Sacrifice: The Horrors Of Genocide

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This piece of research helps our reading with the book because, it gives us background of the atrocities that had happened during World War Two. When we read the book we are introduced to a world of persecution that we we are not familiar with. We live in a such a calm world(America) that we do not truly understand the genocide of an entire race and the amount of hate put into it. Only those who have lived through the chaos and destruction of their home could understand “evil.” However in order to have a idea of the pain they had to live through we have to be able to understand basic significant events that built up to the genocide. By learning about these horrific events we are able to empathizes with these

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