1939‚ and ended six long years later on September second‚ 1945‚ with over sixty million casualties. Eleven million of these casualties were caused by the concentration camps of the Holocaust‚ or the systematic killing of six and a half million Jews and five million others by the Nazi’s. The children of the Holocaust were the worst off. They weren’t given much chance at survival. All children under the age of twelve were sent straight into the gas chambers and those that were older and healthy were
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Karina Perez Mrs. Sommers English II Honors 11/8/12 Elies Experience during the Holocaust During the Holocaust Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual‚ sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man. Before the Holocaust started in the middle of 1900’s. Elie Wiesel was an outgoing kid; he was a spiritual kid as well as sensitive little boy and had faith in god. He lived with his mom‚ dad‚ and little sister. As the days and month went past by. Stuff began to change in Germany
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The Consequences of Dehumanization The actions committed during the Holocaust are‚ to many‚ unthinkable. Hitler and his followers have become merely fixtures of history‚ and the very idea that something like the Holocaust could happen again is often laughable. However‚ the Holocaust did not begin with widespread destruction‚ rather‚ it was a slow ascent into the horrors that we know of. This ascent began with the idea that the Jewish people were at fault for Germany’s economic collapse‚ yet finished
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Standing Up During the Holocaust The term “Holocaust” was used in the past as a word to describe mass destruction caused by fire or nuclear war. Since World War II ended in 1945‚ this term has taken on a new and terrifying meaning: the stretch of time over several years in which the deaths of some six million Jews took place under the jurisdiction of the Nazi regime leader‚ Adolf Hitler. Although he was a very unsparing and austere leader‚ there were many who were courageous enough to take a stand
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families. The Holocaust violated human rights by almost every way because they took almost everything and captured them. According to article 5 it states that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel ‚ inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment just because they Jews were a different religion and you shouldn’t miss treat people at all because they are humans and they should be treated with respect like others if they weren’t a Jew or any other religion. .
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The time during the Holocaust brought the Frank family much difficulties. They had to be fearful about everything.They were always scared of being caught by the Gestapo. They had to be careful about what they were doing and how loud they were talking. They were always scared of what would happen if someone knew where they were living. While they were living in the Annex they couldn’t do much as I had mentioned. They didn’t have normal dinners or normal clothes like other normal families had. In the
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The Nightmares Of Auschwitz In April of 1940‚ the largest and most horrific concentration camp use during the Holocaust was Auschwitz. Almost all Jews taken hostage were transferred to this camp during the war. Auschwitz had the worst living conditions and some of the most brutal methods of execution. In the camp they used gas chambers to kill large amounts of Jews in addition to using the firing squads to kill of smaller amounts of Jews. The doctors at the camps took children away and performed
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largest causes of genocides. In one case of discrimination is the Jews were getting blamed for Germany and Hitler losing WWI. The jews were placed in concentration camps and were treated like slaves and were sold to different companies. The holocaust was one of the most horrific event in history due to the fact that people were tortured and killed. It was not against the law because of the Nuremberg Laws throughout this event discrimination and propaganda was also also going on. In one case of
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others with them. The holocaust was a horrible event that occurred from 1933 until 1945. The holocaust was caused because Adolf Hitler became the Germans leader and him and his Nazi party wanted a greater empire led by a pure master race. This led to them starting to kill Jews and they started concentration camps where they would kill Jews by overworking them starving them or even putting them in gas chambers. These camps were Jews worst nightmares they were horrible. The holocaust events led to 6 million
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What really went on during the Holocaust? One of the worst places to be in were prisons called Concentration Camps. These prisons were very brutal‚ well organized‚ and there were different types of camps. First‚ these Concentration Camps were very brutal. Some examples of brutality are “when a person is captured they were beaten‚ tortured‚ starved‚ murdered by being worked to death‚ and by being put in gas chambers or large furnaces. A result of these actions 100 people died daily at the camps”
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