Barbara Smoke And Ashes: The Story Of The Holocaust

The Jews were put in trucks and then driven into the forest in Galicia. Where they were forced to dig their own pits. Then when they finished digging they would be killed and put in the pits then burned. Babies were thrown up in the air used for targets by the Nazis. The Nazis also had machinery, guns, and camps.

What they did is they removed the bodies form the gas chambers and buried the victims in the graves with other victims. They also burned the bodies. They had no other choice be cause there was stacks and piles of bodies so they had to get rid of them so they just burned the bodies. The Jews in the concentration camp had a place to sleep but is was like a barn but was a bunk. The (barn) had man wooden beds and their were bunks of threes or four.

The Jews were forced to do all types of things such as, burn bodies, clean, and so much more. Working was their way to survive the camp, but most people didn’t make it until the end, when the Americans saved the ones who were still alive.

But some of them you be hunted down and shot as an example of what would happen to you if you tried to escape. Now, most escapes weren't successful, most of the times the jews revolting in the camps were simple mowed down at the guard's orders. Now, there were other forces outside of the camps that were more successful, called the underground

Jews usually work in the camp and did outside labor like factories, construction projects, farms or coal mines (Vashem). They walked miles to get to their work. If they did not corporate they were shot on sight. 11 million Jews were killed in the holocaust(Rosenberg). Miep Gies was living in Amsterdam almost all her life.

Eleven million lives were massacred in one of the world’s darkest moments attempting to create a perfect race. In 1944 Germany began to lose in World War II, Adolf Hitler's final solution aimed the blame towards Europe's Jewish population, gypsies, and homosexuals. Together Hitler and the Nazi regime progressively deprived the Jews, gypsies and homosexuals of their rights. Many people were brought to labor camps by train. The conditions in the camps were inhumane.

However, this was only a small step in Hitler’s plan for genocide. “The use of gas chambers started in 1939 and were used to kill mentally ill patients in asylums.” (USHMM) They used them in work camps to kill weak prisoners unfit to work. By the end of 1941, they started using mobile and stationary gas chambers

In fact, the Jews faced many horrifying obstacles in order to stay alive, such as concentration camps, death marches, ghettos, and killing centers. All of these malevolent obstacles were created by the Nazis in order to fulfill their “Final Solution,” or in other words their plan of terminating the existence of the Jews. Additionally, the Jews had their property confiscated and their lives restricted by more than four hundred decrees and regulations. With this, the Jews had lost their civil rights while being simultaneously dehumanized. They were forced to shave off all their hair, wear very thin clothing in freezing temperatures, forced to do hard labor, were given small

They blamed the Jews for Germany's problems, including their defeat in World War I and the economic depression of the 1930s. As a result, the Nazis began a campaign of anti-Semitic propaganda, which portrayed Jews as subhuman and a threat to the German way of life. In 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and immediately began implementing

It is not clear as to when the Nazi leadership decided to implement the "Final Solution," the plan to kill off the Jews of Europe. The genocide of the Jews was the plan of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and the realization of a core goal of the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler. In the years of Nazi rule before World War II, policies of segregation and persecution targeting German Jews and focused on the goal of expulsion. After the Nazi party seized power in 1933, state-sponsored racism started anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, "Aryanization," and massive street violence, as in the Kristallnacht (commonly known as the "Night of Broken Glass") programs. With all of these measures, the Nazi leaders sought to drive the Jews out of Germany

During this time 6,000,000 Jews were killed, not by war, but rather at the hands of Germany. Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race and was a threat to German purity. After years of being mistreated Hitler had a plan called the Final Solution, which was the attempt to extinct the entire Jewish Population. Germany would accomplish this by concentration camps that were set up in Poland.

Nazi Death Marches During WWII, Hitler ordered for all Jews to be taken to work camps, where they were forced to work in with little to no food. Most of the time the Jews would be making stuff for the German army such as, tools or clothing. The Jews had to have a strong spirit, or they would perish. But, towards the end of the war American troops invaded Germany, finding the work camps. Afraid of the American troops finding the work camps; Hitler ordered all work camps to be evacuated to death camps deep in Germany.

The Nazis attempted to identify and contain all the Jews so that eventually, they could be moved to gas chambers. They used the euphemism “the final aim” to conceal their intention to exterminate the Jewish race from Europe (Byers 63). Additionally, Members of the Nazi party used the forced migration of the Jews to rob them of many of their belongings. Jewish families had their houses, money, clothing, artwork, jewelry and furniture taken in the chaos (Byers 65).

We are still uncertain whether the Nazis’ were trying to ship them away or to kill them off like animals. What is clear is that the killing of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Germany, from 1933 onward, was cascading with anti-Jewish propaganda. The Final Solution consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation which accounted for most of the deaths of the Jews.

Jews were told that they would be 'resettled'. In reality, they were taken to one of the six death camps. Hundreds of thousands of people were crammed into sealed cattle trucks or open wagons, sometimes spending days without food, water or sanitation. People arrived sick, dehydrated and starving.