The Holocaust

Hallo
          Today I am blogging about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was just about the most depressing that ever happened in history. During the Holocaust, A LOT of Jewish people died, all because of a man and his army. That man was Adolf Hitler. That army was the Nazis. The Holocaust was a terrible, terrible time. Many Jewish people were killed, starved, put in Concentration Camps, and put in the ghetto. The Holocaust started with Hitler blaming the Jews for Germany's failure in World War 1. He thought that they were the reason Germany was severely punished. One girl who was caught in the middle of the Holocaust was Anne Frank. Anne Frank's family decided to hide in the apartment above Anne's father's former work. They were found on August 4, 1944. They shared their small apartment attic with a family of Dutch Jews, the Pfeffer family. The Frank and Pfeffer family were found by the Gestapo [German Secret State Police.] They were sent to a Concentration Camp, where Anne died of the sickness typhus. Her mother died of starvation, she believed her father was dead, and her sister also died of typhus. She was only 16. This morning, we read about some of the children who died in the Holocaust, and then wrote letters to them. What I mean by "wrote letters" is we wrote pretend letters to their ghosts. Most of the children were killed in the gas chambers at Concentration Camps. The Holocaust was probably one of the most depressing times in history. We as Americans need to discuss the Holocaust, so something like it doesn't happen again.
                                                                    So long, 
                                                                            Penelope the Depressed Fifth Grader