Everything. They were stripped naked and then given clothes to wear. The Nazis even shaved their heads and pulled the gold from their teeth to save the hair and gold for sale. When the concentration camps were liberated, whole box cars were found filled with eyeglasses, boxes full of dentures and dental gold, suitcases, purses, and clothing. Everything that came to the camp with the prisoners was confiscated by the Nazi's.
the Jews did nothing wrong. its was just after the first world war and Germany was in a terrible state the NAZI party rose to power and Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews on the state of Germany. that is why the Germans built the concentration camps so they could make the Jews suffer how the Germans thought the Jews made their country suffer.
Yes, it was another way to assert dominance over the prisoners, there were many rules about the use of them and there were severe punishments for prisoners without a hat. Prisoners would hold their hats tightly when asleep as not to lose them.
The concentration camp slaughter accelerated at an apalling rate, trying to exterminate "undesirables" even if the Germans lost. BTW, not only were 6 million Jews killed, but 11 million Christians, Gypsies, and others that Germany determined were "undesirable" and not "Arian". It is reported that the ovens were still hot when the Allies found the concentration camps. The prisoners were freed, and many eventually found their way to Israel, the US, Latin America, and England. Very few returned to their birth country.
Nearly all of them got rickets or berry berry or other vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases. They would also lose their teeth, hair, get brittle bones, lose their body mass and died from the starvation and dehydration.
they didn't. In the eyes of the Nazis the Jews never had individual identities.
the Jews did nothing wrong. its was just after the first world war and Germany was in a terrible state the NAZI party rose to power and Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews on the state of Germany. that is why the Germans built the concentration camps so they could make the Jews suffer how the Germans thought the Jews made their country suffer.
The Jews and many other races during the Holocaust were treated like dirt. They were tortured, starved, and basically dead inside their bodies. Germans experimented on them by seeing how long it would take to burn them, etc. For the Jews, it was basically a lose-lose situation. :(
Although they were generally peaceful, there were a few instances of uprisings in concentration camps when they felt they had nothing to lose. An infamous example of this is the Treblinka uprising. Have a gander at the related link to the Wikipedia article about it.
Yes, it was another way to assert dominance over the prisoners, there were many rules about the use of them and there were severe punishments for prisoners without a hat. Prisoners would hold their hats tightly when asleep as not to lose them.
Jews didn't lose any rights! After Passover, Jews were allowed to leave Egypt. This resulted in them becoming a united nation and receiving the Torah. The Jews have prospered, regardless of the threats and actions taken against them.
Jews didn't lose any rights! After Passover, Jews were allowed to leave Egypt. This resulted in them becoming a united nation and receiving the Torah. The Jews have prospered, regardless of the threats and actions taken against them.
The concentration camp slaughter accelerated at an apalling rate, trying to exterminate "undesirables" even if the Germans lost. BTW, not only were 6 million Jews killed, but 11 million Christians, Gypsies, and others that Germany determined were "undesirable" and not "Arian". It is reported that the ovens were still hot when the Allies found the concentration camps. The prisoners were freed, and many eventually found their way to Israel, the US, Latin America, and England. Very few returned to their birth country.
He blamed the lose in WWI on the Jews, and blamed them for the economic depression in the 1930's. (He said the Jews had taken all the good jobs in German.)
If you need to lose weight you are not starving. How many obese people are there in concentration camps? If you are too heavy, eat less. But make sure your weight is truly too much before you start.
Nationalism did not impact Jews until the end of World War I. Germany was still fiddling with nationalism, and the rise in power of Adolf Hitler did not help. Many German soldiers who fought in World War I believed that Germany did not truly lose the war. In fact, they believed that Germany was sold out to the Allies by the Jewish politicians (known as the Stabbed-in-the-Back Theory). Hitler was one of these soldiers. This flourished anti-semitism in him that he would use in his politics. He praised a new German race, the Aryan Race, in which he exclaimed would be perfect. But Jews were not a part of the Aryan Race, so Hitler decided to get rid of them. His first intention was not to exterminate them, but to force emigrate them. When World War II started, most Jews were in concentration camps, or labor camps. But when WWII was near an end and Hitler was faced with defeat, he took his extreme step to rid Europe of Jews. He started mass exterminating Jews and turning the concentration camps into death camps. When the war was over, Hitler had massacred 6,000,000 Jews, obliterating the Jewish population in Europe. Those who remained started migrating out of Europe because they wanted to leave Europe, they felt betrayed, etc. To compensate the Jews, the United Kingdom transformed their mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state: Israel. Most of the Jews who remained in Europe and did not already migrate other places, such as the US, immigrated to Israel. Europe was then basically cleared of all Jews, and today, only about 2,000,000 Jews live in Europe.
Nearly all of them got rickets or berry berry or other vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases. They would also lose their teeth, hair, get brittle bones, lose their body mass and died from the starvation and dehydration.
Elie prays that he will never abandon his father, even in times of great hardship and suffering. He vows to stick by his father and not lose his humanity in the face of the atrocities they are experiencing in the concentration camps during the Holocaust.