While the Germans and the rest of the world focused on World War I, many innocent people experienced a different kind of nature. They were publicly humiliated, shaved and branded, and locked up in torturous concentration camps. Persecution and Emigration, The Origins of the Holocaust, Fighting Back and Anne Frank are all important roles in this period. No one will ever know the exact feeling of trauma people were facing and how many people were actually killed. During the Holocaust period, Jews were not the only victims of murder. Homosexuals, communists, mentally disabled, gypsies and Slavs, Russians and Poles. The killings began between 1941 and 1945. Jews feared leaving, being separated from their families, and ending up in concentration camps. (Persecution and emigration 5). They had no idea what to expect to happen to them. There were 22 major concentration camps and 6 extermination camps. Gas chambers were the most common way of mass extermination of Jews. Another way to kill them was to gas the trucks because they were suffocated by the exhaust fumes. Another method was mass shooting. People who could not work were directly sent to the gas chambers or shot. Eventually those who were able to work were also sent, but during the time they were alive they helped transport the bodies to the crematoriums or search for valuables. In the extermination camps men were the first to be gassed. Women were taken to have their hair cut before they were killed. (“The Killing Machine”). The estimated number of Holocaust survivors is 350,000. A commonly known survivor is Otto Frank, he was sent to concentration camps along with his family but survived... middle of paper... he was tormented and killed because of race and what they believe in everyone is unique in their own way . Works Cited Downing, David. Fight. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library, 2006. Downing, David. Origins of the Holocaust. New York: Gareth Stevens, 2006. Downing, David. Persecution and emigration. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library, 2006. “Holocaust Encyclopedia.” Introduction to the Holocaust. 2013. April 4. 2014.www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?Moduleld=10005143Rosteck, Mary Kay, Linda Schmittroth. “Anne Frank.” People of the Holocaust. 1998 ed. Rosteck, Mary Kay, Linda Schmittroth. People of the Holocaust. Detroit: An Imprint of Gale, 1998. “The Killing Machine.” Holocaust An appeal to conscience. 2009. April 4. 2014http://www.projectaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html