Jessie May B - West Exe School

THE HOLOCAUST
Hitler was the cause, he hated the Jews. The reason
for the hate against the Jews isn't clear. How he got
many against them was due to his speaking skills
telling many just what they wanted to hear. He knew
how to persuade an audience and he took it to his
advantage. Other than that, they took anyone who
was a Jew, crippled etc... Jews had to wear a big
yellow star and those who where taken to the camps
were either worked as slaves or murdered right on
spot. Jewellery, glasses, and even gold teeth were
taken away. barley any food for them to eat. The
mentally challenged or cripple was experimented on
and some were told that they were going to take a
shower and was sent in a gas chamber. Others
thrown in a oven.
The Holocaust =
The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in
Nazi concentration camps during World War II
First they came for the
Socialists, and I did
not speak out
…….Because I was not a
Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak
out….Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out….
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me…. and there was no one left to speak for me.
If we forget what is there to stop this from happing again.
The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million
children, including over a million Jewish children and tens of thousands
of Romani (Gypsy) children, German children with physical and mental
disabilities living in institutions, Polish children.
Joanna Millan
One of only few children to survive and still be around to tell her story.
Many were not that lucky.