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    Throughout the Holocaust there has been a struggle to survive and all the Jews could do is endure and persevere the waves of death surrounding them if they ever wanted to make it out alive. One primary example is in Schindler’s List where Mrs. Nussbaum, trying to make the best of the situation just like all the other Jews forced into the ghetto, tells her husband their ghetto apartment could be worse. In “Schindler’s List”, she could’ve cried and felt hopeless but she persevered through the…

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    The Holocaust means the genocide of the Jewish people carried out according to the Nazi Final Solution, aimed at systematically killing all members of the Jewish people. Then, a few decades after the Holocaust, its denial started, in several ways. One of them was trivializing the Holocaust and denying its uniqueness. In no other time in human history was one nation nothing but victim, while another one was nothing but criminals. German Jews did nothing to threaten the German people. All they…

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    Would you speak out for strangers when horrific things happened around you? Unfortunately, Jewish Holocaust was a significant case that happened in history that no one stand up for it until 6 million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazi Germany SS officers between 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust was unprecedented attempt made by Nazi Germany and it collaborator to annihilate the Jewish people and to destroy what the Nazis defined as Judaism. The people who have one Jewish grandparent were…

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    Holocaust Reflection

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    As a young practicing Jewish American, there were not many years where the word, Holocaust did not have a strong meaning to me. The Holocaust was the murder of over 6 million Jews and over 8 million non Jews by Nazi Germany. I grew up constantly being educated on the historical tragedy. It was a part of my history therefore, my parents made sure to make it a part of my education. Unfortunately, this is not the case for most individuals not just in America, but world-wide as well. It is not…

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    Holocaust In Israel

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    did the Holocaust plat a role in the establishment of the State of Israel? Six million Jews, mothers, children, fathers, grandparents, murder. The Holocaust, the horrific event that placed an enormous impact on Jewish people, Jewish life, and Jewish identity. Most Jewish survivors, who had survived concentration camps or had been in hiding, were unable or unwilling to return to Eastern Europe because of postwar anti-Semitism and the destruction of their communities during the Holocaust. Many of…

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    Revisionists Holocaust

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    The evidence the revisionists have as their proof defending that the Holocaust or specific events or Nazi atrocities did not happen include, investigators took hair and hair clasps that were found in the investigation. These were tested for cyanide and tested the covers of ventilation ducts where it was told the prisoners were trapped under. These people dispute the validity of the accusations of the mass killings. Accusations of the mass killings were disputed for the fact that investigators…

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    The Holocaust The Holocaust is something that The Jews will never forget. In this period there were a lot of Persecution. The master of the 6 millions killed was the Nazis. They had no mercy with people and they murdered every Jews they saw. The USA were the one who tried to help the Jews in this situation. Adolf Hitler were the boss of the Nazis. He was born in Australia in 1889. The reason why Hitler try to revolt is because when he was in Vietnam he wanted to be a artist but we told him…

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    Holocaust Persecution

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    Ever since the Holocaust ended, people have always considered Jews to be the only victims. What about the others? The Holocaust had not only claimed the lives of Jews, but others as well. The persecution of not just Jews was a way to eliminate all those who were considered a threat to the Aryan race because of their disability, nationality, and ethnicity. During the Holocaust if one had any kind of disability, mental or physical, they would be persecuted. In an article about the lives of…

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    The Victims and The Perpetrators in the Holocaust The attitudes of the perpetrators and the victims towards the holocaust were vastly different. The Nazis who were the perpetrators in the Holocaust saw the Jewish population as nothing but a large mass to justify the killings. While the Jews who were the victims in the Holocaust recognized that not all Germans were bad people who deserved hate. Through these differences, the Jews and the Nazis had similar attitudes because they were both trying…

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    Holocaust Atrocities

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    The Atrocities of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic killing of people of Jewish culture. That does not mean that everyone else was safe. They also targeted homosexuals, the mentally ill, gypsies (people of Romanian culture) slavic people (Polish and Lithuanians) and communists. There were many people the Nazi party targeted. The word Holocaust comes from two greek words, holos (whole) and kaustos (burned) (Holocaust encyclopedia). In early 1933, the Jewish…

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