the holocaust

The Holocaust was a horrible time. Part of this tragedy was the concentration camps. During the 1930s and 1940s, German Nazi leaders established 22 concentration camps where Jews, but also along with Gypsies, homosexuals, Communists, Slav, and others who were judged undesirable were imprisoned. Most prisoners were worked to death, shot, gassed, or given lethal injections. By the end of the war, six million people had died in concentration camps. Here is an inside look on …

…did not punish them, they would kill them by drowning them in water-tubs, hanging, throwing them down stone quarries, beating them to death with an ax or shovel, or bathing them to death – which was exposing them to cold water until they died after some 30 minutes. Thinking of these situations is terrorizing. It is unthinkable that a human being could treat another human in such a way. The Holocaust should never have to happen again.