Holocaust

Nothing happened in Hitler's family tree to make him hate Jews.

People in Germany and abroad knew about the ordinary concentration camps. The first extermination camp liberated was Majdanek (in a suburb of Lublin, Poland), which was liberated by the Soviet Army in July, 1944. They invited journalists from Allied countries to visit it and report on what they found. Auschwitz was liberated on 27 January 1945.

On the eve of World War 2 there were an estimated 9.4-9.5 million Jews in Europe and after the war about 3.4 million.

It was all part of the larger Nazi program to persecute, intimidate, & brutalize Jews. This program later developed into the full-blown operation to exterminate (murder) the entire Jewish population.

no one, everyone was a victim in one way or another.

The first time Jews were put into concentration camps for being Jewish was after Kristalnacht, some were returned, some perished and others stayed in the system. In 1940 some were held in labour camps, but it was not really until 1941 that Jews were rounded up and put wholesale into concentration camps.

"Because it is Armenian propoganda and did not really happen!" says the initial poster of this question. There real answer is because of people like this person. Over the last century the Turkish government has done everything in its power to promote forgetting the genocide and to rational the great crime. There were no nuremberg trials which is why it was less known of and not as globally recognized as the Jewish Holocaust. Its was hidden under the cloak of war and is slowly getting the recognition it deserves (Twenty-one countries including Sweden, Argentina and Canada and forty-three states of the United States of America have recognized the Armenian Genocide, with and overwhelming majority of historians in support).

Anne Frank has many qualities of being a role model. She had inspired many people to keep on moving on and hope for the best.Her diary has proven to many people that in order for your dreams to come true,you have to believe in yourself and also,believe in your dreams.That is how her dream of becoming a writer did come true after all,even after her death!

Some Germans agreed and some didn't. The Germans that didn't agree would hide the Jewish people from Hitler. Now, don't forget there were many different types of Jews and Germans. I know that might not make since but just look that part on-line if you feel like it. There was a group that really believed in Hitler's beliefs and they were called Nazis there are still some ignorant people this day that agree with them or are Nazis. The Jews obviously hated him and they hated the Nazis and some Germans but they wouldn't have hated Germans if half of them still stayed friends with Jews. I just want to make it clear that Germans were still friends with Jews for a while for example Anne Frank's diary but I didn't read that. Basically, Anne Frank's family was close to another German family and that German family hid them in an attic. So they were very very helpful. America would have had a reaction right away and help right away at least I hope they would have but they didn't know about what was happening to the Jews so they couldn't help. Once they found out that the Jews were sent to concentration camps they came to help. Then they got Israel. So basically all the news about war between Israel and Palestine and all the other countries fighting with Israel it's pretty much because of the land that Israel now owns. If my answer is not good enough than go on GOOGLE. :) I hoped this helped.

Most people wants to remember of what happened during the holocaust because it reminds people who sick, cruel and evil humans can be. Also, people remembers it because it may be horrific bad but it very interesting

They were proclaimed in Nuremberg.

The Nuremberg Laws, enacted in 1935, institutionalized racial discrimination against Jews in Nazi Germany, stripping them of citizenship and civil rights. These laws led to widespread social and economic ostracization, as Jews were barred from various professions and public life. Ultimately, the Nuremberg Laws set the stage for more extreme measures, contributing to the systematic persecution and genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust. The laws also served as a model for racial legislation in other countries.

Once Jews were in ghettos, labour camps or extermination camps escape was extremely difficult. A few people managed to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto through a tunnel that they dug. However, getting out was only half the battle: they had to avoid capture once out of the ghetto. An estimated 300 prisoners, not all of them Jews, succeeded in escaping from the Auschwitz group of camps, out of at least 1.3 million who were sent there ... However, only two (!) survived Belzec, where 434,508 Jews were slaughtered. (These two managed to escape). The most successful mass break out, at Sobibor in 1943, enabled about 250 prisoners to escape, and of these only about 50 were still alive at the end of the war ... If by escape you mean avoid the Holocaust by reaching a safe country, such as the US or Britain before the Holocaust began and if you include those who hid successfully the figure is of couse much higher - probably about 400,000.

Same thing what happened to the rest of the victims.

