Holocaust-2

Concentration  After the Jews were segregated by definition from the rest of the people, and their economic ties with the rest of the society were mostly cut or restricted, the Jews were physically separated from the rest of the society. Either by forcing them to move to special houses, or to [|ghettos],(A **ghetto** is an area which people from a given ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion are forced to live in) Jews now had to live in inferior conditions. The Polish Jews were the first to be exterminated. While they were deported (sent out) to extermination camps (death camps), German Jews were put into the Polish ghettos formerly inhabited by the Polish Jews. By concentrating the Jews into ghettos, concentration camps or forced-labor camps, the Jews were completely cut off from the rest of society, dependent on the goodwill of and under the control of the Nazis. The Nazis controlled, how much food entered the ghetto, used the ghetto populace as cheap work pool, etc. Put outside society, without money, and under the control of the Nazis, the Jews now where defenseless.

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[|Auschwitz-Birkenau] was the largest concentration and extermination (death) camp, located in Poland. It became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...=====

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To see how Hitler's political and military power took over Western Europe during WWII, watch [|this slideshow.]
//** Terezin was a unique concentration camp. Although 92, 297 thousand Jews died there, it was not considered a death camp. It was unique in that it housed an unusual number of artists- musicians, poets, etc. These artists, many of them children, stole materials so that they could create their art- drawings, poetry, and music. Their work, which was later found hidden in the remains of the camp, allowed the world to known about life inside the camp. To Read more about Terezin concentration camp, [|click here.]**//

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<span style="color: rgb(17, 0, 255);"> //**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|At Terezin] <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|On a Sunny Evening] <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|The Closed Town] <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|Birdsong] **//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(21, 101, 35);">    <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(31, 132, 38);">//"I cried out against the brutality but no one listened."// **<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(31, 132, 38);"> <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(31, 132, 38);"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(31, 132, 38);"> ===I can still see my father as he waved to me for the last time. After that I was taken to a work camp with 280 men aged 18 to 48. We worked very hard, and although I had not previously done any physical labor, I was young, and I quickly got used to it. We were used for the hardest, most dangerous tasks, such as digging out unexploded bombs. During air raids, we had to stay nearest the military storage for explosives because, as they said, if we were hit, "At least the ammunition would not be wasted."===

===They fed us well at the camp, but their cruelty can be best expressed this way: When they confiscated things and searched us, they ripped to shreds all photographs of family members we had in our possession. Fathers watched as their precious pictures-maybe their last glimpses of loved ones-were destroyed before their eyes. As the military snatched them away, they would exclaim, "You don't need these pictures any more, because you will never see your family again!"===

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