 3 Mr.Harvey

Holocaust The holocaust was the systematic killing of Jews during 1940s. "Holocaust" means "sacrifice by fire." In Greek and “Shoah” means “catastrophe” in Hebrew. Since 1933, the German Nazi party was in power and started dictatorship in under controlled area. The Nazis, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and the other race such as Jews, considered as "inferior". In 1933, there were 9 million Jewish people in Europe but most of Jews lived in the area under the Nazi party control. A large anti-Semitic action evolved. In the same year, the Nazi Germany government deprived of all Jewish civil service from army, position the police and judicial authority. They took the basic rights and then, other rules have issued, such as "A Jew and a non-Jews have sex was seen as a crime". According to the history, in his speech of introducing this law, Hitler told Germany that if "Jewish problem" cannot be solved by these laws, it "must then be handed over by law to the National-Socialist Party for a final solution ” The final solution is the large-scale systematic genocide for Jews. On November 7, 1938,"the Night of Broken Glass" occurred. Jews were attacked and Jewish shop was damaged by Germany, over 7,000 Jewish shops and 1,668 synagogues were destroyed in that event. The final record showed 91 death and 30,000 Jews got hurt. Many Jews were beaten, the Jewish social status more depressed. Germans began the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy to the east on 1942. Then in the same year, Germans completed the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka. After that, the most important part happened, by 1945, the Germans and their partners killed nearly two out of every three European Jews which famous for the final solution and Germany murdered Jews with the permission.Extermination camps were the palace which the Nazi Germany built to killing Jews in order. In the camp, people would be collective cremation or buried to death. In the main camp, European Jews and gypsies were extinction because of being killed. The people was brought here will not survive more than 24 hours.At the extermination camps, they killed Jews with gas chambers. They told them to take a shower but it was the gas chambers and thousands of Jews was killed in it. In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp by train .In addition; they had the “death marches”. The Allied forces moved across Europe and showed some actions to against Germany. They began to encounter the concentration camp and save prisoners from one camp to another.  About 700,000 Jews went to Israel during 1948 to 1951.European Jewish communities totally destroyed during the Holocaust. Luckily, the war finally ended in 1950s. [] []