Imagine you are in a camp. Not just any field, but a field where you are forced to work all day. This is what happened during the Holocaust. In 1930 Hungary came under the influence of the Nazi Party. In 1940 Hungary joined the Axis powers. Hungary began to issue anti-Jewish laws and decrees. In 1941 there were 825,000 Jews in Hungary. Germany wanted Hungary to deport Hungarian Jews. Hungary decided not to do so for political reasons. They wanted to avoid direct involvement in the war. As the Allied forces gained control on the war front, the Axis powers began to lose. Hungary tried to negotiate peace with the allies. The thing Germany did to stop Hungary from doing this was they occupied Hungary in 1944. In May 1944, Hungarian Jews were put on trains and deported to concentration camps, most were sent to Auschwitz. The Jewish population in Hungary was reduced to 255,000. In the spring of 1942 Auschwitz became the largest extermination camp for Jews. More than 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives at Auschwitz. Most were Jews. Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944. Also in 1944, between May 14 and July 9, approximately 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Germans had many plans for improvement. They had an agreement with the railway officials in Budapest. These officials had provided 111 (Czech) trains. The Degesch company also helped improve Auschwitz by sending 462 pounds of Zyklon B gas on March 8 (in Czech). “In mid-May 1944, when mass transports of Hungarian Jews began to arrive at Auschwitz, young, healthy and strong Jews of both sexes were dispersed for a time as so-called deportees to various barracks in Birkenau, but a. ..... middle of paper ... or current conditions in the United States. I never had to go through what these Jews had to go through. The people who lived during the Holocaust should always be remembered, and I know that I will never forget the Holocaust as long as I live. Works Cited Braham, Randolph L. "Preparatory Work at Auschwitz." Berenbaum, Michael and Yisreal Gutman. Anatomy of the Auschwitz extermination camp. n.d. 462-463."1944." Czech, Danuta. Chronicle of Auschwitz 1939-1945. New York: H. Holt, 1989. Document. Grossman, Clara. Testimony of Clara Grossman Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. August 26, 1999. Video.Müller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: three years in the gas chambers. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999.Vago, Lidia Rosenfeld. “A Year in the Black Hole of Our Planet Earth: A Personal Narrative.” Offer, Dalia and Lenore J. Weitzman. Women of the Holocaust. 1999. 273-277.