Holocaust Survivors: The Negative Effects Of The Holocaust

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According to the text, the Holocaust had a negative effect on the people who lived through it. Jews were the first made to fear the Gestapo so greatly that they often felt they had to do as they abused or treated like animals. Eventually, 6 to 9 million people died as a result of the Holocaust. According to the three text Holocaust Survivors suffered negative effects due to the fact they had been abused, lost loves ones, and were treated as less than humans.

Many had to suffer from the pain of abuse that was afflicted onto them,. Note in the article “The Gestapo is Born” they did state they would do horrible things to interrogate people. It states “...drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub filled with ice-cold water; electric shocks by attaching wires to the hands, feet, and ears…” (Gestapo Paragraph 15) Those were just a few things they would do
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And this was way more worse than death. In the article “Jakob’s Story” it says about what happened to his and many other families as they walk into a concentration camp. Jakob writes “...took women directly to the gas chambers and afterward to the crematoria- my mother and sister were am0ong them!!!...taken to this place, never to return again” (Blankitny paragraph 4) They would separate by gender age or how weak the are, never to see the the light of day again. Going through something like this with every single family member until you were the last one must have been heartbreaking for them.

In the concentration camps, Jews were treated more like objects or animals more than really huma., Information from “Jakob’s Story” says otherwise, related to the topic of animals. In the article it says “...we were counted like animals” (Blankitny Paragraph 7) They were treated like something they weren’t just because it was a different race or people. No one. No matter who they don’t deserve to be treats like