The Time of the Forgotten

By R. Ochs

Auschwitz is a concentration camp in Germany

meant to hold up Jewish people, gypsies and homosexuals. Around the concentration camp were electric fences to keep others from escaping. 20% of the people who arrived such as old people that are unable to work or mothers with their children would be sent away to the gas chambers. Auschwitz killed over one million people during the Holocaust, more than any other concentration camp. The camp is guarded by trusted Nazi officers called “Trusties.”

Auschwitz

AuschwitzBarracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken after liberation of camp, January 29, 1945.

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Heinrich Müller was the leader of the Gestapo during

the Holocaust. As leader of the Gestapo, he had to obey Hitler’s orders. He had to make up laws to limit Jewish rights as Jews called the Nuremberg Laws. He want in and took over Jewish businesses for Hitler. After that, he went and took all the valuables the Jews had. Hitler’s idea was the master race, the Gestapo helped his dream come true.

Heinrich Müller

Heinrich MüllerHeinrich Müller. Head of Gestapo and nicknamed “Gestapo Müller.”

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Kristallnacht is an event where many Jewish houses

were destroyed. Kristallnacht translates to “Night of the Broken Glass”, where they broke windows in Jewish stores and businesses. Within one night, all Jewish were either burned or left with no belongings untouched. Some houses were so violent that the actually Jewish owners killed in these houses. The destruction against the Jews went on in multiple towns and cities in German territory.

Kristallnacht

KristallnachtJewish-owned shop destroyed during Kristallnacht (“Night of the Broken

Glass”) Berlin, Germany, November 1938

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Oskar Schindler was a German spy who survived

the Holocaust. When all the Jews in Poland were losing their businesses when he went there. He wanted a store in Poland so he made a store to supply German troops with weapons. The Germans who saw him didn’t recognize he’d be a Jew if he helped them out. Schindler made a list called Schindler’s List of all the Jewish boys and girls that he could record down. He helped save Jews out of concentration camps such as one where he saved 100 of 10,000 from freezing to death. Later, he brought them back to a hospital to restore them back to health.

Oskar Schindler

Oskar SchindlerOskar Schindler. Maker of the Schindler’s List. Holocaust survivor.

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The Warsaw Ghetto was a fight in the Ghettos

against the Nazis. When the Germans invaded the Ghettos, they went and fought back. Kids tried to sneak in food, but the Germans found out about it and sometimes killed the kid. The Germans arrested many and sent them away to death camps and concentration camps. They blew up the hiding places of many Jews, finding and imprisoning them after words.

Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw GhettoRuins of the Warsaw ghetto after the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland, May 1943

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Zyklon B is a highly poisonous gas used for gas

chambers in German concentration camps. Zyklon B is the commercial name for Hydrogen Cyanide or HCW. The gas was supplied to camps through cyanide pipes so that none of it would escape. The Germans wanted a odor to warn Jews of their death, they didn’t want to provide that. Between 1940-1944, the gassing of Jews doubled because of some German citizens and military being very suspicious. The gassing would’ve worked until they were found out in January 1945.

Zyklon B

Zyklon BZyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek Camp. Poland after July 1944.

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