Holocaust Essay

The Holocaust The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has literally became known as “whole burned” involving a horrible tragedy, the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews, but also other groups including homosexuals, Gypsies, Catholic Priests, Prisoners of War, Russians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Poles by the German Nazi regime during the Second World…

Anne Frank was the best known 13 year old in the Holocaust. The diary has been made into more than 60 different languages since the first copy was published. 70 years later, the context and backstory of her diary are still getting taught in school today. Anne had the dream of being a writer and her dream became reality. Otto Frank published it on the 25th of June, 1947. She first packs her diary when going into hiding. She adds to it almost daily. She jots down the entirety of her thoughts and…

The conditions many victims faced during the Holocaust were unspeakable. Among one of these victims stands Eliezer Wiesel, now known as Elie Wiesel, author of Night and winner of The Nobel Peace Prize. The torture, the starvation, the endless grief that Wiesel had to go through is saddening, yet says so much about his character. Throughout this novel his intelligence, determination, and caring shows through his actions and lets him survive. Wiesel’s intelligence and cleverness helped him in…

What do you know about the awful things that happened to the Jewish during the time of the Holocaust? The word “Holocaust,” which came from the Greek words “holos,” meaning whole, and “kaustos,” meaning burned, was a word used to describe a sacrificial offering that is burned completely. But, during the 20th century, an agonizing event occurred, giving the word a new and horrible meaning. The Holocaust was a systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored persecution by the Nazi regime that led to…

There were many resistance groups involved in the Holocaust. The Holocaust took place during World War Ⅱ. As many as 6 million Jews and 1.5 million babies were killed from 1933 to 1945. Adolf Hitler lead this movement and had Nazi soldiers carry out his plans. The most popular concentration camp to this day is Auschwitz- Birkenau. During this time many camps and ghettos had uprisings with Jewish prisoners. One ghetto that experienced resistance was Warsaw. In September of 1939, the Nazi…

would try to kill him and all this was happening because of the holocaust. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."…

The holocaust was a very tragic period of time where millions of people were being killed just because they weren’t the same as the Germans. The most targeted people were the Jews, having accounted of over five million deaths during the reign of Nazi Germany. Due to this event, we can learn many lessons from it to prevent anything like this ever happening again in the future. The United States made a few mistakes during that time that it heavily regrets. It’s vital that we have to learn from…

Have you ever wondered why the Nazi Germans hated the Jews enough to distinguish their entire race? I have always wondered this and wanted to figure out the causes and motives to the Holocaust. Some historians believe that the Nazis had planned the extermination of the Jews when Hitler took power in 1933. Other historians believe that the extermination of the Jews wasn’t originally planned. Either way, the Nazis are still responsible for the death of 6 million innocent Jews. The first World War…

citizens before 1933, before the reign of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazis. Drawing a conclusion, from quotes said by the survivors, many may say that Holocaust just appeared with the reign of Adolf Hitler, without any real preparation. However, those people are completely wrong, as the Holocaust ( or ‘Shoah’ in Hebrew) could never have happened without preparation of antisemitism, or prejudice or discrimination of Jews, over one thousand years.…

With a mass of accounts from victims and witnesses of the Holocaust in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an…