The Holocaust

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German schools simply because of their religious beliefs. After that, people were beginning to be sent to ghettos. Ghettos were places where the Jews were isolated from other people. There were usually walls or fences to keep them in their own place, because they were basically rejected from society.
After spending some time in the ghettos, they were transported by cargo trains to what was called a concentration camp. It was basically like a prison, they had no rights, they were worked like slaves, and they were exposed to horrible conditions that killed over two thirds of the Jewish population in Europe.

People were packed onto the trains. There was no room to spare, for the Jews were packed in very close together, afraid to move. The Germans never hesitated to open fire on them. That resulted in many sick and wounded people on the trains. People often went for days without food or water on these trains.

The German troops would tell the people who were on the trains that men would ...

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killed even more people. Prisoners often said, “They had condemned us to die in our own filth.” They were known to have said, "They wished to destroy our human dignity, to fill us with horror and contempt for ourselves and our fellows."

Every morning when people would march to work, there would be many bodies of people who had committed suicide. Those were the people who had given up hope for rescue. They committed suicide by throwing themselves into or holding onto the electrified fences that surrounded the camps.

Many people were starving to death. There were many people who barely lived on their small rations. Some days there was no food at all. If they happened to be fed that ...

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