How Did The Holocaust Happen

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Intro “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Elie Wiesel. Imagine your family is full of people who have no power and get treated unfairly all the time, and you can’t do anything about it. But one day you decide to start protesting. After you start protesting, more and more people will join in with you. This is what this quote is trying to say. That during the Holocaust, the Jews were powerless to prevent the injustice the Nazis were giving them. And ever since the Holocaust ended, people have protested because they knew that a horrific event like the Holocaust shouldn’t have happened. In this paper I'm going to talk about what the Jews had to experience during World War 2 during the Holocaust, which was an event of extermination and segregation and nobody deserved what they went through. …show more content…
Ghettos are enclosed spaces which were used to segregate the Jews from everyone else. Once all the Jews moved in, they were told to wear six-pointed yellow stars on all their clothing. Living in the ghettos was miserable for the Jews, because they were treated like their lives were so unimportant. Some people say that a bullet is more valuable than a Jewish person. Thousands of Jews at a time were arrested, chained together, and put on trains to be sent to concentration camps. In these camps, there were chambers where people would get gassed to death. Some rumors were spread that they would take the skin of dead people and turn them into lamp