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Nazi Plans for the Jews
by Rabbi Eliahu Ellis & Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky
With Polish Jewry under their control, the Germans began a series of cruel and sadistic measures against them.

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Cutting His Beard

Slovak Sympathizers Cutting Jew's Beard
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

RealAudio account by Mrs. M. (0:51 min.)

One of the favorite "forms of amusement" for Nazi soldiers was to go up to the old Jewish men and cut off their sidelocks. A witness now living in Jerusalem said, "They cut his sidelocks and they stuck him on the ground and rode him like a donkey.

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Nazi Cutting Beard

Nazi Cutting Jew's Beard For Amusement
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And afterwards, they put a bullet in his head."

 

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The sheer quantity of Polish Jews was a problem for the Nazis. Previously, the Jews could leave, or the Germans threw them out of the country.

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Marching To Camps

German Jews Being Marched To A Concentration Camp
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

 

 

Indeed, Adolf Eichmann became famous by throwing the Jews out of Austria. With so many Jews in Poland, deportation became no longer practical. Now there were three million more under German control.

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Rounding Up Jews

Round-Up Of Jews In Baden-Baden
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Listen to a RealAudio account by Mr. S. (1:40 min.)

At this point, the Nazi approach started to shift: Rather than letting the Jews go, they began concentrating them into the infamous "ghettos." In Poland, they adopted a 4-point plan:

 

Roundup For Slave Labor

Jews Being Forced Into Slave Labor
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

  1. Marking the Jews with yellow badges.
  2. Forcing them into slave labor.
  3. Looting their property.
  4. Read an eyewitness account.

  5. Sealing them into the ghettos.


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(2) Hannah 1/7/2008 6:51:00 PM
Will we ever learn?
I am a Jewish teenager and I came upon this site while looking for info for my hebrew school homework. What happened to the Jewish people during the Holocaust is crazy and unbelievable- I find it hard to believe that humans would just hate people so willingly. The worst part is that no one did anything about it. To LIV (about the previous comment),if enough people had done something or said something, 6,000,000+ Jews probably wouldn't have died. No one tried to stop the Nazis until it was too late. It was pure evil, but its still happening today. In Darfur, millions of innocent people are being killed. Its like the Holocaust all over again, except this time we know what we did wrong. But, barely anybody knows or cares about what's happening. We should try to do something. It's our duty as a person to help others.

Will we ever learn?


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