Topic > The Lasting Effects of the Holocaust - 587

Millions of innocent people killed, children, women and men. Families separated and massacred, burned alive, shot and gassed. The horrific events of the Holocaust will never be forgotten. They were treated like animals and worked until they died, they were slaves. Taken from their homes, sent to ghettos, then sent to concentration camps for forced labor and to be killed. If you had tried to escape and failed, the consequences would have been horrible, you would have been tortured until you revealed the names of your accomplices, then you would have been publicly executed. These gruesome events went on for over a decade and all because one man said they didn't fit his idea of ​​the perfect race. A race known as the Aryans, blonde hair and blue eyes. Dark hair and brown eyes were unacceptable. The monster who started this terrifying event was Adolf Hitler. One of the major contributors to death in the Holocaust was starvation. The Nazis gave them little to no food to survive each day. Stale bread and clear soup were what their daily ration consisted of. Then during the winters...