Holocaust Mass Murders

The Holocaust was a long, sad, and depressing period in time. Poland, Soviet Union, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Lithuania, and Holland are some of the countries that were included in the Holocaust. The word “Holocaust”, from the Greek word “holos” (whole) and “kaustas” (buried) was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of nearly 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the second World War.

Babi Yar is a small place with a big story, but it has more to it than what meets the eye. In fall 1941 Germany took control of the city of Kiev, where Babi Yar is located. Hitler had ordered his Nazis to “purify” Russia of all Jews. The first day they that they took control of the city they began to exterminate it of all Jews that were living there. Everyone in the city of Kiev, including Jews and Non- Jews lived in fear. The massacre of the Jews that lived in Kiev began on September 29, 1941. On the outside it is a small ravine outside the city of Kiev, but if you dig deeper you will discover that this forgotten place is the site of the biggest and saddest event in the history of World War II. (World Book Encyclopedia 3).

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, and deliberate persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. It is a word of Greek origin and means “sacrifice by fire” 
Shortly after Adolf Hitler gained power in the Third Reich, he began to implement horrific measures designed to disempower the German Jews from economic and social positions. Life for the Jews became increasingly worse when the onset of WWII came along in 1939. The Germans began to strip the Jews of their lives, and began deporting (or resettling as the public believed) them to the East to Ghettos and later to concentration and extermination camps. At the camps, the Germans either worked the Jews to death or gassed them in massive gas chambers, then destroyed the evidence by burning the copious amounts of bodies at a time in the colossal crematoriums. 
During the six years of the War, there were around 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children that were murdered by the Nazis, and around two million other “undesirables” also exterminated. Hitlers annihilation of the Jews killed one third of the Jewish world population, and two thirds of the European Jewish population.

This is the first death camp where gas was used for murder on a large scale. Everything was set up by Sonderkommando (“Cholmno Extermination”). The main reason for Chelmno was to eliminate most of the Jews from Wartheland (“Chelmno.”). The Jews were notified that they could be sent to Austria or somewhere else and that they would have good lives wherever they were sent. They were sent to take baths so that they were clean and all of the things they had were taken away. The Jews were told they had to get into a car to take them to the bath houses and once they were inside the car and it was started, poisonous gas was released to exterminate the Jews (“Chelmno.”). After the Jews were gassed, their bodies were put into a furnace and turned to ash. When someone had to take the ashes out of the furnace, but they could not keep doing it because of the smoke and the fumes, they were killed. Whatever was remained of the bodies was taken and put into a bag and hauled off to the river during the middle of the night (“The

The Holocaust is a tragic event that took place in Germany, Poland, and many other places. The leader of the Natzies was Aldolf Hitler. He killed between 11-17 million people. Hitler mainly targeted Jews but he also targeted Gypsies, Soliet prisoners of war, Communists, Liberals, Incurables, Jehovahs Witnesses and Homosexuals. Most of hitlers targets got sent to concentration camps where many of them suffered and died.

I know it was war but was it also racism? Judging through the fact Germany was also the enemy, why didn't the U.S bomb them if they were also our enemy in WW2? This is all I have to say. Thousands of innocent Japanese people died which surely ended the war but those people who died also had family and friends. There are hundred of different ways to end the war that is better than killing thousands of innocent people. Not to be mean but the U.S used similar killing strategy that the Nazis used to kill the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned, government-ordered, systematic plan of mass annihilation. As many as six million Jews died, almost two-thirds of the Jews of Europe. Although the Holocaust took place during World War II, the war was not the cause of the Holocaust. The war played a role in covering up the genocide of the Jewish people. How could this have happened? The answers can be found by understanding how violence of this magnitude can evolve out of prejudice based on ignorance, fear, and misunderstanding about minority groups and other

Imagine being forced to live with the fear of being punished or beaten at any second. That is what life was like for the Jews in concentration camps. There are many facts that support the reasons why the Jews were oppressed. They range from how the Jews were mistreated, to the amount of deaths of Jews by the end of the Holocaust. According to historical documents and journals, it is evident that Jews in concentration camps during World War II were severely oppressed.

Beginning in March 1942, a wave of mass murder swept across Europe. During the next 11 months of 9 million Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, an estimated ⅔ was murdered. An estimated 1 million children endured the Holocaust and only 5,000 survived. Children were targeted especially during the holocaust because they could grow up and be a new generation of the Jews. Although not many survived, the ones that did had an incredible story to be told, of how the Holocaust affected and changed their lives. Holocaust Survivor Jeannine Burk was shaped and changed by having to play Hide-and-seek throughout her entire life from the Nazis and suffering as also a lot of pain through Hitler’s domination.

By the time 1945 was coming to an end, the horrors of World War II were only just revealed to the public eye. Racial and religious discrimination was at an all-time high and was the primary reason for the emergence of the Holocaust. Religious bigotry against Jews was the focal point for the Holocaust. Around 6 million Jewish people were killed by the Nazis of Germany through warfare, forced labor, concentration camps, and also mass executions and kill-on-sight orders. Countless of others within the Jewish community that had survived the Holocaust were all permanently changed mentally and physically. Philosophers who have studied the war have classified survivors into 4 major categories: victims, fighters, numbs, and the ones-who-made-it. The first category is a universal category for not just Jewish survivors, but for everyone involved in the War. Everybody had lost something. Everyone was a victim. The experience of the Holocaust on survivors had left mental and physical alterations on the minds of the other three survivor categories, which carried on into future generations.

Jews were systematically murdered in the deadliest genocide in history, which was of part of a border aggregate of acts of oppression and killing of various ethnic and political groups in Europe and under the coordination of the Schutzstaffel, also known as SS. With the direction from the highest leadership of the Nazi party, and every arm Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistic and the carrying out of the mass murders.

A mass murder on an industrial scale: the horrors of the Holocaust were unlike anything the world had seen before. Seeing what a civilized society is capable of doing to other human beings reveals the capacity of evil which humans are capable of. Consequently, 11 million individuals lost their lives due to discrimination, intolerance, and others’ indifference to their suffering, therefore, learning and remembering their stories during the Holocaust is the first step in preventing future genocides from occurring. The systematic murder of Jews began in 1941 with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the use of Gas Chambers, yet discrimination began in 1933 with a national boycott of their businesses and exclusion from various professions. Knowing this allows citizens to recognize warning signs and stand up

The Holocaust was a horrific event in history that will never be forgotten. During the Holocaust, any enemy of Germany, primarily Jewish people, were sent to concentration camps. There, they were put in uncomfortable living quarters, given starving portions of food, and tortured. The main purpose of these camps was to murder any threat to the “pure Germany” that consisted of nothing but Germans. There was one camp that proved to be the worst of all, and that was Auschwitz. Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and there is no wonder why after seeing the terrible things done to these innocent people. Sadly, the horrors started from the minute the prisoners arrived at Auschwitz.

Elie Wiesel once said “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven time sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turn into ash and smoke throughout the night sky.”(“W, Elile”) This is just one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was responsible for the massacre of 11 million people, imprisoning millions of innocent people, inflicting child labor, discrimination against race and religion, and caused the most murders ever recorded.The Holocaust was one of the worst event to happen in the world's history because it was inhumane and cruel, it killed countless lives,

For those who might not understand, I would like to explain who the Einsatzgruppen were. The Einsatzgruppen had a variety of nicknames that they were called. For instance, they were called the killing squads and the mobile killing units. “The Einsatzgruppen were squads composed primarily of German SS and police personnel (ushmm.org)”. “Using a list compiled by the RSHA