Experiments Performed During the Holocaust, many Jews were used as experiments in labs. Most of the experiments were used to try and find answers to problems the German troops had faced. Some of these experiments included putting Jews in a freezer chamber to try and find a cure for hypothermia, or using them to test their efforts of making seawater potable. They also used the Jews to test new pharmaceuticals and treatment methods. These pharmaceuticals were an attempt to prevent contagious diseases like malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and hepatitis. They also did experiments on different races, to prove that the Jews were an inferior race. They also believed different races could defend against different diseases. There were also many attempts to find a more efficient way to kill the Jews. These were the experiments that were especially gruesome.
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Jewish Ghettos Ghettos were established by the Germans during World War II, beginning in 1939. The Ghettos were used to separate the Jews from the rest of the people in Germany, and in Europe as they expanded. Conditions in the camp were not good. In some cases, like the Warsaw ghetto, there were over 400,000 Jews in a 1.3 square miles area. There were also many other large ghettos, including Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk. Jews were forced to wear badges or armbands to show that they were Jewish. They were required to do labor for the Nazis. There were councils and Jewish police in the ghettos to try and keep things under control.
These ghettos were intended to be a temporary living area for the Jews. Sometimes they were only used for a couple days, and sometimes for years. The ghettos allowed the Nazis to quickly attempt to remove the Jewish population once Hitler’s Final Solution began. When the killing centers and concentration camps were ready by 1941, the Final Solution began. The Jews in the Ghettos were either moved to the killing centers, or they shot the Jews in the ghetto and buried them in a mass grave. The last ghetto in Poland was destroyed in August 1944. However, there were ghettos built in Hungary during 1944. The Jews in these ghettos were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp to be killed. There were many attempts of resistance inside the ghettos. |
Works Cited
"Nazi Medical Experiments." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 29 Jan. 2016. Web. 11 May 2016.
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"Ghettos." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 29 Jan. 2016. Web. 11 May 2016. <https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059>.
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"Ghettos." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 29 Jan. 2016. Web. 11 May 2016. <https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005059>.
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