When I went to Washington‚ DC in 8th grade‚ I got to talk to a Holocaust survivor. I got to hear everything he went through. I even saw the number tattoo with which he was identified while being a prisoner. While listening to him‚ it sparked interest in me to learn more about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragic event that started in 1933‚ during which Nazis occupied Poland and took Jews to concentration camps.(“Holocaust”) When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they began to go against the Jews
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It is difficult to talk about the Holocaust in Poland without speaking of this camp in some further detail. Many people refer to all Nazi camps as concentration camps‚ but in reality‚ there were several types of camps‚ such as: concentration camps‚ extermination camps‚ labor camps‚ prisoner
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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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During the Holocaust‚ the Nazis perceived women as weak‚ inferior‚ and sexual objects because they were useless in contributing to the warfare. An example is the way Jewish women were treated by the Nazis during the Holocaust. As a result‚ the Nazis viewed Jewish women as an agent of fertility‚ motherhood‚ and homebuilders. During the Holocaust‚ women were considered useless‚ especially pregnant women and mothers of small children‚ due to the fact that they were unable to participate in tasks of
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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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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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German citizens were not responsible for the Holocaust because many of them didn’t agree with the Nazi’s ideology and helped Jewish people by resisting and going against Nazi’s ideas. One way that German citizens were not responsible for the holocaust can be seen on Document #4. The author‚ Walter Meyer‚ was a German who was apart of a gang called the Noble White Pirates growing up in the Holocaust that resisted Nazi organizations‚ like the Nazi Youth. This document was for the citizens of the U
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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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How were Holocaust refugees accepted in the US. What will happen to the Jews when they come to the US? What will happen to Jews that come to the United States‚ will they be happy here or wanting to move back to Germany? Finally how many Jews really survived the Holocaust? You find out in the next few paragraphs. What will happen to Jews when they come to the US. Well when the US finally beat the Germans in the war the Jews got a lot of food. When they got all that food some of the Jews died
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Carly Underkoffler Dr. Brendon Corcoran English 338-401 April 19‚ 2011 The Holocaust: Death by Lost Hope "If you lose hope‚ somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving‚ you lose that courage to be‚ that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all." - Martin Luther King The Holocaust was a horrific genocide in which the Nazi party systematically exterminated millions of Jews‚ homosexuals‚ mentally retarded persons‚ and others‚ on the pretense of ‘purifying’ the German race. The Nazis
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