Holocaust Museum Assignment
Nazi prisoners were distinguished into nine different categories. The Jewish people were labeled with a yellow triangle. Emigrants were labeled with a blue triangle. American POWs were dressed in their uniforms but were given German dog tags. The Jehovah’s Witnesses were given taken into camps because they did not agree with what was going on. They were given purple triangles. None of these categories surprised me, because the Nazi’s eliminated anyone who didn’t fit their criteria or anyone who got in their way.
Hyde Farmland incorporated created Gross Breesen, an institution for Jewish Students. The institution prepared them for emigration out of Nazi Germany. It was successful in sending one hundred fifty students…show more content… It was a scapegoat to attack Jews after a German Ambassador was assassinated by a Jewish Teenager. Many Jewish businesses and homes were damaged during these two days. 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps and a total of 91 Jews were killed during this event. The Jewish Community was expected to pay all the damages for their businesses and homes which ranged around 400 million dollars.
After the mass murder of Jews in Lithuania in June of 1941. The remaining 40,000 Lithuanian Jews were sent to the Capital: Kovno. They were put in cramped and unsanitary conditions. They were starving with the food rations they were getting. They were given About 200 grams of bread and 150 grams of meat. This lead to a black market of smuggling food into these…show more content… Their purpose was to help Jews and fight the Enemy in anyway they could. They would raid enemy soldiers and blow up the train tracks where they traveled. These partisans were made up of Jewish Men and Women and Non Jewish Men and Women. They were located in the Forest of Europe were they survived by trading. There were thirty-thousand partisans that fought from 1941 to 1945.
The Final Solution was a term that the Nazi’s used to eliminate all of Europe’s Jews. This initiated the beginning of the Jewish Genocide. Nazis had prepared for months to send all of Jews to extermination camps. Prisoners were stripped of their belongings and separated into groups: the fit an unfit. The unfit were sent the to the showers where the Nazis unleashed Zyklon B gas and killed them. In the concentration camps, prisoners were starved and forced to work. Those who died in the camp were sent to the crematorium. Between 1941 and 1945, the death toll of Jewish lives was three million. The displaced persons camp was a camp from emigrants and the survivors of the Holocaust, created by the Allies. Its purpose was to house those who escaped the concentration camps. The conditions of them weren’t very different from the concentration camps though. There was shortages of food and unsanitary conditions. Although the Jews were free, they still were
