the significance of two important words‚ “never forget.” It is crucial that we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust and the lessons that it offers. Sadly‚ since the Holocaust‚ genocides have continued to occur around the world‚ up to the present day. I have struggled to understand why these horrors continue to happen‚ and I will offer some ideas. While the horrors of the Holocaust are well known‚ most people do not consider the many important lessons that it teaches. Martin Luther King Junior
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The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies that were made possible by anti-Semitism‚ the indifference of other nations‚ isolationism politics‚ and outright fear. Mrs. Arana/ Period 3 Miranda Ruiz 5/16/11 The road to the creation of the Holocaust started with one man. Adolf Hitler. Although thousands of people agreed with anti-Semitism at the time he was the one who started to take his thoughts into actions. After World War 1‚ German was in great poverty‚ unemployment
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There are many novels and films that have be created to portray the stories of Holocaust victims‚ two examples being the film Life is Beautiful and the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II. Life is Beautiful tells the story of Guido‚ a Jewish man in Italy before the war. He fell in love with Dora‚ a beautiful teacher‚ and eventually married her and had a son‚ Giosue. As the Nazis took over‚ Guido‚ Dora and Giosue were taken to a concentration camp‚ where Guido does everything he can to keep his family
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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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the holocaust. So many suffer mental wounds from the pain they encountered that most believed wasn’t possible. But do you know what happened to the survivors? What effects did this tragedy have? According to an article labeled Results and Effects of World War 2‚ “The long range of psychological effects the Holocaust had on survivors are indeed multitudinal. There can be no doubt that profound shock enveloped those arriving at the death camps.” The occasional hushed rumor about the holocaust was
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day that marked the starting point of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very terrifying and horrific event. Killing an estimated six million Jews which is unthinkable. In Hebrew School‚ when I was about 11 years old‚ I first heard about the holocaust and what it was. It shocked me a great deal‚ and I thought to myself‚ why anyone would think of committing this type of mass genocide. Over the next couple years I learned more and more about what happened‚ who is was between and how it affected people
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“The Holocaust: Systems of Persecution” During World War II‚ Adolf Hitler was persecuting minorities in Europe. His main target were the Jews. In order to accomplish this‚ Hitler used numerous systems of persecution‚ including propaganda‚ the relocation of people to ghettos‚ and the creation of laws to take away peoples’ rights. However‚ one of the most effective systems? that was used during the Holocaust was the use of technology to effectively exterminate the minorities that were‚ in his opinion
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The Holocaust‚ a gruesome slaughter of what is estimated to be eleven million people‚ mainly Jews‚ is arguably the most influential event to occur in human history. This tragic event occurred in the modern day countries of Germany‚ Austria and Poland‚ which were all Nazi occupied countries at the time. Before Jews and other victims were murdered‚ they were often forced into physical labor. Victims were also killed in horrendous ways‚ such as being left without food and water for days‚ before being
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order that they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.” Adolph Hitler Mein Kampf Ch 6 (1) The Holocaust was not just an event. It was a process that continued for over a decade and involved millions of people. The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jews by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned‚ government-ordered‚ systematic plan of mass annihilation powered by the use of propaganda. The definition
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Holocaust‚ The Concentration Camps …the first anti – Semitic measures taken by the National Socialist immediately after taking over government in 1933. The measures represent the end of the equality of citizenship that Jews had enjoyed throughout Germany since 1871. By gradually removing the citizenship rights of German Jews the Nazi’s were fulfilling one of the principal demands that radical anti – Semites had been making since the 1870’s. ¹ Holocaust is defined as the systematic‚ bureaucratic
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