How were the Jews affected by the holocaust?

Answer 1

In many different ways. It depends on the country where they lived, on their environment and its ability and willing to help, on their financial situation and other more. So most probably the situation for a poor, strong religious Jewish family living in Poland and Ukraine without any support from (non Jewish) neighbours was just desperately. In most of these cases they were hunted down by Nazi institutions and sent to camps all over Europe, mostly in the eastern part. Other families (mostly) in the west of Europe sometimes managed to flee early enough and/or buy themselves out (especially in the earlier stage before 1941). And also there are a few cases when entire families were saved by neighbours and whole communities. So as far as I know could a lot of the Jewish community from Denmark survive the war due to the support of their country mates. One case in my own family allowed my (German) uncle to survive the war and the occupation as a small boy being hidden by a Dutch family while his entire family was wiped out in Auschwitz. The devastating effect on his/our family is clear. In a conclusion you can clearly say that none of the Jewish families in the occupied parts of Europe was not effected by the Nazis, nevertheless is the range spread from fleeing and losing all your owning, citizenship, home and often enough hope to the death of the entire family. Most of the survivors are strongly effected by traumata and post-stress symptoms and, of course, hate towards those who were responsible or even connected to those responsible (meaning according to their citizenship). It took and will take even more generations for a lot of families to find back to whatever is perceived as normality.

Answer 2

They weren't. They were simply arrested and put into tiny living quarters called Ghettos. These were basically holding pens for the arrested Jewish people until trains or other means came to take them to their deaths.

Just for being Jewish you were sentenced to an eventual death.

Answer 3

they killed them.
The Nazi party of WW2 Germany killed off six million Jews, and whoever they didn't kill were put to work as slaves.

Answer 4

their numbers declined.

Answer 5

They were sent to concentration camps. :/

Answer 6

A third of all jews died, and there population is still bellow the pre-WW2 numbers. Although the Holocaust caused more people to think that the jews need there own state, so england created Israel for the jewish people.