The Holocaust Horror
By: Emelie Quintero
The word Holocaust comes from the Greek words “holos” which means whole and "kaustos" that means burned, it was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar however now it has it a deeper and darker meaning due to the Holocaust time period. The Holocaust started on January 30,1933 and ended on May 8,1945. In late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps and they started with those people viewed as the least useful which were the old, sick, weak, and the very young. On Mach 17,1942 the first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin. There was five more mass killing centers were built at camps in occupied Poland, including Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and the biggest of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the year 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe. During the summer and fall of 1942, there were more than 300,000 people that were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone. Also during the summer as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day in Auschwitz.6 million of them where Jews that been murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust. In 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, a threat and he wanted them vanished one by one. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution” which now known as the Holocaust has came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland.
The Nazis tried to keep operation of camps secret however how vicious the killings were it made it impossible not to have a clue. There were eyewitnesses who brought reports of Nazi atrocities in Poland to the Allied governments because they were harshly criticized after the war for their failure to respond, or to publicize news of the mass slaughter. The most likely reason why this is due to the Allied focus on winning the war , however it was also a outcome of the general incomprehension with which the talk of the Holocaust disrespectful in every way possible. In Auschwitz there were more than 2 million people that were murdered in a process resembling a large-scale industrial operation. At these labor camps many people died of natural causes because they were not living in a stable environment that lead them to getting diseases.
The people who had to live during the Holocaust suffered a lot and as a society right now we can see that because people like Anne Frank and Eli Wilson that documented their horrifying experience. They lived in pain and their life's were limited because of the Holocaust even the survivors had a hard time overcoming that dreadful experience. The Survivors of the camps found it nearly impossible to return home like in many cases they had lost their families and been looked at unfairly for what has happen . To prove and to the punish the villains that the Holocaust was wrong, the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 that brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light to see. The Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust would lead to a mandate for the creation of Israel in 1948. Later on in 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of acknowledging the German people’s responsibility for the crimes committed in their name. From that point things change but the past never really goes away.
The Nazis tried to keep operation of camps secret however how vicious the killings were it made it impossible not to have a clue. There were eyewitnesses who brought reports of Nazi atrocities in Poland to the Allied governments because they were harshly criticized after the war for their failure to respond, or to publicize news of the mass slaughter. The most likely reason why this is due to the Allied focus on winning the war , however it was also a outcome of the general incomprehension with which the talk of the Holocaust disrespectful in every way possible. In Auschwitz there were more than 2 million people that were murdered in a process resembling a large-scale industrial operation. At these labor camps many people died of natural causes because they were not living in a stable environment that lead them to getting diseases.
The people who had to live during the Holocaust suffered a lot and as a society right now we can see that because people like Anne Frank and Eli Wilson that documented their horrifying experience. They lived in pain and their life's were limited because of the Holocaust even the survivors had a hard time overcoming that dreadful experience. The Survivors of the camps found it nearly impossible to return home like in many cases they had lost their families and been looked at unfairly for what has happen . To prove and to the punish the villains that the Holocaust was wrong, the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 that brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light to see. The Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust would lead to a mandate for the creation of Israel in 1948. Later on in 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of acknowledging the German people’s responsibility for the crimes committed in their name. From that point things change but the past never really goes away.