Older people were gassed as soon as practical after arrival.
Elie's father was in his fifties but to the officers he said that he was forty because in the holocaust you weren't not aloud to work if you were older than fifty they would just kill you
Yes, there are still people alive today who were alive during the Holocaust. These individuals are typically in their late 80s or older. It's important to hear their stories and remember the atrocities of the Holocaust to prevent such events from happening again.
3 People were killed and over 100 injured :( And one suspect killed (meaning his older brother), but the younger suspect is still alive.
Elie Wiesel's older sister was named Hilda. She, along with his younger sister Tzipora, died during the Holocaust while the family was in concentration camps.
Quite often, yes. The children were killed outright, while healthy adults were worked first.
476 most of which happened to older people
Conditions in the trains were appalling. The victims were packed tightly into cattle trucks and the trains travelled very slowly. (For example, the Greek Jews sent to Auschwitz had to spend 120 hours in the trains). There were no lavatories and people had to sleep standing up. Many older or frail people died in those trains.
Marisa Kantor Stark has written: 'Bring us the old people' -- subject(s): Fiction, Older women, Guilt, Nursing home patients, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Widows, Holocaust survivors
The mothers and the infants were killed together in the holocaust. The mothers carried their children to be executed. The older children were not always executed with their family.
The Jewish claim that Jerusalem is a holy city is much older and is completely unrelated to the Holocaust.
They were ambushed and killed
people got older. people were born. people died. people got into fights. people fell in love. etc. all the obvious stuff