Miep Gies And The Holocaust

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This source talks about the heroes, crimes, and the villains of the Holocaust. In 1933 about 9 million Jews lived in the 21 countries in Europe, which soon will be military occupied by Germany in World war II.
By 1954 two out of every three European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. 1.5 million children where murdered in the holocaust. This figure includes about 2.3 million Jewish children, thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children. There were acts of courage and kindness in the Holocaust, one of which was Oscar Snider. Oscar Snider saved thousands of Jews who were facing death in concentration camps. Snider wasn’t the only one to save Jews facing death. Miep Gies, who risked her own life to hide Anne Frank and

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