Psychological Effects of the Holocaust In February of 1933, the Nazi Party ruthlessly started to persecute Jews simply because they were Jews. Under the Nazi Party, Jews were "worthless", and considered "animals". As time went on in the Holocaust, the physiological impact of the Nazi hatred demoralized the Jews. Jews were shot as target practice, starved (mostly to death), and forced to kill their own kind to save themselves; it was just about one's own survival- no one else mattered. Family and love soon became words that people no longer understood. In anyone’s life, it is important to have a strong family and the bond of love, but in the Holocaust, Jews were stripped away from the aspect of love and family. Many the Holocaust survivors can still recall horrendous memory's of their experience in the concentration camps. When people were in the concentration camps, the trauma was much worse; people were not mentally and emotionally strong to enough to endure the pain that it caused. In the Holocaust the Nazi Party caused psychological pain of the Jewish people to ensure their complete dominance. The psychological impact was so great that the Jewish people in the time and thereafter were scarred for life. At the time of the Holocaust, the Nazi Party used mental and physical psychology to undermine the Jewish people. When Jews were transferred into concentration camps like Auschwitz, other Jews already there were placed in charge of them. When they arrived, SS officers used the process of selection as a way to segregate the “healthy prisoners” from the “non-healthy prisoners”. After the “non-healthy prisoners” were brought to the crematorium, and then gassed or burned by Jews themselves, SS officers made Jewish people collect the remains of their fallen friends, family members, and people form their own town. This had an immense impact on the people