Chelmno Holocaust

Describe: Liesel and her best friend, Rudy Steiner, has been walking through town when a woman in a window above them looks to the streets and announces, “Die Juden;” The Jews. This is when a vast amount of Jewish prisoners begins to march their way down Munich Street while Nazi soldiers barked orders at them. To everyone, especially Liesel (who had a Jewish person living in her basement), this was the furthest thing from a pleasant sight. And apparently, Hans Hubermann had enough of this, as if being controlled by God himself, Hans walked over and offered a particularly weak Jew a piece of bread out of pure sympathy, only to be beaten by overlooking Nazis.

On January 17, 1945 the SS and police ordered Jewish forced laborers to start cleaning all traces at Chelmno: “they exhume and cremate the corpses from the last of the mass graves at Chelmno and then kill half of them” (1941 - 1945 Timeline). Chelmno is abandoned. In total, about 340,000 people were killed in Chelmno, including 5,000 Gypsies, about 100,000 Jews and thousands of others. (Feldman 219)

By autumn 1941, the SS and police established gas vans (“USHMC, 1999”). They pumped poisonous carbon monoxide gas into small spaces, killing anything within its reach. On July 17th of 1941, Hitler told SS Chief Heinrich Himmler it was his responsibility to take care of all the security in the Soviet Reunion. One of the things Heinrich had to do was to get rid of any threats to the German rule. On July 31, 1941, the Nazi leader Hermann Goering told General Reinhard Heydrich to make the preparations for the execution.

They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. “Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (Wiesel 16).

Six million people, who were all Jews from men and women to children and infants, suffered grievous oppression. Those were six million people who were innocently murdered. Not only that, but those six million people were the primary victims courtesy of a despotic Nazi assassination. This is the scenery of the Holocaust, a 4-year period of a systematically brutal decimation of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and so on and so forth. The Jews fled from Germany clandestinely to make sure that. According to the evidence amassed with the sources given, the Holocaust started through unchecked patriotism.

In the first 11 months, four and a half million people were killed or died. By the end of World War II, approximately six million Jews, including a little more than a million children, were murdered by Nazis. To persuade the prisoners to go into the gas chambers, signs such as ‘baths and disinfecting rooms’ and ‘cleanliness brings freedom’ were hung above the entrance. Gas from the chambers took about 20 minutes to kill everyone in the chamber; 6,000 people died everyday due to this sorcery. During the death marches, intolerable work, approximately 100,000 people died. Sixty percent of the Jews lived in Europe in 1933, which means that about forty percent of the Jewish population died during the holocaust in Europe. Only nine percent of Poland's Jews survived; however, 99% of the Jewish Denmark population survived. Unfortunately, only 2,500 Jewish people survived out of 4,500 in Estonia. Although, there were only 800,000 people in Hungary, 204,000 survived, which is a little more than one fourth of the initial Jewish population. Overall there are 195,000 survivors and counting. Five million of the 11 million people that were killed were non-Jewish. Most survivors are located in the United States or Canada, although many families have registered survivors from 59 other countries. However, most countries were largely unaware of the Holocaust and its scope until they were able to see the evidence themselves. Some felt guilty for surviving when six million suffered and died. One particular, Jeannine Burk, thought and said, "Why am I alive? Why is my father dead? Why did 6,000,000 die and I am alive?" Statistics show that Holocaust survivors are three times more likely to commit suicide. It is hard for some parents to tell their children what happened because they went through so

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They were used to provoke fear into prisoners, and ensured their escape was all but successful. Within the camps, guard towers were set up all around the main perimeter. Smaller areas of the camp held Ukrainian Guard Barracks, that of course housed, Ukrainian guards. Colonel General Christian Wirth, who was a former police officer was placed as the camp's first commander. During his time, he had command of about 20-33 SS men, and a guard unit up to 90-120 Ukrainians who were trained at The Trawniki Camp. According to this article, Wirth, “A former police officer who had played a leading role in implementing the T4 "euthanasia program," was appointed the first camp commander.” (Jewish Library

