Holocaust

This week we have started some report writing about the holocaust. After researching this I believe that this is something that should never be forgotten. It is a very important part of the 20th centuries history and a subject that should not be taken lightly. I have read several times while doing my research, that the holocaust is one of the darkest and most terrible times ever recalled. The number of innocent lives that were spent is just horrendous.

Before researching this, I really had very little idea about what the holocaust was. I believe there is a lot of other people that still don't know what it is. I think that everybody should know what those people went through and why they went through it. Below is a brief summary of what the holocaust was.

It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler decided that Jews could not be counted as Germans. The Nazi party sorted Jews into ghettos, specific parts of cities, often very run down. After a while, they began sending them to concentration camps, a thousand at a time. There they had to do hard, physical labour, a lot of them died of starvation, exhaustion, or disease.  After a while, extermination camps were set up. They were set up for the sole purpose of killing of Jews. By May 1945, approximately six million people had been killed.

The holocaust really is one of the darkest and most terrible times ever recalled in history. Don't let yourself forget what happened.