The Jews were told in
1941, that they were all going to be moved and resettled at a certain place
to be known as the ghettos. The Nazis gathered them and forced them to
hand over all their possessions. This task was that of the ìEinsatzgruppenî
or Special Action Group. A leader of one of the Actions Groups during the
war said, ìWe would enter a village or a city and order the prominent
Jewish citizens to call together all Jews for the purpose of resettlement.
They were requested to hand over their possessions shortly before the execution
and to surrender their outer clothing. The men, women, and children were
led to a more deeply excavated antitank ditch. Then they were shot, kneeling
or standing, and the corpses thrown into the ditch.All of the Jews were
either killed or sent to concentration camps to work. Not all of the Jews
were killed; only the ones that were old, or they thought were not fit
to work in in the concentration camps. All the survivors were sent to the
secluded ghettos.
The Germans moved
to eliminate the ghettos during 1942 through 1944. The Jews were
murdered in concentration camps, or died of poor living conditions. The
fortunate ones were sent to work camps where they would die eventually
from exhaustion, starvation, or eventual execution. Millions
of Jews were taken to death camps and died in gas chambers,
The Jews were taken
out of their homes and exterminated because of their religious backgrounds.
The millions of innocent people were killed out of prejudice and hatred.
Even though there is a lot a prejudice and racial ideas today, it should
not only be remembered for the victims, but for the prevention that it
won’t happen again.
