HISTORICAL CONTENT by Vanessa Mesa/ Renato Escobar
In January, 30th 1933 when a man called Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany. After that day world history changed but mainly effected Europe in a evil and bad way. That day will forever in history be called, the day The Holocaust started.
June 14, 1940
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day. That day, the first prisoners arrived to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
September 3, 1941
On this date, Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz. Himmler is concerned about the prisoner capacity of the camp. On this visit, he orders both the expansion of Auschwitz I camp facilities to hold 30,000 prisoners and the building of a camp near Birkenau for an expected influx of 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Himmler also orders that the camp supply 10,000 prisoners. And started gas testing the prisoners.
March 20, 1942
In this date the first Mass Gassing starts. After this date, they assigned prisoners to clean the gas rooms (from bodies). But then they would kill them so, they would not warn the others.
October 7, 1944
After the last Jews were sent to Treblinka were gassed in May 1943, about 1,000 Jewish prisoners remained in the camp. Aware that they were soon to be killed, the prisoners decided to revolt. On August 2, armed with shovels, picks, and a few weapons stolen from the arms warehouse, they set fire to part of the camp and broke through its barbed-wire fence. About 300 prisoners managed to escape, and about a third of them survived German efforts to recapture them.Two inmates of Sobibor ( a different concentration camp) , Aleksander Pechersky and Leon Feldhendler, planned a similar revolt in 1943. On October 14, prisoners killed eleven camp guards and set the camp on fire. About 300 prisoners escaped, but many were killed during the manhunt that followed. Fifty were alive at the war's end.
On this day in 1940, Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris. By the time German tanks rolled into Paris, 2 million Parisians had already fled, with good reason. In short order, the German Gestapo went to work: arrests, interrogations, and spying were the order of the day. That day, the first prisoners arrived to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
September 3, 1941
On this date, Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz. Himmler is concerned about the prisoner capacity of the camp. On this visit, he orders both the expansion of Auschwitz I camp facilities to hold 30,000 prisoners and the building of a camp near Birkenau for an expected influx of 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Himmler also orders that the camp supply 10,000 prisoners. And started gas testing the prisoners.
March 20, 1942
In this date the first Mass Gassing starts. After this date, they assigned prisoners to clean the gas rooms (from bodies). But then they would kill them so, they would not warn the others.
October 7, 1944
After the last Jews were sent to Treblinka were gassed in May 1943, about 1,000 Jewish prisoners remained in the camp. Aware that they were soon to be killed, the prisoners decided to revolt. On August 2, armed with shovels, picks, and a few weapons stolen from the arms warehouse, they set fire to part of the camp and broke through its barbed-wire fence. About 300 prisoners managed to escape, and about a third of them survived German efforts to recapture them.Two inmates of Sobibor ( a different concentration camp) , Aleksander Pechersky and Leon Feldhendler, planned a similar revolt in 1943. On October 14, prisoners killed eleven camp guards and set the camp on fire. About 300 prisoners escaped, but many were killed during the manhunt that followed. Fifty were alive at the war's end.