trengthened themselves and when the American troops arrived on April 11, 1945, the underground was in control and handed the camp over to the Americans.Of the 238,380 (or 238,980) prisoners held in the camp since it opened, 56,549 (or 56,545) had died or been murdered. ConclusionThe Nazis, under Hitler, organized the destruction of the Jews. Why they did it is unknown. Perhaps it was because of a history of tension between Christians and Jews, or perhaps, because Hitler needed a scapegoat for Germany's problems.People throughout history have been murdered; but never as many people as during the Holocaust, in such a short period of time and under such well organized circumstances. One third of all the Jews in the world were eliminated. "The estimated total is somewhere around six million. This number included Jews from all over Europe. There are estimates that over three million non-Jews were murdered." Hitler's method of killing the Jews and other undesirable people was first by torture and then by methodical murder. In the early days of his administration, he took away their rights as citizens and then as people. They were treated like slaves and lived like animals. After 1942, his goal was to exterminate all Jewish and "unpure" people. Many Jews were killed before that date, but they were a small number compared to the mass murdering of the Holocaust afterwards."We Must Never Forget" are words which each Jew must remember. It is only through an organized program of education that we can be sure that people will not forget, and so we might, in this way, prevent another holocaust from occurring. With ongoing programs about the Holocaust and the establishment of Holocaust departments in schools and Holocaust museums we are also letting the entire world know and remember that millions of our loved ones were lost in the horrible tragic killing that we call the holocaust.BibliographyBauer, Yehuda. A History of the Holocaust. New York: Frank...
