The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a rough time for Jewish people. From 1941-1945, Jews were targeted because they didn't believe in or didn't look like what other people looked like or didn't believe in what they believed in. According to the leader of all this, Adolf Hitler, Jews weren't people to be seen with, talked about, or heard from. If you didn't have blond hair or blue eyes, you were treated like animals. To identify themselves as Jews, they would have to put The Star Of David on their businesses or houses. Eventually, the Gestapo, or Nazi police, would take you and your family out of your house, giving you no prior notice, and you would be loaded up into a truck and taken to a concentration camp. You might think it only gets better from here, but at this point, everything goes downhill. Once you arrive at the camp, you and your family could be split up amongst the thousands of other people locked inside this out door dungeon. Whether you were separated or not, your family was put to work, or if you weren't physically able to work, the Gestapo guards would beat you, or let you starve until you couldn't hold onto your life any longer. While many deaths were caused by starvation or physical abuse, many people died from the spread of disease. These camps didn't exactly look like 5 star hotels; they were dirty, and this made it easy for bacteria and mold to grow, and people who got infected's germs spread like wildfire. Over 67% of the people at these concentration camps died from diseases such as Typhus. This was what Anne and Margot suffered from. Just like these sisters, 11,000,000 other innocent Jews were killed during the time of the Holocaust.