I pledge to you, my people. We shall never forget! And never again go so sheepishly to such a terrible death.” Sonia Warshaski. In 1930 the Nazi’s were gaining control of Hungary causing them to fall under their influence. In the previous years the Nazi’s helped Hungary regain their land in World War 1. In 1940 Hungary then becomes part of the axis powers. The Axis powers included Italy, Germany, Japan, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. Hungary puts anti-Jewish laws and decrees into place. There were about 825,000 Hungarian Jews in 1941.This is very similar to what Germany does and this leads to Hungary during the war. During the war Germany wants to take the Hungarian Jews or otherwise deport them. Hungary did not want to be involved in the war. The Allied forces were gaining control on the frontline which meant the Axis powers were losing. Hungary tried to talk to the Allied powers to solve peace. In 1944 German forces took over Hungary. Also in 1944 Germans gathered all the Jews up and put them on trains. After they were put on the trains, they were sent straight to the concentration camps. Most of Jews were sent to Auschwitz because it was the designated kill camp. In 1944 the Jewish population in Hungary was 255,000 because most of them were taken to the camps. During spring 1942 Auschwitz became the biggest site for murders of Jews under the Nazi’s plan. It was one of the biggest destinations for the Nazi’s to take all the Jews and exterminate them or work them to death. 1.1 million Life’s were lost including men, children, and women. These 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz and most of them were Jews. Adolf Eichmann is in charge of the deportation of Hungarian Jews. Around the dates May 14 and July 9 about 440,000 Hungarian Jews w...
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...here stories to others. The Holocaust affected the Jews but not just the Jews; it affected the world and the families of the people that had to go through this terrible experience. The holocaust is very important to me because I do not want this to happen again. Just from researching and listening to the survivors of the Holocaust it just sounds terrible and sad.
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The brutality started close to home when fellow Hungarians, in a combined effort with the city government, railroad officials, and law-enforcement agencies coordinated a swift transport of 400,000 Jews to their almost certain death. “In March 1944, the Germans occupied Hungary and in April, they forced the Jews into ghettos. Between May and July, they deported most of Hungarian Jewry to Auschwitz-Birkenau.” German SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann was named chief of the team of deportation experts. “One of the salient points about the deportation of the Jews of Hungary is the extent of the involvement of the local authorities. Eichmann was impressed by the eagerness and zeal of the local auxiliaries.”
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As common knowledge, people normally recognize the term “concentration camp” and immediately refer to the prison camps the Jews were sent to during the Holocaust. In Corrie Tenboom’s famous collective story of her imprisonment, The Hiding Place, she writes in visual description of exactly how the Jews were treated in these camps. Women were forced to stand naked in front of Nazi guards for not much reason at all and made them feel less than human and animalistic. The people were beaten and killed on a regular day basis. One of the worst parts of these camps were the barbaric gas chambers. Men, women, and children would be fooled and dragged into chambers in groups to stand and be slaughtered by the dozen. Concentration camps are what can be known as the cruelest and most barbaric part of World War II history.
The Holocaust not only affected the areas where it took place, it affected the entire world. Even though Jewish people were the main victims in the Holocaust, it also left lasting effects on other groups of people. Both the Nazi and Jewish decedents still feel the aftermath of one of the most horrific counts of genocide that the world has ever encountered. The cries of the victims in concentration camps still ring around the globe today, and they are not easily ignored. Although the Holocaust took place during World War Two, the effects that it had on the world are still prominent today.
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The Holocaust was one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen. More than 1.5 million children were murdered 1.2 Jewish children, along with thousands of gypsy children, and thousands of handicapped children. The effects of the Holocaust can be felt today, not only by what we learn and read, but by those who have endured the pain of the Holocaust and saw their friends and family being tortured and killed. They victims will never forget, they will always remember.
Being confined in a concentration camp was beyond unpleasant. Mortality encumbered the prisons effortlessly. Every day was a struggle for food, survival, and sanity. Fear of being led into the gas chambers or lined up for shooting was a constant. Hard labor and inadequate amounts of rest and nutrition took a toll on prisoners. They also endured beatings from members of the SS, or they were forced to watch the killings of others. “I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (Night Quotes). Small, infrequent, rations of a broth like soup left bodies to perish which in return left no energy for labor. If one wasn’t killed by starvation or exhaustion they were murdered by fellow detainees. It was a survival of the fittest between the Jews. Death seemed to be inevitable, for there were emaciated corpses lying around and the smell...
To begin with the holocaust had a great impact in history even though it was a time of disaster, murder, and discrimination. It was a time in which Adolf Hitler,German politician and Nazi party leader, wanted all Jews suffering or dead. Adolf Hitler turned everyone against the Jews because he believed that they were to wealthy and too powerful so he wanted to eliminate all of them. The Jews went through a lot of suffering and pain. The German soldiers which took commands from their leader, Adolf Hitler, put some Jews to work and killed others. Many Jews didn't get to work they were killed instantly. All women were separated from the man and woman were mostly killed instantly only some got the opportunity to work. The some ways that the jews were killed is that they were put into gas chambers by tons or shot by soldiers. Jews were also dying by starvation dehydration soldiers would not give them enough food or water. They would only want those with blue eyes and blonde hair they discriminated all the others. Soldiers would not only kill the Jews but torture them for anything they did. The Jews would be transported from camp to camp walking even in the worst weather conditions which also many died from it.
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The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
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