The term Holocaust survivor is often used in a very vague sense: it does not always mean someone who emerged alive from an extermination camp or concentration camp ... For example, people who managed to hide succesfully from the Nazis also count as Holocaust survivors. There are difficulties of defintion. When, in 1940, all Jews in Warsaw were ordered to move into the area designated as the ghetto, some fled to eastern Poland, which had been occupied by the Soviet Union. In June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. However, provided that these Jews could stay behind Soviet lines there were safe. Do they count as survivors? Some countries occupied by the Nazis had their own pro-Nazi governments, for example, France. The willingness or otherwise of these collaborators to hand over Jews to the Nazis varied. For example, Vichy France handed over Jewish refugees from Germany but, on the whole, was less willing to hand over Jews who had French citizenship ... Of course, there were also Nazi installed puppet governments, which simply obeyed. Please also see the related question below.

It was the 1930s, the height of the Great Depression, and almost all countries had strict immigration controls, so people leaving Nazi Germany could not be that choosy. Many emigrated to: * The U.S. * Britain * France * The Netherlands * Belgium * Switzerland * Czechoslovakia * Australia * Argentina (till late 1938, when Argentina refused to accept more refugees) Obviously, those who fled to Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Belgium and France later came under the control of the Nazis again. (Anne Frank and her family are an example of this).

Jews were viewed as foreigners due to their non-Christian beliefs in a Christian environment.

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Jews lived in ghettos for a few reasons. Jews were viewed in many different countries as foreigners for their non-christian beliefs and were treated unfairly as a result of that. Often, in Russia especially, violent acts against Jewish people were committed, called pogroms.

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See also the related question on the Nazi ghettos, which were deliberately exceptionally harsh - the last step away before mass murder.

It depends on what you mean by closed. If you mean sealed off fron the surrounding area, the date varied from ghetto to ghetto, but if you mean shut down, emptied ('liquidated') last of the ghetto in Poland to be dissolved was the Lodz Ghetto in August 1944: the remaining inhabitants were transported to Auschwitz.

the Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional story that takes place in Auchwitz concentration camp in Poland. the film is about a boy affected by the holocaust, so there isn't a specific difference.

Japanese Internment Camps were in the United States. They housed the Japanese Americans in these camps to search for spies and keep them from turning into spies. These camps were deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. So they were held illegally. The camp conditions were miserable. They had inadequate housing, bathrooms, food, and many did get sick from the camps. There were not killed or beaten or shot as the people were in the German Concentration camps. Some of the Japanese sons joined the war to prove their allegiance to the United States. The Japanese lost their homes, businesses and possessions. Some Japanese farmers had nice neighbors who kept their farms grow and producing and kept their houses safe but this was the exception not the rule. Many Americans back then were prejudiced against the Japanese, Chinese and other Asians. Truly sad.

The German Concentration camps were filled with Jewish people slated to be killed or used for free hard labor. They were also filled with the "undesirables" the Nazis wanted out of the population. They were communists, political prisoners, religious people, dwarfs, Downs Syndrome people, feeble minded, people with congenital defects, the mentally ill and anyone else they felt like putting into the camps. There were POW camps too. In the camps the conditions were not merely miserable they were deplorable. They were filthy, disease ridden, and the buildings had no heat or beds. The prisoners were put into pajamas. They did not all have coats or shoes. The camps were designed to kill and cremate the people. Some camps had gas chambers to kill thousands of Jews daily. The people died from disease, exposure, dehydration, starvation, dysentery and murder by the Nazis. One of the most horrible things that happened to the prisoners was the medical experiments conducted on them. I couldn't write what happened to them. This entire project of eliminating people Hitler did not approve of was called The Final Solution. His goal was to have the population be only of pure Aryan descent. Incidentally, there is no medical word/fact or sociological human grouping of "Aryans". It was a word Hilter borrowed from some books he read.

Elie and all the others walked to gleiwitz and then from there they were moved to buchenwald where Elie's father died and where they were all liberated by the americans.

No. Some hid and some fled. A small number managed to get forged documents showing that they were not Jews.

In addition, there were also Jews beyond Hitler's reach, for example, in the US and Britain.

She died in March 1945 (exact date unknown) in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The first inmates of Nazi concentration camps were Communists, Social Democrats and various political dissidents.

(The first inmates of the first concentration camp was women and children of the Boer nation in South Africa - 1898)

(There were also Spanish concentration camps in Cuba in the mid 1895s).