people can view them. Here are a few examples of powerful mementos to be displayed in a museum. Many people keep a box full of mementos in their attic or basement like baby pictures‚ ornaments‚ blankets‚ cards‚ etc. Shifra Katz‚ a victim of the Holocaust‚ has a powerful story about a blanket that holds a lot of history. Shifra’s daughter Cipora was wrapped in this blanket and handed to her father in November 1942. At the time
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Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe (“Jewish”). The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events to ever occur in human history‚ and is most commonly known for when the mass murder of over six-million Jewish people took place. In 1939‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced to leave their homes and live in small‚ fenced-off areas known as ghettos. With miserable living conditions‚ and constant Nazi terror‚ resistance was not easy‚ but certainly not impossible. During the Holocaust‚ Jewish people engaged in various
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When I look at this picture I don’t just see thousands of Jewish men and women being sent to the crematorium to be burned to death. I see the cloudy gloomy weather. It is such a depressing scene‚ imagine how they felt being marched to their death. You can help but wonder if some of the Nazis guarding them felt any sort of guilt as they were having all of these prisoners murdered right before their eyes or had their conscience grown silent from doing it so much. How their family’s felt when they what
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During World War II‚ a number of German physicians conducted painful and often deadly experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their consent. Doctors are looked at as the saviors of mankind‚ the healers‚ and caretakers of our utter existence. Even dating back to ancient civilizations‚ as they revered to doctors as having “special power” to protect life. The practice of medicine by the Nazi doctors is both outrageous and shocking‚ violating the trust placed upon them by humanity
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During World War II‚ many Nazi’s did not believe in the perfect‚ Aryan race like Hitler but they did hate Jews. Now why did they hate Jews? Jews did not suffer nearly as much as others during the depression in Europe due to their work ethic and established businesses. When non-Jewish German’s saw the prosperity of the Jews in comparison with their
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.Many of us have experienced the frightening position of being a bystander‚ whether we were witnessing a fight in school‚ or a crime out on the streets. However‚ Most of us are unaware of how to respond to what we have seen. Is it our duty to intervene? Or keep to ourselves? Although it may seem the situation is none of your business‚ when not intervening you are actually becoming part of the problem and are just as guilty as the bully or criminal. However direct intervention isn’t always the solution
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homosexuals. This investigation will aim to determine the Nazis role in the rage against homosexuals during the holocaust‚ and how the treatment of homosexuals evolved‚ culminating in the eventual murders of thousands. Within the summary of evidence‚ I plan to study the existence of homosexuality prior to the holocaust‚ Nazis ideologies and policies regarding homosexuals and the treatment of homosexuals during the Nazis rule. Throughout this investigation a bibliography of secondary resources will be compiled
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During WWII‚ many people‚ specifically Jewish individuals‚ suffered under Germany’s oppression; many of those people decided to either actively or passively resist. Those who chose to actively resist would use violence to avoid ignominy from dying in a gas chamber. On the other hand‚ those who passively resisted would attempt to maintain their dignity by surviving the many hardships they were presented with. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Resistance During the Holocaust”‚ it explains how individuals
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things are required. The timber must be dry and combustible‚ there needs to be a spark that ignites it‚ and external conditions have to be favorable—not too damp‚ perhaps some wind” (Bergen 1). What conditions could have led to such atrocities? The Holocaust was an event of global proportions; it involved people from all areas of life and was the result of complex social‚ political‚ and economic conditions that stemmed from the legacies of antisemitism throughout Europe‚ European imperialism‚ and World
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reality for Jews who lived during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi’s killed six million Jews during the nineteen thirties and forties. Most Jews would hide and some of their non-Jewish friends would help provide them with the supplies they needed. This was true for Anne Frank‚ Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan‚ Peter‚ Mr. and Mrs. Frank‚ Dussel‚ and Margot who are all hiding together and being provided for by Miep and Mr. Kraler. During the Holocaust‚ you needed to have hope
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