The Holocaust was a time during World War II that involved millions of Jews’ death, and ultimately this led to a mass genocide that wiped out more than an quarter of the Jewish population.
The war started in 1941 and ended in may 8, 1945, which ended because of Adolf Hitler committed suicide. There were a total of 6 million deaths and between 250,000 to 300,000 survived. At the concentration camps, those in charge would punish and work Jewish people to death they would kill them with gas chambers and fire teams.
The Nazis would hire scientists to to experiment with the Jewish people to which they would try to change skin, hair and eye color, and they were obsessed with twins and using radiation to see what it would do to humans. Hitler would take the skin of Jews and make them into handbags for his wife.
“Holos” which is greek for whole and “kaustos” which is greek for burned make the monstrous catastrophe that was the Holocaust.
Many well-known and well-regarded people were also Holocaust survivors, including Miriam Mozes, Simone Veil, Otto Frank, Elie Wiesel, Dr Ruth Westheimer.
“Forgetting the Holocaust is like killing twice,” Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night,” said.
The Auschwitz Concentration camp was the largest concentration camp in the holocaust and had the highest death count and Auschwitz was origanly six difrent camps that combined together and became one big concentration camp and was located in Poland,Europe and is still here to this day and tourist can take an tour guide and see the terrors of Auschwitz.
Among those who died in the Holocaust was Anne Frank, whose diary has become a literary classic for its discussion of the war and persecution of the Jewish people.
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart,” Frank said.
