2.+Jewish+persecution

How were the Jews persecuted?

Jewish persecutioin during World War II is the most known genocide in the history of our world. The unimaginable horror of the concentration camps still haunts people today. At the beggining of the war German soldiers or Nazi's started occupying towns and cities all around europe. At first it was a peaceful occupation but as Hitler's forces grew in number, the Nazi's became violent to all Jewish people. They burnt down Synagogues, Jewish owned shops, and houses. They attacked and killed them in the streets. Soon they made all Jews move to a closed off rundown part of town called Ghettos with little resources. They would take truckloads of Jews to pre-destined places and shoot them or toture them to death, but this was only the beginning after the Ghetto's the Jews were taken to what were called Concentration camps, some known are Auschwitz, Ravensbrooks, and Buma. In these camps Jews (and others) were shaved and given numbers after which they had to pass a selection by S.S. officers. Those who passed selection were given barely any food and worked to the bone. While those who hadn't passed selection were cremated alive in giant ovens or suffocated by gas. The countless horrors of the Concentration camps are hard to describe and even harder to imagine. By the end of the war more than 6 million Jews had been cruelly killed by Hitler's Nazi forces.





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