When the commanders noticed the men were being affected by the shootings some changes were made. First, the 101st Battalion was assigned to clearing the ghettos and loading people on trains destined for the Treblinka death camp. The SS-trained soldiers were then given the hard work which helped remove the police mentally from the deaths, and made their work much more efficient. Their jobs were clearing the people off of the trains and checking the towns. "By mid-November 1942, following the massacres at Jozefow, Lomzay, Serokomla, Konskowola, and elsewhere, and the liquidation of the ghettos in Miedzyrzec, Luków, Parczew, Radzyn, and Kock, the men of Reserve Battalion 101 had participated in the outright execution of at least 6,500 Polish Jews and the deportation of at least 42,000 more to the gas chambers of Treblinka." (121) After that the police battalion would move through the town checking the houses. They would sweep through the houses many times to make sure no one was hiding in corners. Everything the police did was done many times. They would even stand in line for hours checking the camps to make sure everyone was there. This started the massive hunts for the Jews and the men of the police battalion were forced to

The Holocaust was a tragic event in history, in that the death of six million Jews was at the hands of the leader Adolf Hitler. The tragic events in the Holocaust are what lead up to the development of Israel therefore, the Holocaust ties in with the state of Israel because the state of Israel was developed in result of the Holocaust, there was still threats and attacks on the Jews even after the development of Israel and without the tragedy of the Holocaust the Jews would not have any strive or support to build an establishment.

Resistance in the mist of WWII and the Holocaust occurred all across Europe and the occupied territories of Nazi Germany. The three groups I’m going to discuss are Zegota, White Rose, and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Each one of these came from three very different areas, but they each resisted Nazi ideology. Each group has their own reason for why they decided to take a stand, whether morally, politically, or religious reasons and while there are differences between the groups many of them have overlapping reasons for their desire to resist.

I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp

They made the prisoners walk in what was called “Death marches”. In Death marches around 60,000 Jews had to walk and keep walking like in a parade and the Nazis would stand at random spots in the camps and free shoot at all the prisoners. “Those who fell behind or were too slow or sick were shot, even women holding children” (Wood 456). It was an estimated number of around 100,000 Jews died on these death marches alone. At the end of World War 2, millions had died while in the concentration camps. Auschwitz alone was responsible for 1.5 million to 3 million deaths. On January 27, 1945, the Nazi Concentration Camp, Auschwitz, was liberated by the Soviets. This was a miracle to everybody. But between the years or 1933 and 1945 more than 10 million men, ladies and kids were dead. Once liberated, the United States of America troopers were afraid and afraid by what they saw and practiced. Any captive that was left behind alive were only too so much gone or to sick, discouraged, or disoriented to even understand that they'd been

Genocide is the destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group. The most famous genocide, conducted by the Germans, is the extermination of the Jewish population known as the Holocaust. There are other genocides such as the Armenian or Darfur genocide, but the Holocaust is the one talked about and studied the most around the world today. Museums exist in Washington D.C, Los Angeles, and parts of Europe that focus primarily on this dark time in history. Vast amounts of books, movies, and documents concentrate on the Holocaust. Why is this chapter, between 1939 and 1945, discussed and examined? The answer lies within people who experienced the Holocaust such as Elie Wiesel, Jay Frankston, and Franks Shatz. These men have gone through hell and back, but they believe in one thing. That is, the notion of never again. The goal is to educate future generations on what really happened, so history does not repeat itself. Never again should people of any race, religion, or ethnicity, go through the horrific past of the Holocaust. In their writing, Wiesel, Frankston, and Shatz do a great job using pathos, logos, and ethos to convey their message of never again for future generations.

As George Orwell himself once said, “no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” The truth is Snowball, Mr. Jones, and Napoleon would never let go of power if and when they attained it. George Orwell shows that power or having the idea of being the leader can get Snowball corrupt, he shows that power causes Mr. Jones to take without giving back, and lastly, Orwell shows that absolute power causes Napoleon to want more power no matter the cost. In his novel, Animal farm, George Orwell uses snowball, Mr. Jones, and Napoleon to demonstrate that absolute power corrupts absolutely.