Horrors of the Holocaust: Bryce McDaniel

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ISSUE 27 | JUNE 1944

HORRORS OF THE HOLOCAUST

Ghettos and Concentration camps

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Ghettos When Germans invaded towns they would take healthy kids and adults from their homes and take them away on trains. Germans would build a wall around the city to keep the Jews from getting away and make all non-Jews leave. If you weren’t Jewish, then they thought you were German. “German police soon forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes and into ghettos.” (From History.com.)

One of many ghettos in Poland

Map of Ghettos

Concentration Camps were where Nazis sent captured Jews to work and build more barracks for more prisoners. Nazis would kill prisoners as if it were a game to them.

Concentration camps were prisons for Jews.

The prisoners had to do hard labor and the weak were most likely killed or died from starvation. Some concentration camps had gas chambers.

Nazis would put big groups of people into the chambers and the poison gas Zyklon-B would kill them.

Concentration Camps

Sometimes Nazis would bring prisoners to the Nazis’ doctor and they would perform cruel medical experiments.

Many prisoners died from those experiments.

“Auschwitz facilities, could hold some 90,000 prisoners. It also housed a group of bathhouses where countless people were gassed to death.” (from history.com.) “Some Auschwitz prisoners were subjected to inhumane medical experimentation.” (from History.com.)

Chart of the Holocaust

This chart shows how many people died during the Holocaust. The chart also displays how many people died in a religion. During the Holocaust, Polish Jews were majority of the Jews that got killed by the Nazis.

Lexicon Panzers: German armed vehicle Nazis: member of NSG Ghetto: put in a restricted area Deportation: a foreigner from a country.

Kapo: prisoner functionary Star of David: symbol used by Jewish and Israeli.

SS guards: Is Hitler's personal guard Barracks: building to housed a special group of people Amon Goeth:Commandant of Plaszow concentration camp Taint: trace of a bad substance Muselmann: person on verge of death Starvation: death caused by hunger Taunt: remark made in order to anger Concentration camps: where large number of people go to work in hard labor Gas chambers:airtight room that can be filled with poisonous gas Death camp: prison camp, which many die from treatment and poor conditions.

Gallows : a structure for hanging Barbed wire: wire with cluster of short, sharp spikes

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