The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which nearly six million European Jews were killed by the great dictator Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the World War II associated with the Nazis. In other words Holocaust also means Ethnic cleansing, Deportation or Mass murder, where innocent people were killed and executed. The Holocaust was the organized, officious, the state-sponsored hounding and murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” Another meaning is a great or complete devastation by fire, mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life by fire. Historically it refers to the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in
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He has many nostalgic memories like the families vanishing into thin air and the ‘children shaking like leaves in the wind’, and these help the readers to understand the horrors inflicted on the Jews. He addresses both how the Jews were treated, and the resulting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that thousands of Jews developed after these events, like soldiers in the war, and how those memories will forever haunt …show more content…
There is no value for human life. The dead people are not given a proper burial. Burial is done in mass where, the grave is torrid with human blood. The raiders kick and force open the doors and kill the innocent souls. The whole place is filled with the stench of blood. The moon is personified as being compassionate enough to show the way in the night to the people who are searching for their near and dear ones. The whole world has become upside down. The living people experience an eternal sorrow, danger and death. Whereas the dead and the departed souls ‘are blessed with an instant death.’ Between 1941 and 1944, the Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities. The living people have to face a lot of hardships in the form of long tortuous
He has many nostalgic memories like the families vanishing into thin air and the ‘children shaking like leaves in the wind’, and these help the readers to understand the horrors inflicted on the Jews. He addresses both how the Jews were treated, and the resulting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that thousands of Jews developed after these events, like soldiers in the war, and how those memories will forever haunt …show more content…
There is no value for human life. The dead people are not given a proper burial. Burial is done in mass where, the grave is torrid with human blood. The raiders kick and force open the doors and kill the innocent souls. The whole place is filled with the stench of blood. The moon is personified as being compassionate enough to show the way in the night to the people who are searching for their near and dear ones. The whole world has become upside down. The living people experience an eternal sorrow, danger and death. Whereas the dead and the departed souls ‘are blessed with an instant death.’ Between 1941 and 1944, the Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities. The living people have to face a lot of hardships in the form of long tortuous