The Holocaust
Things that I learned from Notes and Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech.
From Mrs. Dekelbaum's speech, I learned that happened
6 years before World War 2. I learned that during , more than
six million Jews, and four million non-Jews, were killed by the Nazis.
The non-Jews that were killed in the Holocaust were, gypsies, homosexuals,
disabled people, ill people, relatives of Jewish people, and people who
helped the Jews. There is a saying about the Holocaust that says, "Not all
victims were Jewish, but all Jews were victims." There was a girl named
Pearl. She went through nine concentration camps, and survived. Pear was
the first Jew to have a baby who survived, and do to that, it brought ...
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one letter into a secret message telling the Jews that it was a bad
place, where they die.
In class from the notes I learned that, World-wide depression had
many Germans out of work, and they were hungry. Because of that, the
Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year,
Hitler began a boycott of Jewish business. The Jews lost their jobs in
government and public services. Jewish children got segregated form school.
All Jewish people received a curfew. Hitler blamed the Depression on the
Jews, and they became scapegoats. In 1935 laws were pasted saying that
Jews were no longer citizens, and that marriage between Jews and Aryans was
forbidden. On March, 1938, Germans troops occupied Austria. On November,
1938, the Crystal Night happened. During that night, Germans burned and
looted synagogues all over Germany. On September, 1939, Germany invaded
Poland in "Lighting War," and War was declared. The same year, England and
France became Allies ...
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