How were the women and children treated during the holocaust?
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The same way the men were treated.  I don't think words can describe how atrociously they were treated.\nDidn't you learn about this in history class?
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Most of the Poles where just as cruel as the Nazis themselves. Some of them actually joined the Nazis. Others reported the Jews to the Nazis to be killed, told out their hiding places, watched thousands of children die of starvation daily and did nothing. Treatment? Obviously not too nice. \n\nThere were some exceptions of some righteous people who went out of their way to help some Jews. Some hid Jews in their homes, gave them food...Although there werent to many of those.\n\nEven after the Holocaust they were filled with hatred to the few Jews who survived. They moved into their homes and stole all their belongings. There are stories of Jews who survived 5 torturous years in concentration camps only to be killed after the war by their fellow Poles - many of them who used to be their friends and neighbors. Then some people complain why we associate the Holocaust with Jews when so many others like Poles died. As you see, I have absolutely no pity for the Poles. They were wicked people and had no problem killing other innocent people. \n\nEven today, when my grandmother returns to Poland, every 5 years, to vistit the remains of her family (about 25 people = 10 immediate family members + nieces, nepehws sister and brother in laws. This does not include all her cousins, aunts and uncles who were killed) She walks on the street and the Poles curse her out in Polish "Hitler should have finished you off". Unknown to them she knows a perfect Polish and understands all they say. May they rot in Hell!!
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25 million world-wide.\n\n8 million were in German concentration camps, of which about 6.5 million were Jews.
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They all had problems with Jewish people.
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Here are a few good sources:\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/ National Holocaust Memorial Museum\nhttp://www.vhf.org/ Shoah Foundation\nhttp://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority\nhttp://www.holocaust-trc.org/ This Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
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Everyone in Germany and other countries saw it, but were afraid to question the officers of the German Army.  SS officers were usually at the transportation point, so most people were afraid.  If you asked where the people were going, they could just as easily throw you in the train.  So the average Germans thought the Jews were being transported to detention camps and not death camps.  The SS or German secret service were very intrusive and violent, so the general public left them along.
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Try the US Holocaust museum website, they might have some info for you.
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THE HOLOCAUST   \n\n  The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. \n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment. \n   Before beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities. \nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. \n  In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including more than two-thirds of the Jewish displaced persons in Europe. Others emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities.
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This is a might more serious than it looks.  \n\nDid you know that the last estimate of the death toll across Europe reached 1.3 millions souls tortured and roasted to death in the name of G-d.  Whole villages in places like Scotland were left womanless, children lost their mothers, parents their daughters.  Women and girls constituted 95% of the deaths. \n\nFor those who care to remember this is an emmotive issue.  The inquisition, sometimes known as the female holocaust, was a time when patriarchal church leaders quaked with terror at the sheer power of women, believing them to be instruments of the devil, a source of evil, bringers of impurity to men.    \n\nAs both a Jew and a woman I feel it equally important to remember them both. Lest we forget  xxxx\n\np.s.  no Im not black as well.
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Concentration camp?  Are there such things these days?  If not, your question goes back a ways.  Many people have been born in captivity, in the course of time.  Sometimes they survive, and sometimes they do not.  The Nazi concentration camps were especially brutal, however.  Many babies were taken away to be used in "medical experiments."  I seriously hope there is nothing like that still going on in this world!
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For Nazis the role of the woman was to stay at home and keep the household and get children. For example they had special medals (called mutterkreuz) for woman with many children.
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I personally worked with a woman who lost her entire family. They were separated and taken to the Belsen camp. Once the Germans could sqezze nothing more out of them, they got on the train for Auchswitz, the main gas murdering site and crematorium. Alot of poor, thin people were shot and thrown into pits full of other corpses, too, besides the gassing. My dear friend Isabella had the tattoo marking her "property of Belsen camp". No one else came out alive. And no, they weren't just taking the Jewish. But hitler was string on meth and he was a megalomaniac. The two don't mix.
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It's a historical fact that the holocaust took place. The jews were blamed for the German's down fall, depression or whatever and so Hitler convinced the people by getting rid of them it would solve everything! So, yes they were tortured,starved and even beaten to death along with gays,gypsys and disabled people.
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There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.
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The term concentration camp lost its original relatively innocent meaning after Nazi concentration camps were discovered, and has ever since been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced labour, and murder. \n\nBeginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time was under German occupation. The camps were a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust; at least 1.1 million people were killed there, of whom over 90% were Jews.\n\nAt Auschwitz the families were separated, those unable to work gassed, and the remainder singled out for conscription. The girls were shaved bald and tattooed with camp numbers. Their possessions, including clothing and shoes, were taken away and replaced by prison uniform and shoes. The dress was in one piece, made of grey material, with a red cross on the back and the yellow Jew-patch on the sleeve.\n\nThe crematorium contains a large hall, a gas chamber and a furnace. People are assembled in the hall, which holds 2,000. They have to undress and are given a piece of soap and a towel as if they were going to the baths. Then they are crowded into the gas chamber which is hermetically sealed. Several SS men in gas masks then pour into the gas chamber through three openings in the ceiling a preparation of the poison gas maga-cyclon. At the end of three minutes all the persons are dead. The dead bodies are then taken away in carts to the furnace to be burnt. \n\nConditions in all camps for foreign workers were extremely bad. They were greatly overcrowded. The diet was entirely inadequate. Only bad meat, such as horsemeat or meat which had been rejected by veterinarians as infected with tuberculosis germs, was passed out in these camps. Clothing, too, was altogether inadequate. Foreigners from the east worked and slept in the same clothing in which they arrived. Nearly all of them had to use their blankets as coats in cold and wet weather. Many had to to walk to work barefoot, even in winter. Tuberculosis was particularly prevalent. The TB rate was four times the normal rate. This was the result of inferior housing, poor food and an insufficient amount of it, and overwork.\n\nBooks:  Diary of Anne Frank, Night by Elie Weisel\nMovies:  Shindlers List, The Pianist
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Hi, I'm so sorry but this is one subject that cannot be simplified, I've tried long and hard to find sites that can be directed for young people, alas to no avail, so here is what we have to work with.\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\n\nThe Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.\n\nhttp://www.holocaust-history.org/\n\nThe Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\n\nOur site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust.  Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles.  Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm\n\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nGood luck.
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the Nazis:\n"November 28 1938: Police decree pertaining to the appearance of Jews in public issued: Restrictions in the freedom of movement and travel, etc. "