Ww2 Germany Trip - Ww2

In the first 11 months, four and a half million people were killed or died. By the end of World War II, approximately six million Jews, including a little more than a million children, were murdered by Nazis. To persuade the prisoners to go into the gas chambers, signs such as ‘baths and disinfecting rooms’ and ‘cleanliness brings freedom’ were hung above the entrance. Gas from the chambers took about 20 minutes to kill everyone in the chamber; 6,000 people died everyday due to this sorcery. During the death marches, intolerable work, approximately 100,000 people died. Sixty percent of the Jews lived in Europe in 1933, which means that about forty percent of the Jewish population died during the holocaust in Europe. Only nine percent of Poland's Jews survived; however, 99% of the Jewish Denmark population survived. Unfortunately, only 2,500 Jewish people survived out of 4,500 in Estonia. Although, there were only 800,000 people in Hungary, 204,000 survived, which is a little more than one fourth of the initial Jewish population. Overall there are 195,000 survivors and counting. Five million of the 11 million people that were killed were non-Jewish. Most survivors are located in the United States or Canada, although many families have registered survivors from 59 other countries. However, most countries were largely unaware of the Holocaust and its scope until they were able to see the evidence themselves. Some felt guilty for surviving when six million suffered and died. One particular, Jeannine Burk, thought and said, "Why am I alive? Why is my father dead? Why did 6,000,000 die and I am alive?" Statistics show that Holocaust survivors are three times more likely to commit suicide. It is hard for some parents to tell their children what happened because they went through so

During this time the Jews were not expecting for what came, and was very unprepared for the step by step process that happened to make them disappear (Boag). “Up until the nationwide anti-Jewish violence of 1938, known as Kristallnacht, many Jews in Germany expected to be able to hold out against Nazi-sponsored persecution,” (“Holocaust Memorial Council”). The Jewish people of Germany looked at themselves to be German and did many things to prove it, like fight for their country in World War I (“Holocaust Memorial Council”). More than 10,000 Jewish people died fighting for their country in World War I, and many others that didn’t die were congratulated for the work they did by receiving a medal (“Holocaust Memorial Council”).

Did you know that about 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust? For example, the idea that many people died was brought up many times in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is a young man's account of his life during this horrific time and how he and his family had suffered. Moreover, this story is about how he moved from his home to the ghettos then to the concentration camps and how the Germans tortured him, his family, and so many others. During the Holocaust many people lost their dignity, their faith, and their humanity.

In 1939, during World War 2, over 6 million Jews were persecuted and killed. This massive conflict is known as the Holocaust. So many innocent people died in vain because a person wanted to make a country a better place, but not the world. Although 6 million Jews died, some Jews manage to survive thanks to their undying force of will through laughter, love, and nature. Love is one thing that helped people’s spirits to go on.

Millions of Jews died in world war 2 millions of innocent lives perished one of the darkest chapters in human history. At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million Jews were murdered (history.com).

I woke up looking around not knowing what was going on. I looked around realizing that I was in an unknown bed. Panicking at first I tried to find my bearings, but I calmed down quickly as I watched my mother walk into the room.

“We brought you in here, clothed you, fed you, and even gave you a good education. I want the best for you. We took you in. Be grateful.” I am now silent, and so is she. It’s like the world is on pause for a second. I tilt my head just enough so she can see my: are-you-serious-look.

“A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help” ( Wiesel 94). Elie Wiesel and many other Jews were put in freight cars and and thought that their lives were over. The jews couldn’t have anyone help them, even when they were calling out for help. Elie wrote a novel called Night, he wrote from his own experience that he had when he was a child. He thought that once he got out of the freight car that it would be the end of the road. At the concentration camps jews could not talk, they had to do everything that Hitler’s men said. While the Holocaust was going on Jews were changing their emotions and how they were acting and working in the camps.

“The fact is they know I went through hell.” -Professor Bacharach, Holocaust Survivor. Ever since many centuries ago, Jewish people were treated unfairly and unjustly according to their religion and characteristics. The Holocaust was a fearful and painful genocide because of anti-semitism throughout European countries. Up to six million Jews died in the harrowing genocide, along with the death of many other religious and ethnical groups ("Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution"). As much as a fraction of the number of Jews survived. With much grief and sorrow during the Holocaust, the survivors had to suffer the emotional and physical trauma after the event. Survivors had to face the reality of rebuilding their lives after the

Lauren: Hi Mr. Wiesel, I’m Lauren and I would like to say thank you for coming to talk to me tonight about the events that you have had to witness throughout your life in Europe.

Imagine being stripped from everything you have ever had, including your identity. Michael Bornstein lived in Nazi concentration camps for seven months which is very surprising because most children would only last two weeks there. Facing many obstacles at the concentration camp Michael Bornstein had to overcome the fact this his father and brother were murdered at Auschwitz. One day as Michael Bornstein was watching a film about the holocaust - The Chosen - he noticed there was footage of him as a young boy at a Nazi concentration camp. Baffled and overwhelmed at this footage, he called the director of the movie, asking where this footage came from and how he managed to get a hold of it.

What kind of questions do you think these people had when they were getting off of the train? When preparing for my role as Ezra in my monologue, I read over my script many times with a German accent.

she said… No kidding?’ I said. I had no idea whom she meant. ‘What’s that sound?’

She compares the German language to a train, taking her to a concentration camp. Her father speaks German so this

The immediate reaction of my subject consisted of a neck jerk, small laugh, and the polite response of “I am sorry can you repeat yourself”. I then repeated myself, and this time she came to realize I was speaking a language other than English, her response this time with a minor eye roll was “I can only speak English”. I then moved onto to a game of shardes, acting out what I needed (slippers), pointing to various objects with her guessing what I needed. She was now becoming evidently annoyed, to a point where she said “If you can understand what I am saying why can you not speak English”, additionally, her voice was becoming more aggressive too. As this was such a great response, I became lost for words, and she began to wave her manger, as a result, I admitted to her this skit was for my Sociology HW. Consequently, her small came back and she began to blush. I politely apologized for the inconvenience, but in the end I did ask where the slippers were. Lastly, those around her were also smiling as it seems they must of observed th