1. Jan and Antonina Zabinksi were Christian zookeepers of a zoo located in Warsaw. Their villa would always be filled with animals‚ which Jan and Antonina loved. However this changed in 1939. In 1939‚ Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw was bombed numerous times. As a result of this‚ parts if the zoo were destroyed and many animals were killed or shipped away. Antonina was in disbelief and was even outraged by the Nazi treatment of Jews. There were 400‚000 Jews locked away in the Warsaw Ghetto‚ and
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A holocaust survivor and an outstanding writer a Nobel peace prize winner all I’m one! He was a Romanian American Jewish writer. He was an holocaust survivor. He had three sisters and a mom and a dad both his parents and little sister died in the holocaust leaving him and his two older sisters the only survivors from his family. Elie Wiesel encouraged hope in the face of fear through his works ¨Never Will I Forget¨‚ ¨Nobel Peace Prize Speech¨‚ and one of his untitled poems. One of Wiesel’s
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The Holocaust was the method and routine of subjugate and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi Government and its collaborators. It took place in Germany from 1933-1945. There was a total number of 6 million Jewish people who were killed and other groups such as Gypsies‚ Poles‚ Slaves‚ and Blacks. Some others that were killed were homosexuals‚ disabled‚ elderly‚ communists‚ and jehovah’s witnesses. As a total there were 10 million people killed. HItler and the Nazis had the power in the
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Nazis are known for being hateful and murders of the Jewish people. They were evil and mistreating to the Jews. They even made “Nuremberg Laws” against the jews. “These laws‚ on which the rest of Nazi racial policy hung‚ were written hastily. In September 1935‚ Adolf Hitlerdecided that the time was ripe for more restrictions on Germany’s Jews‚ especially since many Party militants had expressed their disappointment with the Arierparagraph.” (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurlaws
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Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian Elie Wiesel was a 15 year old boy. He lived in Sighet‚ Transylvania. Elie was just a regular boy like you and me‚ but he survived many adversities throughout his young life. Wiesel had to overcome death‚ the harsh life in the camp‚ and the humiliation that existed for all Jews. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian. Elie Wiesel had to overcome the burning flesh smell of his very own people. “Above us is a smell
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During this week‚ we watched Schindler’s List in class and read the book Night by Elie Wiesel at the same time. While watching Schindler’s List I noticed it was focused on the Nazi officials point of view‚ while the book Night was all in the eyes of a Jew. It was interesting to see the similarities and differences from the book and movie. Although‚ it wasn’t the same exact story with the same people we see the same aspects in both the movie and book. Starting off the similarities‚ the description
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Throughout our lives‚ we will all experience occurrences of political and cultural changes. How we cope with these alterations can set our paths for the near or far future‚ though it may not be clear at the time. In the autobiography Assignment: Rescue‚ a man by the name of Varian Fry voluntarily goes to Europe to try to help the men and women on the Gestapo’s blacklist escape before they are sent to concentration camps or killed. In the book Wild Swans‚ Jung Chang writes about three generations
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When the topic of the Holocaust pops up‚ what do you think about? Now ask yourself‚ should 8th graders learn about this? If you don’t know‚ you’ll be convinced that they should learn about the Holocaust by the end of this essay. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of the jews‚ committed by Adolf Hitler that lasted about 6 years. Although it’s a gruesome topic‚ students learn about different cultures‚ knowing that other people have had it worse then them‚ and being kind to others. Either way‚ it’s only
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Gross-Rosen Gross-Rosen was once a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an act of Genocide. In this case‚ genocide is a mass of killing a group of people. Gross-Rosen was one of many camps affected by Genocide‚ people in the camps were dying daily because of this. One of the more well-known victims of the Holocaust is Anne Frank. Gross-Rosen was a concentration camp that was established in Rogoznica‚ now known as Poland. In 1940‚ Gross-Rosen was first established as
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Beating‚ hunger‚ disease-all concepts of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Death was around the corner for many innocent prisoners. For some‚ death was preferred. Nazis put many Jewish people‚ and others into camps where there was no escape. People dying by the hundreds and helplessness overpowered these prisoners. There were two camps inside the Belsen camp-Camp 1 and Camp 2. The conditions were terrible‚ but eventually‚ there came an end to this horror. In Camp 1‚ also known as the Horror
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