Holocaust victims

The Holocaust began in 1933. Adolf Hitler created the Holocaust. The Holocaust was mass murder of the Jews. Victims of the Holocaust suffered for four years. There were 566,000 victims of the Holocaust (“Women”). Victims in the holocaust were Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals. The people who refused to go the concentration camps were taken some where else.The Jews were taken to the concentration camps against their will. The Jews were taken to the concentration camps by trains. There were about 1,000 people on each train. The people were stacked on top of each other in their bunks on the train. The passengers did not do anything on the train because there was not enough room for activities to do and there were no activities for them to do…

The tragedy known as the Holocaust was the systematic murder of 6 million Jews (Strahinich 7). However, not only Jews were ruthlessly murdered by the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazi Party. Approximately 5 million gypsies, handicapped people, Soviets, homosexuals, Slavs, and anyone deemed sub-human by the Nazi regime also perished in the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The Holocaust took place mainly in Germany and its annexed countries like Poland, but it was present in…

Holocaust victims are physically dehumanized everyday while in the concentration camps, however Elie Wiesel was not affected by this treatment. To begin with many prisoners go “Days without food or water” (Wiesel 95). Prisoners are not even given rations while taking long journeys but when they are given rations it is only a piece of bread and a cup of water. The ration is enough to keep them alive but not enough to nurture them. Along with that “…began to devour it. He didn’t get far. Two had…

According to “Jakob’s Story”, the Holocaust victims suffered the first reason; being abused. The text claims that Jakob states, “We were often beaten and abused constantly” (Blankitny paragraph 8). By looking at these citations, one is able to see that the Jews were constantly because they were put in gas chamber and then to crematoria. The painful cries echoing and the ear-piercing screams frightened the Jews forever. One of the most terrible feelings that the Jews did experience was knowing…

Reading Response #2 Book: Prisoner B-3087 By: Nakayla 8-5 Retell: Yanek Gruener is a victim of the Holocaust, went through one of the worst things that have ever happen to people. During the years 1939-1945 when the second world war was going on, Yanek and his family lived on the roof of there old flat for three years. Eventually the Nazis had caught Yanek and took him through ten different concentration camps, starving, and torturing him and many others. As tons of people died each day there…

Over 5 million non-Jewish people including gypsies, homosexuals, polish people, and the disabled were all victims of the Holocaust. The Nazis killed 11 million people during the Holocaust. Six million people were jewish people and five million were non-Jewish people. Almost half of the victims of the Holocaust were non-Jewish (Berenbaum). Most victims were killed in gas chambers and then burned in ovens. Some non-Jewish victims were killed not because of their beliefs, but because of…

How can literature and film help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust? Literature and film are important sources that helps us learn about our past. Also, it helps us remember the past and not make the same mistakes over again. These are two key components to learning about the past and remembering the past. If it weren't for film and literature we might not remember all that happened in the past and might repeat it in the future. This helps us learn from our mistakes and helps…

The Holocaust- Victim, Perpetrator and Bystander Research Essay During the Holocaust, many daily dilemmas surfaced that evoked various reactions from groups and individuals in society. In response to these dilemmas, these groups and individuals made choices that defined them as either perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, victims, or rescuers. These groups include the Church in Aryan territories, and the Hitler Youth. Both of these groups have placed themselves in various points along this…

Also, what can the United States learn from Germany about moving on from the most disgusting parts of our own history? In 1952 Germany started paying reparations to the victims of the Holocaust. The process wasn't perfect by any means, if a victim was filed under resistor instead of victim they got more money, since homosexuality was still illegal people persecuted by the Nazis for their sexuality couldn't claim reparations, victims in places under Soviet control couldn't get payments, and…

Annelies Frank is the most memorable victim of the Holocaust. At only thirteen years old she received her diary as a birthday present and used it as a way to cope with conditions of being in hiding- of being alone. Her diary has become the most read novel pertaining to the Holocaust. She left a legacy of the horrid things that the Nazis did during their reign and although she never intended it to do such, she wrote something that eventually was translated into 67 languages, has been read by…