40c - analyze the impact of the Holocaust on Georgians
HOLOCAUST
HOLOCAUST
- Many concentration camps (Auschwitz, Buckenwald, Dachau, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen) were set up by the Nazis as the “final solution to the Jewish problem.” Holocaust was the name given to the systematic extermination (killing) of 6 million Jews and 5-6 million people labeled as undesirable were also killed. In camps, the prisoners (including children) died from starvation, disease, mistreatment, and medical experiments. Others were gassed in chambers that they thought were showers and those bodies were incinerated in huge ovens or thrown into mass graves (Jews, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled).Those who survived had a constant reminder of their time at the camps because of a number branded on their arms. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, established by an act of Congress, opened in Washington D.C.. in April 1993. The museum was created as a memorial to the 6 million Jews and millions of other victims who perished in the holocaust. In Georgia, the Jewish population thrived, especially in major cities such as Atlanta and Savannah. Jews were mostly found in Urban areas and there were also many Jewish leaders; Jacob Rothschild and Harold Hirsch. There were many places that celebrated the Jewish culture and there way of life. In conclusion, the effect of the Holocaust was minimal on the Jews in Georgia, even though Jews did receive some type of discrimination from time to time.
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