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the holocaust

o have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but aloud to immigrate. When the war was officially declared, immigration ended and 'the final solution to the Jewish problem' came. When Germany took over Poland, the polish and German Jews were forced into over crowed gettos and employed as slave labor. The Jewish property was seized. Disease and starvation filled the gettos. Finally, the Jews were taken to concentration camps in Poland and Germany where they were murdered and killed in poisonous gas chambers in Auschwitz and many other camps despite the harsh treatment of the Jews, not many German people opposed this. When the news reached the allies, they all refused to make any rescue plans for the Jews. American Jews were warned against seeking any action for the benefit of the European Jews although Zionists managed to save small groups of Jews and brought them to Palestine. The vacation condemned racism in general but did hardly anything to stop the German actions. The victories of the Germans in the early years of the war brought most of the majority of the European under the control of the nazis. The Baltic's, Ukraine's and white Russians gladly joined the nazis. France and Italy sent 100,000 Jews to Germany, and Holland and Belgium were anti-nazis and refused to co-operate with Germany. Denmark protected it's Jews from Germany, and Norway sent it's Jews to Switzerland for protection.Unaware that they will be gassed, the Jews kept quiet until the last moment. When there fate was clear, the first Jewish uprising came in April 1943 in Warsaw ghetto, when more than 60,000armed Jews decided to resist. The battle took 28 days before the heavily armed German forces stopped the uprising. Individual Jews also resisted by joining partisan groups. Jewish resistance was mainly spiritual.The war in Europe ended on may 8th, 1945. A great deal of the Jewish culture and learning perished. ...

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