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    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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    When Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September on 1939, the Polish population had no idea of the horrific plans the Nazi’s had for them. Upon invasion, the Polish army fought hard to defend the homeland, however they received little support from their Allies. Being greatly outnumbered by Nazi forces and were defeated on 6 October 1939. Within a month of German occupation Poland began to become heavily segregated. Many Poles were exiled from their homes so that German soldiers had a place…

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    throughout the ghettos causing many people to get very sick and usually die. Ghettos were usually overcrowded and had very harsh living conditions (“The Death Camps” 20). The main ghettos during Holocaust were Warsaw and Lodz which were both located in Poland. Warsaw was home to over 400,000 people; Lodz housed 205,000 people. In the ghettos, there was no sewage system which only aided in the spread of disease amongst the people living there (“Rice Jr.” 56). Food within the ghettos was very…

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    Brady Bauck Multicultural Literature Multicultural Book Review May 17th, 2018 Maus I Author's Authority. According to the Shoah Research center over six million Jews were beaten, hung, gassed, and tortured in concentration camps and on the streets, all throughout Europe under the direction of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party” This awful event was called the Holocaust, one of the most horrible things to have ever happened in the Nineteenth century. Jews were forced to leave giving everything up.…

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    my son uses Polish when he converses with us. The biggest problem is with my daughter: she doesn’t want to speak Polish and she uses English in 99%, which of course has negative effects on her ability to speak Polish. My children will be going to Poland in a few weeks and they will stay there for a month, so I am really happy that she won’t have any opportunity to use English. We also try to choose Polish speaking doctors, car mechanics, etc. When I buy a house, I will ask a Polish estate agent…

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    Edith Hahn Beer Essay

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    Edith Hahn Beer was born in 1914 in Vienna to Leopold and Klothilde Hahn. She was the second of three girls. A very early age she read the newspaper, and had an interest in law and politics. A local teacher saw her interest and told her father that he should send her to the university, which was very unusual for a woman in Vienna during the 1930s. Edith had almost completed her degree when the process between Germany and Austria occurred. After the process she went back to take her last exam to…

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    war of all time. The US got involved because they were attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. It was America vs Germany and Japan. There were many causes of WWII September 1939 Brittan and France declared war on Germany on the invasion of Poland. German people were unhappy because the treaty of Versailles was too harsh so they voted on a man who would tear up the treaty and his name was Adolf Hitler. Hitler ordered German troops into the Rhine land and allied with Italy and Japan.…

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    one thousand two hundred affiliate camps, and thousands of smaller camps. The main four concentration camps that were built were Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhauser, and Weimar. The Nazis established concentration camps all over Germany and some in Poland, some were even in the middle of…

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    The Holocaust What was the Holocaust of WWII? I have always loved the history of World War II, and the heartbreak that came with it. Hitler’s reign is very interesting, as well as disturbing. I knew about Nazi Concentration Camps, most people in America do, but as I started getting older, I realized all of the suffering and pain behind those walls, so I’ve been doing more and more research on the Holocaust. There is a lot of information about the Holocaust that isn’t taught in detail, such as…

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    approximately 2,000 trains to move about 3 million people to death camps and shooting locations in eastern Europe. Knowledge of the Jewish transports and deportations was especially well known on the Ostbahn, the railway that operated in occupied Poland…

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    Water is one of the main necessities of life. Without water, our bodies would not function correctly. But wait, does it really matter where you get your water from? Of course it does. Bottled water and tap water have been in question to see which one is more effective in your life. Many people believe that tap water is unhealthier for you, that it does not come from a clean water source. Tap water is proven to be more effective than bottled water. Tap water is more cost effective and is proven…

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