What did Jewish people go through during the Holocaust?

Answer 1

In most of Nazi controlled Europe the Jews were put in concentration camps where they were worked, starved, and tortured until they died. Jews were more than worked to death! Life in in Germany was hell even before the death camps but as for those camps; Jews were forced from their homes and driven in cattle cars (on trains) so full of people that it was impossible to sit down for days at a time, across often frozen country side with no food (the only water coming from what was sprayed on top of the cars and dripped through). Many people died in these trains from hunger, sickness and the cold. Once at the camps those who survived were forced to parade naked by a line of Nazi men who decided who should live and who should die. Families were torn apart with no rhyme or reason. Many people and all the children were sent into gas chambers disguised as showers where they were put to death and then their bodies burnt in large ovens or disvsrded in open quicklime graves. Those who werent killed immediatly had numbers tattooed into their arms and then were forced to do hard labor with nothing but mere scraps of bread and/or soup and little rest. Children were used for medical expeements. Living conditions were unthinkably horrible. People living in the camps endured torture both physical and psychological. Some people were forced to dig their own graves and then shot in them for no reason. We must Never Forget the tragedies that happened there not just to the Jews but also to the Gypsies, homosexuals, transgendered people, Poles, mentally impaired, and Communists If you want an EASY read to understand a little more try Night by Elie Weisel. When Jewish women gave birth to children, immediantly they were suffocated. Why? This would have saved the child from death through no food. The mother would be so weak, she wouldn't be able to produce breast milk for the baby to feed from. This seemed the only nice way to kill it, and it would save it enduring terrible and agonising starvation in the Ghettos (Where the Jews were forced to live.) They were only given 300 calories a day in food, where as the average adult today should eat at least 2500. This shows how starved they became. They were ordered to wear yellow stars to allow others to publicly know they were Jewish. The stores and businesses they owned in many cities were smashed and destroyed by Stormtroopers. Police and military, such as the SS, harassed them. There were cases of Jewish women being publicly raped in the street. At first mostly Communists, labor leaders, and outspoken journalists were arrested on various trumped up charges of plotting against the state of Germany. Most of these people were thrown in jail without any fair trial, beaten and tortured, and either sent to labor camps or executed. Later, the Nuremburg Laws allowed the German Government to arrest Jews and legally hold them, sometimes for either being married to Gentile women or for being accused of sexual relations with Gentile women (which carried the death penalty). Some Jewish people, terrified of the growing oppression, applied for passports to leave Germany and Austria--with the prices of such being raised to exorborant levels that many could not afford. Some fled, leaving all their possessions and other family members behind. Some stayed, with no other choice or not realizing that Hitler had a "Final Solution" planned. In Eastern Europe, many Jewish people had not heard of the things going on in Germany, and remembered that the Germans had not been cruel to local populations in World War I. They had no reason to believe the Nazis would implement such a horrible plan. Eventually, most Jewish people were rounded up into communities, their freedom restricted, forced to do prescribed labor. Various groups would be packed onto trains, told they were being resettled in the east. They were either taken to labor camps, worked and starved, or were directly taken to killing pits in Eastern Europe, shot and killed. If German soldiers were attacked or injured by local people in the war, Jewish people (and Gentiles) in local areas would be rounded up and shot or taken off to camps. They were subjected to starvation, beatings, forced labor, medical experiments, rape. Eventually, Hitler and officials in the Nazi government felt that not enough Jews were being killed, so they devised false showers that had Zyklon B poison the people when they were in the camps. The bodies had their gold fillings removed, any clothes or jewelry were taken away for the Nazi's use. Millions of people, Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the mentally and physically handicapped, dissidents, homosexuals, even some Germans, were placed in these camps, some were labor camps, some were extermination camps. Most Jewish people were sent to the latter. There are still mass burial sites in Eastern Europe. Those who wanted to leave Germany had to: 1. Pay for permission to leave the country. (The amount, calculated as a percentage of one's assets, rose from year to year). 2. Have somewhere and something to go to! In the 1930s much of the world was still suffering from the Great Depression and was reluctant to let in large numbers of refugees. In addition, anti-semitism (not of the extreme Nazi variety, but still prejudice nonetheless) was widespread in other countries. If at all possible, people of working age needed a job to go to. Otherwise, they would have to depend on the hospitality of friends, relatives or live off charity (if available). 3. Even after finding a job in, say Britain or America, paying for permission to leave Germany and paying the fare to their new country, Jews weren't allowed to take their remaining money with them after about 1935. It had to stay in Germany. Long before the start of the Holocaust the plight of many German Jews was grim. Note. In the interests of fairness, it should be added that political refugees from Nazi Germany (not of Jewish heritage) faced similar problems

Answer 2

they have gone though a halocaust and the process of elimination because Hitler wanted a pure race and a pure religion

Answer 3

The Israelites (Jews) journeyed for 40 years in the Sinai wilderness under the guidance of Moses, at God's command.