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During the Holocaust, countless atrocious acts were committed against the Jews and other groups thought to be inferior by the Nazis, though there are a select few that stand out as the most terrible. The actions that stood out the most to me as immoral were; the murder of 600000 people at the Belzec camp in a 17 month period, the killing of 750000 people at Treblinka in a 16 month period, and the deportation of 437402 Hungarian Jews to …

…events, is the deportation of 437402 Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz camp. They were collected from various ghettos and transported to Auschwitz to face certain death. Though the conditions in a ghetto were horrific, most prisoners would rather live there than die somewhere else. The Jews that were living in the ghettos had a future, though a bleak one, and would have lived through the Holocaust if they were not deported; therefore I find it immoral.