Around 6 million people were killed in the holocaust. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. He wanted wanted to eliminate all jews, and wasn't going to let anyone stop him. The Holocaust was a horrible part of the world's history and will forever be one because of the huge deaths numbers and the horrible actions that took place. The book Night was a huge symbol and example of what actually happened during the Holocaust. It was extremely interesting, intense, and depressing. I learned a huge amount of things about the Holocaust I had no idea about before. I always knew about concentration camps, but I never knew what really happened there. I especially didn’t know about one of the well known concentration camps,
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It was the largest concentration camp in the Holocaust. Auschwitz was originally a detention center for political prisoners, but soon evolved into a network of camps where jews and other unaccepted people were brought to work and die. When you first arrived at Auschwitz you were either put to work according to your gender and age. If you were a man or over a certain age you were put to work in horrible conditions and were extremely lucky if you made it out alive. Only certain women were put to work, the rest of the women and all of the children were sent to the crematorium or killed in different ways. By the end of the Holocaust, Auschwitz had the highest number of deaths then any other camp and killed almost 1 million people, and only about 200,000 people survived (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz). By learning about the holocaust and reading this you now understand a little bit of what went on during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was awful, depressing, and a little bit confusing for many people. All concentration camps were horrible. They were all on a mission to do one thing, eliminate. Auschwitz did that quickly, and achieved greatly in what they were trying to accomplish. They eliminated almost all the people they were planning on eliminating. Auschwitz was extremely horrific, it was just one major symbol of how dreadful and hard the Holocaust actually
It was the largest concentration camp in the Holocaust. Auschwitz was originally a detention center for political prisoners, but soon evolved into a network of camps where jews and other unaccepted people were brought to work and die. When you first arrived at Auschwitz you were either put to work according to your gender and age. If you were a man or over a certain age you were put to work in horrible conditions and were extremely lucky if you made it out alive. Only certain women were put to work, the rest of the women and all of the children were sent to the crematorium or killed in different ways. By the end of the Holocaust, Auschwitz had the highest number of deaths then any other camp and killed almost 1 million people, and only about 200,000 people survived (http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz). By learning about the holocaust and reading this you now understand a little bit of what went on during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was awful, depressing, and a little bit confusing for many people. All concentration camps were horrible. They were all on a mission to do one thing, eliminate. Auschwitz did that quickly, and achieved greatly in what they were trying to accomplish. They eliminated almost all the people they were planning on eliminating. Auschwitz was extremely horrific, it was just one major symbol of how dreadful and hard the Holocaust actually