Holocaust

Well, when Germany invaded Poland they invaded many Jewish homes. They were looking for people that were in good enough condition to work. People that could work were taken to the concentration camps. People who could not work were either killed or sent to ghettos ( place of very bad condition ) in the ghettos they were to live in rooms with lots of other family's. There were lots of disease that spread, and lots of suicide attempts. The ghettos were surrounded by electric barbed wire fences. Most people including kids that had enough and couldn't take it often ran up to the fence and electrocuted themselves. Others were forced up against the wall for execution. Concentration camps were also homes for some people but only for a while. In concentration camps, no one is guaranteed to live in concentration camps uness you had an important job.

no one prevented the Holocaust, it happened.

That was probably Heinrich Himmler's idea. Before the camps were built, soldiers in the "Einsatzgruppen" simply went into Jewish towns and shot all the Jews, and killed about 1 million Jews that way. However, it was inefficient and it was having a big effect on the morale of the soldiers, and some became depressed. Several high ranking officials had a meeting to discuss the problem, and the decision was the "Final Solution", which was to relocate Jews into ghettos, and then to send them to camps. The camps were staffed by a division of Himmler's SS, which was able to carry out their duties without a serious effect on their mental health.

In an essay i wrote for class i answered this question= Theresienstadt ghetto/camp research

The Theresienstadt ''camp-ghetto'' existed for three and a half years between November 24, 1941 and may 9, 1945. During its existence, Theresienstadt served three purposes. First, Theresienstadt served as a transit camp for Czech Jews whom the Germans deported to killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in Poland, Belorussian, and the Baltic States.

Theresienstadt also was a ghetto-labor camp to which the SS deported and then imprisoned jews in certain categories based on their age and disability. Theresienstadt served as a holding pen for Jews in the above-mentioned groups. It was expected that that poor conditions there would cause the deaths of many deportees, until the SS and police could deport the survivors to killing centers somewhere in the East. Theresienstadt was Neither a "ghetto" or a concentration camp Theresienstadt was similar as to a "settlement," because of this it had similar features of both ghettos and concentration camps.

Theresienstadt was a unique facility because even though there was terrible living conditions and the constant threat of deportation Theresienstadt had a highly developed cultural life there was many outstanding Jewish artists. Nazis used the Theresienstadt ghetto to hide the nature of deportations.

When reports about the death camps began to emerge at the end of 1943, the Nazis decided to present Theresienstadt to an investigative commission of the International Red Cross. In preparation for the commission's visit more deportations to Auschwitz were carried out in order to reduce the overcrowding in the ghetto. Fake stores, a coffee house, bank, school, kindergartens and the like were opened and flower gardens were planted throughout the ghetto.

The appalling overcrowding, sanitary conditions and malnourished led to the spread of diseases amongst the population of the ghetto. In 1942, 15,891 people died in Theresienstadt, half of the ghetto's population. More than 155,000 Jews passed through Theresienstadt until it was liberated on May 8, 1945; 35,440 perished in the ghetto and 88,000 were deported to be murdered.

To be put simply, he was Courageous.

He hid them away.

He gave forged passports to Jews, with the help of a Swedish diplomat, which would show them to be Swedish citizens.

He even threatened the Nazi leaders of the region.

Latvia, Lithuania and Poland all had a 90 percent death rate in the Final Solution.

She was Jewish, and as you know, Nazists built concentration camps and their idea was to destroy Jewish people. She was found in Amsterdam where she was hiding and took to Bergen-Belsen camp where she died. Also, her mother and sister died there. Just her father survived and died in 1980.

All I know is that Anne Frank went into hiding for two years. They were cut off from the outside world completely, except for an illegal radio. Anne couldn't contact her friend, Hannah. When the soldiers caught them, because they were disobeying the Nazis, they were in much worse condition. They were put into S barracks, which were much worse. Anne had to loose her lucious hair that she was so proud of, and she had no food. Whereas her friend Hannah had been transported in a Razia (a gathering of Jews) and she had gotten to keep her clothes, keep her hair, and eat small amounts of food.

basically because they could, the Jews only constituted one per cent of the population. There was growing anger, especially within the working class, about the poor Jewish imigrants coming over from the East. The Jews has no state or no statesman to speak uo for them, so they were an easy target.

Kids didn't play "outside of the camps". The camps were not in zones where kids would be and there was a no man's land around them. There were watch towers, men with guns, dogs, and barbed wire. Most were in remote areas and the Nazi were brutal.

hundreds if not thousands, transit camps by their nature are temporary, they can last for as briefly as one day

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In the Holocaust there were a number of permanent transit camps. Examples include Westerbork (Netherlands), Drancy (France), Breendonk (Belgium). These functioned as collection centres. When victims were arrested they were often first sent to a transit camp, where they were held until there were enough people for a transport (or shipment) to Auschwitz or some other extermination camp.

Reactions were mixed as with most subjects in America. People's opinions varied from sympathy with the victims of the Holocaust, to apathy, even to sympathy with the Nazi party.

There are familiar names like Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhardt Heydrich. Other names are obscure like Werner von Blomberg, Walter Rauf, Walter von Richnau, Julius Schreck, Ludolf von Alvenleben, Erich von dem Bach and Ernst Roehm, but they all played instrumental roles at various times in the growth of the Nazi Party.

The Green Triangle was used to mark those who were convicted of a crime. The people with the green triangle were treated better than any of the other badges and would often voluntarily go to the concentration camps for a reduced sentence. They were often leaders who keep the other prisoners in line and shot those who didn't stay in line.

They both suck. Also the usa had to put up with it.

Besides Jewish people, Adolph Hitler killed:

Antisocial people, particularly women who didn't fit traditional gender roles

Communists

Gay men

Gypsies/Romani

Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as certain other Christians

Lazy and "work shy" individuals

Mentally or physically handicapped people

Substance abusers

Union supporters

Violent Criminals

The Jews were transported by train in boxcars, and it was dark and packed full. Also, many died due to starvation, thirst and weather conditions.

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They were transported by slow freight trains, with no breaks for food or water and only one bucket per cattle truck for sanitation. The journey often took 3-4 days or longer. They were packed tightly. In winter it was bitterly cold; in summer it was often very hot. On arrival at the camp, some of the victims were already dead. Occasionally, some corpses got left in the cattle trucks ... There are documents still in existence in which the German railways (Deutsche Reichsbahn) sent bills to the SS for having to arrange funerals for these!

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Jews were sent to concentration camps in small little train carriages in some people died in the train before they even got to the concentration camp!!

The Allied Forces and the United Nations helped the surviving Jews to relocate to other nations. Most of the Jews went to the United States and many went to Israel. The UN and the Allied Forces worked to see that people would be accepted into other countries and helped many relocate to other nations. They did not however give money and jobs to the people when they arrived. But, the Jews were resilient and managed to start over in their new nations. In 1948, Israel was able to win their independence. They were able to join the UN and accept more displaced Jews after a time.

They were for cremating (burning) the corpses of people who had been gassed.

Very few Holocaust survivors from the extermination concentration camps are still alive. Most of the survivors were males. And as no children below the age of 12 survived the camps, all survivors must have been born earlier than 1932. This would make the very youngest of them, 84 years old, as of 2015.

GIRLS (not women) were often gassed immediately. Either that, or they died of typhus or some other disease.

Prisoners in concentration camps were housed in large huts. The German word for a large hut is a Baracke and in the English-speaking countries this has been translated by the most plausible-looking English word that looks like it - barracks. (This is in fact a mistranslation but we are probably stuck with it).