How the Holocaust Affected Its Jewish Victims

e publicity of these "holocaust deniers". Those who claim it did not and manage to get away with it are very good at manipulating and deceiving the general public. They create propaganda that almost had me fooled several times, claiming that "We are not "holocaust deniers". We proudly proclaim that to date there is no evidence that millions of people were killed in homicidal gas chambers. That is good news all round. Why would anyone find this offensive? We are celebrating the living who were thought dead. How can this be an offense - unless it offends those who have their snout in the trough...." 1. It is too important to me, this subject of killing the memory of those that were killed. It is too important to family members of mine who were killed because they were simply Jews in Poland, shot dead in their own town, forced to dig their own graves in the rudimentary years of the Holocaust.
             This is what happened. This is the truth, and no book, no public speaker, no institution will convince me otherwise.
             Hitler Comes into Power- The Greatest Factor of the Jewish Extermination
             The isolated phenomena2 known as the Holocaust actually began in 1933, when the Nazis came into power in Germany. Most people, however, think of it as a period of time between 1941 and 1945. During this time, over 11 million people perished. Six million Jews, which was ninety percent of the Jewish- German population and two-thirds of the total European Jewish population at the time, along with five million other individuals died in death or labor camps such as Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Aushwitz, Belzec and Majdanek. The other five million people were Gypsies, Slavs, Poles, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics and handicaps, just to name a few. As you can see, it was not, as some people think, only Jews who were pointlessly murdered. Their stories live on in the world today, such as that of Jeannine Burk- "I really lost a great part of my childho...

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