Holocaust

By: 8th grade ELA Student

Cedartown Middle School

Holocaust- concentration Camps

Just think if you were one of the many people who had to live in the concentration camps. You would be terrified! They were all killed. They were killed mainly by one person, Adolf Hitler, and his German Nazi Soldiers.

Holocaust- Concentration Camps

The only people that were forced to go to the concentration camps were Jews, Gypsies and others too. Adolf Hitler disliked them because of their looks and their religion. These camps were built to fit many people. There were many of these camps all around the world. The camps were very big so the rooms were

able to hold a lot of people.

Holocaust- Concentration Camps

The camps were originally made for them to be slaves, but in 1941 they started killing them. They killed them in many ways, and they were all terrible and tragic.

Ways they were killed!

Ways they were killed

They were killed by poisonous gas chambers.

Used as medical experiments such as testing diseases and cures for them.

Holocaust- Concentration Camps

The prisoners were held against their will and tested on.

They used the prisoners to test vaccines for deadly diseases.

Holocaust- Concentration Camps

Today you will not find many people who survived the holocaust. This is mainly because they were all killed. You may find some people who went into hiding.

Pictures of the Concentration Camp

Many of the people who died during the holocaust.

Some of the prisoners that were confined.

Pictures of the Concentration Camp

The gas chamber where they killed them.

One of the survivors of the Holocaust

My Sources

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005475

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701-s&va=holocaust+concentration+camps