websites that I found on the holocaust and also I will tell you about the word "holocaust‚" made from the Greek words "holos" (whole) and "kaustos" (burned)‚ these words were historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. But since 1945‚ the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European jews as well as members of some other persecuted groups. And about the others which say the same thing which is the holocaust was the systematic‚ bureaucratic
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Abbey Goss English 3 Ms. Henry May‚ 14‚ 2014 The Holocaust was an eye-opening event that changed many people’s lives forever. Hitler worked his way into being chancellor and finally dictator in Germany. He put many lies in people’s heads so they would become his followers. The Germans had an extreme hatred toward the Jews and that led to the isolation of Jews in ghettos and then sending them to concentration/death camps. Those who survived were traumatized forever. The were affected emotionally
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the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews‚ Roma Gypsies‚ prisoners of Soviet war‚ as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question‚ the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known as "death camps". The most common method of execution in these camps was by Zyklon B a gas
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Unarmed forces seems like an unlikely form of resistance‚ but in the context of the Holocaust‚ it represents small‚ individual acts of courage and bravery that resulted in a life or lives being saved. One of these acts included leaving the ghetto and living on the Aryan side‚ as a mean to stay alive‚ this was known as ‘passing’. This was supported as resistance because of it’s nature to outwit‚ defy and ultimately resist the aims of the Germans. The danger of being caught did not stop after the passing
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Reflection The holocaust has proven to be a very devastating period in history‚ whether that is because of the 11 million Jewish‚ Jehovah’s‚ Homosexuals‚ gypsies and disabled people that lost their lives or the fact that a man as evil as Hitler had actually planned on killing millions of people‚ and then building a museum on an “extinct race” after he was sure he had assassinated all of the so called “inferiors.” Even the name Holocaust is obtained from the Greek words “completely burnt.” This
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Children of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a terrible genocide in which Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis killed millions of the Jewish community and others that they believed to be inferior to themselves. Jews were sent to concentration camps and killing camps because of their race. This slaughtering of innocent people lasted from 1933 to 1945. Among these deaths‚ some of the worst were those of children. Those Killed During the Holocaust‚ over 1.2 million Jewish children were killed. There
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learned about the Holocaust‚ according to the Oxford dictionary: the massive “murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-45”. This idea of persecuting Jews just for thinking differently was the perfect proof of the craziness I once thought discrimination implied. I founded insane that someone could kill 6 million Jews due to their religion. Trying to learn more about the Holocaust‚ I found my self in front of a website full of nonsense arguments denying the Holocaust‚ the title of
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died from disease and overwork or were executed. Dachau’s prisoners were physically and mentally disabled and homosexual. Most were used for slave labor‚ meaning that the prisoners were slaves. Being slaves wasn’t the worst part in the holocaust. Some prisoners went through brutal experiments by the Nazis or doctors. The majority of the prisoners in the camp died. The first ever Nazi
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This is what the Jews had to endure for over a decade during the Holocaust. There were several tortures in the concentration camps. One was the actual train ride to get to the camps. The victims were shoved onto a train and crammed until no more would fit and if there were any left they would be shot. The long hours of
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The Holocaust was a devastating time in history that took many lives and changed a lot of people’s outlooks on life itself. The Holocaust started on January 30‚ 1933‚ when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany‚ and it ended on May 8‚ 1945 when the war in Europe ended. During the Holocaust approximately 5‚860‚000 Jews lost their lives‚ which include children also. Many Jewish communities suffered significant losses during the Holocaust. Also‚ it is estimated that the Nazis established approximately
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