Aftermath+(1945-2000)

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=The start of the Aftermath of the Holocaust-1945-2000=

//The Aftermath of the Holocaust//

The war and holocaust left many people lost and displaced. Family members were gone leaving many people homeless and alone in the big world. Many were afraid to go back to their homes for fear of the holocaust happening again. And many were left with scars physically and emotionally that will last for a life time. The amount of Jewish people who survived is unknown to this day.

//What had became of the Aftermath of the Holocaust, was in 1945. Anglo-American and Soviet troops found disturbing sights at concentration camps. They discovered corpses on top of one another, bones and human ashes. They decided they would testify against the Nazi's murder. They later had discovered thousands of survivors including jews and non jews that had been suffering from starvation and diseases. When they had finally been able to let the jews go back to their current home land they were still scared for their lives and what had remained of the Nazi's raft against their race. There were some riots started by pogroms (violent anti jewish riots). For jews 1946 was still a disaster for them and their families, in Poland a big riot had hit them killing over 42 jews, and leaving many of them beaten brutally. There were tens of thousands homeless Holocaust survivors.//



//In the end though many organizations came to help the survivors of this tragedy (Sh'erit ha-Pletah (Hebrew for "surviving remnant", The Jewish Brigade Group (a Palestinian Jewish unit of the British army). When a State was named Israel in May of 1948, survivors of this event came streaming in to their communities. In total at least 170,000 Jewish people and refugees had immigrated there by 1953.In December 1945, President Harry Truman announced that the quota restrictions to be loosened on immigration to the U.S. of the people displaced by the Nazi regime. 41,000 people than immigrated to the States while 28,000 of them had been Jewish people. Than between January 1, 1949 and December 31, 1952 approximately 400,000 had entered the States of those 400,000 people 68,000 of them were Jews. Other Jewish refugees had immigrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South Africa. The sad part of this is the death toll of the Holocaust which had to be 6 million Jewish people dead. Many survived. //

Throughout 1945, Russian and U.S troops entered concentration camps not knowing what they would see. They were shocked at the horror and adversity that the Jews had gone through. They discovered sick and starving Jews, along with many dead ashes of Jews that were burnt. Although the war was over, the hatred of Jews was still present in Europe long after the war ended. The result of this became the Jews fearing returning to their homes. The total death toll of Jews throughout World War 2 was approximately 6,000,000. In December 1945, U.S president Harry Truman issued a directive that loosened quota restrictions on immigrating to U.S. As A result 41,000 displayed people immigrated to the U.S of which 28,000 were Jews. Then later in 1948, as a part of the Displaced Persons act, 400,000 visas were granted for displaced persons. On may 4Th, 1961, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was put in trial for his actions. This event rose international interest. Jewish testimonies generated interest in Jewish Resistance. He was charged on numerous accounts of crimes against Jews, crimes against humanity, organizing storm troopers, the S.S, the Gestapo etc. He was later sentenced to death and was hung on June 1, 1962.

Displaced Persons camps were started, also known as DP camps, in 1945. People went there to find food, shelter, and hopefully reunite with a loved one. Earl G. Harrison said, and i quote, "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we don't exterminate them." So arrangements were made for improvements in the DP camps. Eighty percent of the people living in the camps were Christians and only twenty percent were Jewish. The Jews were then viewed as a different ethnic group with their own needs and were moved to separate camps. Agricultural and vocational educations was provided as well as psychological, financial, and legal support. A newspaper was created to keep communication between the DP camps and the rest of the world running smoothly. Meanwhile others more focused on the perpetrators than the survivors. Some were executed, but others got off easier than others being locked up and doing various jobs for the government.
 * 1945, Displaced Persons Camps**

The Jews proclaimed the state of Israel as their own on May 14, 1948. Then the following day the Arab nations attacked Israel. In the same month of May the US passed the Displaced Persons Act' of 1948. This meant that the US was willing to help Jewish immigrants come to America and put up DP camps. However there was only a limited amount of people that could come. But two years later in June of 1950 a new law came saying that as many Jewish people wanted to come to the US would be allowed to.
 * 1948, The Jewish claim Israel and the US pass Displaced Persons Act**

= Aftermath of World War 2 =
 * //You might think that Holocaust had been a disaster and saddening but what was even more sadder was during this event another event was going on World War 2. It had killed many people, damaged many properties, and scarred the lives of millions of people. The death toll for this event was in total//   **//48,231,700 were killed. Soviet Union had lost the most which was 20,000,000 people, and Brazil lost the least of 1,000 of their military members. And than hundreds of cities were destroyed.// //On October 24, 1945, the allies formed a United Nations together.//

As the final, (yet most destructive bomb of World War 2) bomb hit Japan, the Japanese Empire and the final Axis forces were forced to surrender thus ending the most destructive war in mankind's history. The Axis surrendered on September 2, 1945. The death toll has never been this high and the damage never so severe as over 50,000,000 soldier and civilians had died in this 6 year war. Only 4,000,000 Germans died, soldiers and civilians included. The country having the most losses was Russia with a huge total of 20,000,000 people, almost half of the total death toll. Hundreds of cities, towns, and villages completely destroyed by the combat and air attacks.

The US became aware of gold or other merchandise stolen or hidden by Germany during World War 2. An Eizenstat report says that during 1939 and 1945 that German Nazis transfered $400 million, which is equivalent to 3.9 billion today, of stolen gold to the Swiss National Bank. Also gold, silver, cavity fillings, and other valuables were taken from the victims at the consentration camps. There are still many unsolved issues dealing with the unlawful taking of property inclouding land, homes, art work, jewels and gold. There is an uprising conflict over these issues and how they should be resolved and who will claim the stolen items.
 * 1997, US attempts to recover gold stolen by the Germany**

