Lasting Impact of the Holocaust: A Global Perspective

I'm going to tell you a story about how the holocaust has effected millions of people and gave the whole world another point of view about a ethic group.

In 1921 a guy by the name of Adolf Hitler became a leader of a group called the Nazi Party, in 1933 Hitler gained enough support to be offered the job of Chancellor. Hilter passed a law and made himself total dictator, the Nazi party was now in control of Germany. In 1933 Anti Semitic Laws came in place, where Jews had to stop being actors and musicians, if you were in a law school they wouldn't let you take your exams. A few Jewish refugees fled to Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other European Countries. On September 1st Germany invaded Poland. Two days later Britain, and France declared war

10). Jews that came from Italy witch was 300 miles away from Auschwitz had to stand on a train for days without food, water, and a way to go to the bathroom. (Downing p. 16).

Johnson 1 When the men and woman got to anyone of the six death camps they lined up. The woman went one way to get there heads shaved so they could make socks with the hair, half the men got working right away, the other half of men went a different way down a long dark tunnel to the "bathhouse" when the men got to the bath house it was a dark room, they fit as Many men in there at once, as soon as they closed the bathhouse door all the men in there died. It was a gas chamber and the women were right behind them. ( downing pg. 17-20)

Every morning they got up at 4am they made their beds, used the toilets, and went out for roll call. After several hours of roll call they would go to work, anything they did wrong at work would come with a punishment such as getting beat, or death. They worked everyday from 6AM-5PM with a 30 minuet lunch break, most prisoners worked longer hours then that. They would work at three big companies, Siemens, DAW, and . Coal minds, steel and shoes factory's, a cement plant, and a center for defusing unexplored emery bombs are near by jobs Jews would work