The Holocaust : The Survivors Of Jews And The Holocaust

During the reign of the Third Reich, the symbolization of the pink triangle was used to identify the thousands of gay prisoners who were sent to extermination camps under Paragraph 175, the law that criminalized homosexuality between men. Researchers say that an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 gay men died in these camps, however this figure does not include those who were interned and later released, let alone those who died undocumented and forever forgotten to history.¹ These thousands of men were forced through excruciating cruelties with little to no reprieve or recognition of the atrocities perpetrated against them. It is because of this that while they are not a distinct racial, ethnic, or religious group, the treatment of those who bore the pink triangle during the Holocaust follows the genocidal process and as such gay Holocaust victims should be considered sufferers of genocide.

What did America do during the time period in which the Holocaust was happening? To start, the Holocaust was the genocide that killed six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany. America did not do much to help at this time. The US did things like making immigration laws way more difficult than it needed to be. They also turned away the St. Louis that boarded almost a thousand Jewish people and when given the chance to help, they chose not to. The United States during World War II did not consider saving the people being killed by Nazi Germany a prime concern.

The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially was over. About six million Jewish civilians perished because of it. There were some people that survived. What impact did the Holocaust have on its survivors? When the Holocaust ended, all survivors suffered from different emotions because they survived the tragedy. The survivors lost loved ones, and they had to keep that memory of the event with them for the rest of their lives. As a result of these emotions, they coped in many negative ways. Survivors of the Holocaust experienced guilt, isolated themselves, and suffered from a mental illness.

People such as bystanders stood by all around the world and watched as the innocent were killed.

There were many groups of people, other than the Jews, that were victims of persecution and murdered by the Nazis. The groups affected by the Holocaust were the Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, political dissidents and dissenting clergy, people with physical or mental disabilities, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, There is evidence as early as 1919 that Hitler had a strong hatred of Jews. As Chancellor and later Reichsfuhrer, Hitler translated these intense feelings into a series of policies and statutes which progressively eroded the rights of German Jews from 1933-1939 (“Victims”).

Our project is for the other victims of the Holocaust. Shedding a light represents seeing what might not be seen normally, and that fits perfectly with our project because it’s a light box. It is made out of a shadow box,tracing paper, copic markers, and fairy lights. It took one person $28 and a few hours of work. The design was created by layering the tracing paper and only having colors on certain layers so they could, or couldn't be seen when the light is off.

The children in the Holocaust were more significant than most would think, because they are just children right? Well I disagree, I have been doing research about the children of the Holocaust and people should know a little about what happened to them… The Nazis occupied Europe and one of the first things they did was gather up all the kids they could find. Some were luckily taken away from where the Nazis were looking for the children , and some were hidden because that’s how they would keep the Jewish population alive. They were forced to work in concentration camps or were murdered, and not all of them were even Jewish, some were gypsies, mentally or physically ill German children (Yes,the Nazis DID kill their own German blood!), and Polish

The Holocaust was a persecution of Jews implemented by the Nazi regime in Germany. Many Jews were stripped away from their homes and put into concentration camps. In many of these camps, they were forced to work as slaves and many times executed. In the book, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, it discusses his hardships in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Levi 's main focus for his book is his survival during the camp and how one can survive the brutalities of the Nazis.

Sit back, and imagine this: you’re sitting on a hard mattress. You can smell the smoke. The screams and tears of adults and children, just the same, fill the dirty air you breathe. Outside, acres upon acres of barbed wire and fortified walls. Platforms, cremation ovens, gallows, and gas chambers. The year is 1945, January 27th to be exact. This is a day that will be remembered for years to come. This is the day that the prisoners at camp Auschwitz being held by Nazi German soldiers were liberated.

The subject of the Holocaust is brought up many times but I'l now tell you the actually reality of this whole time. Back then we Jews never knew what was going on. No one ever mentioned that we would be stuck in a camp having to work our butts off just so we basically I can afford our life. During the time when we first arrived we were joyful besides having to be cramp and having to sit or stand on the train ride here. But once we finally were out and had all of our luggage we were joyful for the vacation we were promised. But that all took a mad turn in sudden minutes. The Nazis all the sudden command that we get into two lines. One was filled with mother and children while the other was filled with the men. looked around and all could see was worry in everyone's eyes. We then realized the

The holocaust was one of the low points in the history of mankind anywhere from 8,437,000 to 12,702,000 people were executed in the period of 1942-1945. That is killing 2,109,250 to 3,175,500 people a year! A majority of the people familiar with the Holocaust think that only Jewish people were persecuted when in fact there were many more groups of people, these groups included Slavs, Serbs, Soviet POWs, Romani people, colored people, the disabled, homosexuals, Freemasons, Spanish republicans, Gypsies, the mentally ill, and Jehovah's witnesses. These people were executed because they proposed a threat to the Great Nation, taking up space and land that Germany needed, were believed to be the cause of a problem, the wrong political, racial, religious reasons, distrust, suspicion, not being genetically pure, contrary wholesome popular sentiment, having Jewish ideology, refusing to pledge to German alliance, having succumbed to the Jews, or being in France when it fell.

Over the last two and a half millennia, the Jewish people have faced hardship and intolerance from various groups living beside them. A number of historians however believe that of all the atrocities committed against the Jewish people, none parallel the Holocaust. While these historians believe that the Holocaust was a unique occurrence, history rejects this notion of Nazi anti-semitism being an special incident.

I’ve seen many people die over the spain of my time here. Boxed into trains like roddents with no rights, no voice. It was another reguglar day here in the ghetto daily deportations, daily check ups at the factories. I Dan a worker here at the factory fear the day when I am no longer able to work for these, these devils. The word around here is that when theyre done with your you’re shipped out to a camp to die. Many say theyre ready to fight back against the Nazi’s i will never speak of them as soldiers because soldiers fight for their country not prison the ones that live here.

Dehumanization is the psychological process of destroying the enemy, making them seem less than human. The Nazis conducted dehumanization to the Jews, while they were imprisoned in the concentration camps. Certain things the Nazis would do is not feed them. “We had spend the day without food” (17). They would also make them cut their hair so that they would all look the same, losing someone's hair is like losing a part of their identity. “Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies” (35). Also, the Jews were instructed to stand for hours on end for roll call, where they lined up and they were counted before they went anywhere, and they were not allowed to sit down. “We stood up. We were counted. We sat down.

Known as one of the most horrific events in history, World War II (WW2) caused tremendous adversity and suffering amongst the lives of people across the globe. However, what is most concerning about the war, was what happened behind closed doors, specifically within Germany. The Holocaust is still considered one the worst ethnic cleansing attacks in the world. Although there is an endless amount of research and hard evidence of the Holocaust occurring, certain groups of individuals strongly reject it. Known as “Holocaust Denial”, this conspiracy theory has always been personally intriguing due to several reasons and will be analyzed more thoroughly.