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Most people know very little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important…

I wish that I could remember the German Language as much as my own. Those thoughts played over and over in my head as I looked back at how great of a trip I had overseas. The time was June of 2017. It was an exciting time, the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the NBA Finals, summer break was beginning, and I had the freedom to do anything. The most thrilling event was still ahead of me and that was my trip to Europe. When the trip was first announced my sophomore year I knew this was a once in a…

Samantha Navarrete Mrs. Joanne Treffner English 1 June 2015 Shedding Light on Night “The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.” -Mal Pancoast Elie Wiesel would definitely have agreed with Mrs. Pancoast. Almost seventy years have passed since the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945 when Elie Wiesel was released from the clenches of the Nazi Germany concentration camp. Through the hardships and devastating conditions. Elie Wiesel survived to write his heart wrenching memoir…