fighters fought the Nazi power. The Jews were equipped with only pistols and a few rifles. They dug tunnels and bunkers to hide and store stuff. Although the Germans defeated the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising‚ they did not stand a chance until the Jews ran out of men and supplies. “In July 22‚ 1942‚ the Nazis began sending more than 5‚000 Jews per day to the death camp at Treblinka. Between July and September 1942‚ the Nazis shipped about 265‚000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.” ("United
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demonstrate tremendous courage. Like what Eleanor Roosevelt says‚ the Hubermanns really did look fear right in the face. One example of this is‚ they allowed a Jew to hide in their home‚ going directly against the law and belief of Nazi Germany despite the harsh consequences that could be waiting for them (Zusak 173). The family all cared for the Jews‚ and put their lives on the line to protect and care for them to the best of their ability. Liesel‚ the foster daughter of the Hubermanns‚ showed tremendous
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In The Sunflower‚ Simon Wiesenthal documents his experiences in a Nazi Death Camp. Sent (along with other prisoners) to clean medical waste in a hospital converted for the express usage of injured German Soldiers. On the way‚ "Our column suddenly came to a halt at a crossroads. I could see nothing that might be holding us up but I noticed on the left of the street there was a military cemetery . . . and on each grave there was planted a sunflower . . . I stared spellbound . . . Suddenly I envied
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The Holocaust was a slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews from 1933-1945 led by Adolf Hitler. It is a word of Greek origin meaning‚ "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 and believed that they were the superiors and Jews were the inferiors and a threat to the German racial community. Although the Jews were the main objective‚ the Nazis also targeted other racial groups such as the gypsies‚ the disabled‚ Russians‚ homosexuals‚ and many other groups. To concentrate and
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Germany during WWII‚ a ruthless place for Jews in concentration camps. A large number of people who got put into concentration camps died either from being gassed or being worked to death. The bodies of those Jews would either be cremated or buried in mass graves‚ or not even buried at all. Hitler thought that the loss of WWI was the Jews fault‚ thus Hitler started the mass murder and Genocide of all Jewish people in Germany and Central Europe. There were approximately 20‚000 German concentration
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and its collaborators killed about six million Jews in the 1930s and 1940. Prior to 1938 the Nazis politically took civil rights away from Jewish people. They were not allowed to own businesses and they couldn’t hold civil-service posts. Jewish authored books were removed from libraries and burned. The Nuremberg laws‚ passed in September of 1935‚ decreed that only Aryans could be full German citizens‚ and it became illegal for Aryans and Jews to marry. The
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camps and why didn’t the US let St. Louis port in America when Cuba wouldn’t allow them to. Roosevelt had done a lot to facilitate the emigration of Jews. In 1933‚ 37‚000 Jews fled Germany‚ but 16‚000 returned in the next year. Why did these Jews return to Germany while the Nuremberg Laws were in effect? Every Jewish group affirmed the right of Jews to be German‚ to live in and love their country. They affirmed the legal right‚ the moral necessity‚ and the religious imparitive or not surrendering
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they began to immediately persecute the Jews‚ burn down several synagogues‚ and loot Jewish properties. 40‚000 Jews lost their property due to confiscation and were kicked out to neighboring towns. As this was going on‚ a isolated ghetto was established with many problems including hunger‚ overcrowding‚ and terrible sanitary conditions. In the ghetto‚ factories were set up and Jews were forced into slave labor. Due to these changes of environment‚ many Jews died due to starvation‚ disease‚ and exposure
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Kristallnacht was the first marked nationwide action against religion. The Nazi regime and their wish to implement Nuremberg’s laws helped push-start the process of degrading Jews to an inferior level in life by giving reason to start the riot. The accumulation of events and new laws leading to Kristallnacht forced thousands of Jews to be stuck on the border lines of Poland and Germany‚ thus setting the stage for Germany’s justification for the genocide yet to occur. The aftermath of Kristallnacht changed
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War 1 the Jews came into Palestine. Arabic-speaking Muslims were the dominant ethnic group at that time and many Arabs were willing to sell land to the incoming Jews .Other Palestinian Arabs were worried about becoming a minority in a country they considered their own. And guess what? That worry became true. The Arab Revolt was focused at both the British and the growing Jewish population. At this time‚ a new movement called "Zionism" began in the late 1800s‚ which influenced many Jews from around
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