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    Holocaust Rescuers

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    given to ordinary people risking their lives‚ to provide even the smallest comfort to those in need‚ during the Holocaust. However‚ when actually faced with the notion of risking ones life to save that of a stranger‚ most shudder away in fear; but not that of a rescuer. These selfless individuals were far and few between in the times preceding and throughout the horrific acts of the Holocaust. In Nazi occupied countries‚ those who are considered rescuers represented a minority of less than one-half of

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    some of the numerous systems that Adolf Hitler used to implement the Holocaust. Because of Hitler‚ nearly six million Jews were exterminated. Hitler’s idea of a "perfect world" was a world full of people‚ but only people with blonde hair and blue eyes‚ although he himself had dark hair and brown eyes. So basically‚ he is a hypocrite in my opinion. One of the systems of persecution that was used to implement the Holocaust was the use of gas chambers and gas vans. The Nazis would capture innocent

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    Women in the Holocaust

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    Women in the Holocaust [pic] Introduction "Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork‚ the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews....If it’s that bad in Holland‚ what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed

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    Goodness Holocaust

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    Can good deeds outshine the bad? It is relatively unknown. Everyone has a different perspective of ‘goodness’. During the Holocaust‚ hundreds of rebellions occurred. These people believed that goodness could surpass the evil that surrounded them. Goodness can find a way through the darkness by standing up‚ believing in something‚ and by everyone remembering the immoral deeds that were done. Goodness can always be brought to life by standing up for oneself. Jews may not have stood up for themselves

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    Obedience in the Holocaust

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    The Holocaust is known as one of the most devastating‚ or perhaps even the most devastating incident in human history. On paper‚ the dizzying statistics are hard to believe. The mass executions‚ the terrible conditions‚ the ruthlessness‚ and the passivity of the majority of witnesses to the traumatic events all seem like a giant‚ twisted story blown out of proportion to scare children. But the stories are true‚ the terror really happened‚ and ordinary citizens were convinced into doing savage deeds

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    Affected by the Holocaust

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    Michael Horst 10/22/14 English 254 Final Draft Affected by the Holocaust Introduction “I thought that the whole world was a concentration camp. And I concentrated on one single thing. How to survive one more day. How to survive one more experiment. How not to get sick” - Eva Kol‚ Auschwitz concentration camp survivor‚ Forgiving Dr. Mengele Survive. Can you imagine making this your priority every single day? Not living‚ but surviving. This quote is 50 years after WWII had ended and this lady‚ Eva

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    (Henry Louis Gates). Anti semitism is sometimes referred to as "the longest hatred‚" because it has been going on for over two thousand years. The racial antisemitism of the Nazis took it to a whole new level‚ killing over six million Jews in the holocaust. (Antisemitism in History np) That hatred that the Nazis and many others had towards the Jews was a hatred that had been growing for thousands of years. Just because of their religion‚ Jews were often kicked out of the

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    Night/Holocaust

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    The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Elie’s experience in the holocaust. Elie and his father were sent to different death camps to work and attempt to survive selections‚ starvation‚ and exhaustion. During the holocaust‚ Night shows us‚ several groups of people were singled out and not wanted‚ therefore‚ they were executed; Jews were the main focus of this selection of people. Others would include; Gypsies (Sinti and Roma)‚ homosexual men‚ handicapped Germans‚ Poles‚ and political dissidents

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    5.04 the holocaust

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    Hey there my name is Sofie I am 8 years old‚ before the holocaust started I lived in Kaunas‚ Lithuania. I remember the day that my family and I were taken‚ I had just gotten to the dining table and started eating breakfast momma made all of my favorites that morning because it was the day before my birthday it is what she does every year. Two men who looked like soldiers knocked on the door papa invited them in and offered them breakfast‚ the politely declined and told us that we need to pack one

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    Children were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups in accordance with their ideological views‚ either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed children both for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks. The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children‚ including over

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