7.2.2+Genocide

= = toc = = =Description= The Holocaust is the name given to the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies etc. by the Nazis during World War II. The German powers thought the Jewish people were inferior to them. So they though of the "Final Solution" or the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, factories of death, such as at Auschwitzs-Birkenau, Sobibor, Chelmno and Treblinka were built to ensure that the mass murders were carried out. These were a part of the final solution. These factories of death were called concentration camps. The prisoners in the camps were forced to do labor. They had to live in terrible condition. They had little food and barley any hygienic means. The Jewish people were murdered by either starvation, disease, poisonous gases, or the crematory in these concentration camps.

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people because of there race, or religion. Hitler blamed the Jews for losing WW I, so he wanted to “get rid of them.” He made many concentration camps, and killed 6 million Jews in the concentration camps. After the Allies had won WW II, they discovered the concentration camps and were horrified. We couldn’t send them back to there home towns, because many didn’t have homes, or there were conflicts about Jews there. We had to put them somewhere, so we made Displaced Person camps. Then once we sent them to Palestine. The Muslims were very angry by this. Ever since then these two religions have been fighting.

During the Holocaust it was a very bad problem. People were being killed for no reason. Hitler came up with the final solution. It was where Hitler wanted to wipe out everyone that believed in anything different then him. Anyone who wasn't Jewish and believed in other things, he went after them and took them too.

To conclude, how to get rid of the Jews was a question answered by Adolf Hitler. His answer was to murder Jews throughout Europe along with other races that were believed to be "sub-humans". This answer was called the “Final Solution,” a solution that started in the summer of 1941 and was believed to answer the “Jewish Question” and create an end to the Jews. German powers created factories of death to insure that this "solution" worked. Many Jews were killed, but when the allies won WWII they liberated the camps. The survivors were first sent off to displaced persons camps and then were sent to different countries in the world to start new.

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Nicholas and Jessica
This video contains pictures that may be disturbing to some viewers; viewer discretion is advised. The purpose of this video is to show people how awful the conditions were in the concentration camps, and how horribly the people were being treated. Some of the challenges that we faced was finding music that would fit with the pictures and the theme of the movie. Another challenge that we faced was finding pictures that were not terribly graphic. media type="custom" key="8912990"

Brianna and Justin
This video shows pictures of people from the Holocaust, and what things looked like during it. Some of these pictures are very graphic, and are sad because it shows how skinny people were and shows dead people. The Nazi’s treated the people very badly, and many of the peoples starved and died. In the pictures, you can tell all they looked like was skin and bones. It was really easy to find the pictures, because there is a lot of them. It was a little hard to put them together just so that they made sense. media type="custom" key="9093556"

Mckenna
The video shows pictures of children and adults during the Holocaust times.Sad and revealing pictures show how sad this was. Music describes the pictures within in the movie.The Holocaust marks a bad time in history.The Holocaust pictures that were found were so heart breaking and terrible to look at. So many people were killed and tortured.The video shows pictures of children and adults during the Holocaust times.Sad and revealing pictures show how devastating this was. Music describes the pictures within in the movie.The Holocaust marks a bad time in history and always will. Hatred put forth people who were a difference race,what they believed in and if they had a disability. These Jews and other people lived in concentration camps. They went without food,warm and good shelter, clothes, and they worked for sun up to sun down.Children were working as well, without going with a good amount of healthy food. They were killed if they were slacking at a job, or if they talked back to someone in charge. If children were not kept under control and did not do what was told they were killed as well.The holocaust is a scary part to look upon, and a scary part of history. media type="custom" key="9092662"

Brittany and Alyssa
The video shows what happened to the people during the Holocaust time.Its sad to see the pictures of people and see the tragedy also some of the pictures are disturbing. It shows the horror of how they were treated. It was a bad time in history. media type="custom" key="8911178"

**Grace Hilarides** This video tells what the Holocaust was. It tells what process the Jews and prisoners had to go through going into concentration camps. It also tells the liberation of the camps and where the prisoners went afterward. The video contains some graphic pictures. The Holocaust was a brutal act on Jews and the prisoners of the German powers. Many people died harsh deaths during the Holocaust. It was a dark point in history. media type="custom" key="9093554"

Thaya
The Holocaust was a tragedy that took place towards the end of World War II when Hitler and the Nazi’s basically took anyone who wasn’t “their own kind” and held them prisoner. They took people from the ghetto and put them in concentration camps and used them for labor. While there, they contracted many different diseases, were severely tortured and even murdered.
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By the end of World War II over 6 million Jews had been murdered in Nazi concentration camps. 1.5 million of them were children. Hitler’s soldiers had destroyed 5,000 Jewish communities. The Jews who died were not casualties of the fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. Rather, they were the victims of German’s deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. A plan of Hitler’s that he called the “Final Solution.” Nazi soldiers had come into homes and forced 40 people to a boxcar with no food or water, with only a bucket in the corner as a toilet. One by one the Jews were strip searched and given ragged clothes. Their heads and genital areas were shaved. They had numbers burnt into their arms and sewn on their clothes. Separated by gender they were put to labor immediately. Children were even taken away from their parents. All 300 were bathed in polluted water and very weak enough to where they would collapse trying to walk. Out of 6 million Jews only 100 had survived. On March 21, 1942 the ghetto was raided by the Nazi soldiers and 3700 Jews were forced to be driven into a ditch about a mile away from the ghetto and shot in cold blood. A few months later over 6 million Jews were caught and taken to the camps. The Holocaust had ended on May 8th, 1945 during the end of the War. Hitler had committed suicide after the War had ended, because Germany had lost. He never regretted what he did to all those people who had been in those camps. The German’s had decided to let all of the Jewish prisoners go after surrendering. The Allies had came into Germany and let go all the people in the concentration camps. The Holocaust was a tragic event the never should happened. Why it happened we never may know other than Hitler was a very disturbed individual for thinking he had the right to play God.

Chaise White
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Alexis Musselman
My video is about the Holocaust. My video includes pictures that tell a story about people in the Holocaust. There are picture's in here that might disturb people. The purpose of my video is to give people an idea of the conditions and consequences of the Holocaust. People will not understand the torture that these people went through. There are people that are going to tell you a short part of their experiences from that time. My goal for this video is to try and help people understand what was going on during this time. Some of the challenge's that I faced during this project was finding picture's and making them fit into the story line. I also had problems finding music for the background. media type="custom" key="9092820"