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Why Is It Important To Learn About The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a tragic event that after 83 years many people still remember. The Holocaust is the biggest genocide in human history. It is important to learn about the Holocaust because it helps citizens foster a caring and responsible society. It helps us study the behavior of the part-takers so that a genocide of any kind will never happen. It also helps us see how our decisions have an effect on us and others. Adolf Hitler joined a small political party in 1919. Hitler was the precursor to the Nazi party, and was committed to have a "pure" Germany. Hitler was good at giving emotional and captivating speeches. He was sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis' to an unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch." In 1921, Hitler gains …show more content…

Women and children were beat and men were murdered and rounded up to go to concentration camps. These attacks came after Herschel Grynszpan shot a member of the German Embassy. In two days, over 250 synagogues we burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were looted and dozens of Jewish people were killed. There were six major concentration camps located in Poland. In Chlemo, a concentration and extermination camp 320,000 were killed in gas vans. Auschwitz consisted of three concentration camps. It was a concentration and extermination camp, where 1,200,000 were killed by gas chambers. In Belzek, 600,000 Jews were killed by gas. Sobibor had five gas chambers, and 250,000 were killed. In Treblinka, 700,000 Jews were killed by being gassed in bath houses. The ghettos were streets where Jewish people lived. The three main ghettos were Lodz, Warsaw, and Theresienstadt. It had horrible living conditions. They were non-sanitary, bad electricity, extremely crowded, and there was not enough food. Contagious diseases spread rapidly due to all of these bad conditions. Everyday children became orphaned, and many had to take care of younger

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