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SURVIVE THE HOLOCAUST 1932-1945

Abby Hubbard B block

The Holocaust 1932-1945 Imagine being ten years old in a confusing world of hunger, torture, and questions. So many questions. Why are there armed men on every corner? Why is there no more sugar? Why is it always so dark and cold at night? The truth is sometimes is too hard for 10 year old’s to bare, but many children at this age in Europe have to face all of these unanswered questions.

The Holocaust was a dangerous and scary time for Jewish people in Europe due to the Nazis forcing many Jews to Go out of business so many people were unemployed, many

people had to leave their homes to try to escape, and lots of Jews were captured and killed or tortured in concentration camps and ghettos.The Holocaust began in 1932 when President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. The torture, hunger, and unemployment start here.

This is a map of Europe in 1942 that shows where the Nazis invaded, what places were safe from the Nazis, which places were dependent and the escape routes.

Unemployment Many Jews lost their jobs due to Nazis closing their shops, or firing them. The Nazis wanted to make Jewish people’s life as hard as possible and making them unemployed helped a lot. It’s hard enough to find food already but now, with the lack of money, many people were starving.

According to the Wiener Library, “The Careers Civil Service Act of April 1933 removed all Jews from the civil service, which also included the teaching profession.

All these jobs were taken over by those who were designated to be Aryan. In line with their racial policies, the Nazis sought to remove Jews from the employment register.”

The nazis wanted to make every Jew unemployed and this impacted their lives in a huge way.

This image shows a Nazi soldier closing a shop run by a jew.

Capture 6 million Jews died due to large shootings, gassing, and over half of the Jewish victims died in concentration camps or ghettos. Jews were targeted during the Holocaust because Hitler blamed them for all of the things that went wrong in the world, especially world war I. The “Final solution” was his, and other german’s plan to murder all the Jews of Europe. They could have been shot in a public square, or simply run down by a military car.

Concentration camps were places where Jews, or other people who disagreed with Nazis were taken to be, most likely executed, or forced to do labor.

Many of the people who were taken to these concentration camps were found in ghettos, according to the Holocaust memorial museum, “the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews… The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to killing centers.” These ghettos cost millions of lives during the Holocaust.

Innocent people were taken from their friends and family, tortured, killed, and all because of some powerful men’s belief.

This is a chart of the deaths during the Holocaust. this shows how mostly Jews were targeted, but also how many others lost their lives as well.

Escape Because of the lack of food, Almost every boat captain warmth, and money many people used this special handkerchief, had to leave their friends, family, and many lives were saved by and homes to escape the dangers this device. The united states and find a better place to live. Not holocaust memorial museum many people helped Jews escape says, “After the war began on because of the danger they are September 1, 1939, escape putting themselves in, but the became much more difficult. people who did were usually part Nazi Germany technically of an organization. Many permitted emigration from the fishermen had secret hideouts in Reich until November 1941. their boats to smuggle jews to a However, there were few neutral country. The nazis started countries willing to accept to suspect that people were Jewish refugees…” Babies, escaping so they started to use children, and adults had to go police dogs to sniff out hidden on this terrifying journey passengers on the fishing boats. across the ocean, most However, swedish scientists successful, but many got worked swiftly to prevent this. turned down at the borders.

They created a strong powder containing dried rabbit’s blood and cocaine. The blood attracted the dogs, but when they sniffed it, the cocaine temporarily destroyed their sense of smell. They put it in a handkerchief so it could be used This is a picture of a boat that Jews without the fisherman being and other people in Europe during questioned. the Holocaust would escape on

The Holocaust 1932-1945 As you can see, the Holocaust was a dangerous and scary time for Jew's in Europe due to unemployment, murder, and having to leave everything behind to escape, risking their lives to have freedom.

This is an image of a concentration camp

Lexicon 1. Swastika p.21 "'mama, it had a swastika on it'' 2. Sabbath candles p.32 "Annemarie and Kirstie had often been invited to light the Sabbath candles on Friday evenings.

3. Star of David p.131 "The little star of David still gleamed gold."

4. De Frie Danske "did you read in the de frie danske about the bombing?

5. Ghetto "most Jews lived in a Ghetto" 6. footrace "I won the girls footrace last friday at school" 7. Anti-semitism 8. concentration camps "Nazis took Jews to concentration camps" 9. Adolf Hitler "Adolf Hitler and its collaborators killed about 6 million Jews

Works Cited Holocaust | Basic Questions about the Holocaust. Web. 05 June 2017.

"Escape from German-Occupied Europe."

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Web. 05 June 2017.

"The Holocaust and World War II: Timeline." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Web. 05 June 2017.

"How Did the Nazis Control Employment?"

The Holocaust Explained. Web. 05 June 2017.

"Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

United States Holocaust Memorial