Medical experiments were performed on Jews while detained in the camps. Dr. Mengele is one of the most well-known leaders of these experiments. He mainly worked with twins. Dr. Mengele carried out torturous experiments, with no point to them but to feed his interest of the unknown genetic factors among twins. For example an inmate named Vera Alexander reported that twins were sewn together at the veins to make them siamese through their backs and wrists. Rigorous data was taken from these experiments, and pictures and files can still be found today.

Approximately 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Hitler blamed the Jewish people as the source of Germany's problems. Strict laws were imposed on the Jews, such as wearing a yellow star of David to indicate that one was Jewish. These laws grew harsher and harsher, and the treatment of the Jewish people worsened. Kristallnacht, "the Night of Broken Glass" was when stores owned by Jews were destroyed and synagogues were burned. Soon, the Jews were sent to ghettos and then transported to death camps, if they were still alive. 2 out of 3 Jewish people during the Holocaust were killed.

Malnourished bodies were piled together and mass graves were dug where the bodies where disposed of.

Since I was a child my grandfather has made sure to teach me of the horrors of the Holocaust. That is because he is a survivor of it. Long story short, he was sent from his home in Transylvania to Auschwitz, one of the most famous death camps ran by the Nazis, along with his two younger brothers and parents. His brothers were immediately separated and were gassed and killed. He did not learn until after the war that his mother died while working at the camp. My grandfather stuck with his father, and on the first night of Hanukkah, he died in my grandfathers arms. The stories that I have been told by my grandfather make it impossible to believe that one is even capable to create such horrific ideas in the mind; stories about how he was beat, and was forced to clean up the remains of some of the millions of people who were murdered.