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The world was silent during the Holocaust. The people that were involved in the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the victims Jews, Soviets, and many other groups of people. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 in Europe and northern Africa. It happened because Adolf Hitler wanted a "pure race" and he chose to blame and use the Jews as a scapegoat since they were not well liked at the time anyways. He also wanted to eradicate the Jews for many other reasons, such as land, bankruptcy…

Did you know that 17 million people died during the Holocaust. 6 million of those people were Jewish. The book Night an the speech Peril of Indifference describe the hardships of the Jews. They are both written by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust. Night is a description of Elie’s journey through the Holocaust, and Perils of Indifference was the speech he gave at the White House for the Millennium Lecture Series. Night is more effective at projecting Elie’s message that indifference is…

Holocaust Essay In Germany and Eastern Europe the holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler because he hated the Jews because he thought they caused the Great Depression. Also in Night by Elie Wiesel he has seen hundreds of innocent people die before his eyes. During the holocaust so many Jews died under Nazi rule in Germany because the Nazi's did not like them they thought they were bad people and so they killed lots of Jews. Many people died because they were Jews and the Nazi's hated them…

The Second World War witnessed one of the most gruesome and tragic crimes committed against humanity, and the Holocaust, a genocide against the Jews and which occurred at the hands of the Nazis, was among them. In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, readers are given a closer look at what may have happened behind those fences, and behind the doors to the chambers where millions of Jews were brought to death. On the surface, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story about a kid, Bruno, who is only…

Many characters in pieces of literature are characterized as strong, brave, and courageous. The Resistance of Auschwitz in the novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe are unique in which they are quietly revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of…

The film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni illustrates how the worst situation can be made into the best of a situation with humor. The film is centered around the Holocaust in the late 1930s in Arezzo, Italy narrating the life of a Jewish man and poet, Guido Orefice, who is trying to win over an Italian schoolteacher who is set to marry another man, Dora. Guido’s sense of humor gets him out of a lot of trouble, like intentionally giving a speech to a group of children at her…

The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…

What are the Nuremberg Trials? The Nuremberg Trials are a set of thirteen trials held to bring Nazi criminals and traitors to justice. The trials were held between 1945 to 1949; high-ranking officers, doctors, lawyers, and Nazi Party officials were held as the defendants. The trials at Nuremberg at a landmark for an establishment of a permanent international court; dealing with crimes against humanity, such as genocide. These trials lead to new technological development and strategies to deal…

Experiments of the Holocaust Did you know that doctors were the backbone of the Nazi genocide? The doctors experimented on anyone deemed undesirable, such Jews, homosexuals and the disabled. They mercilessly experimented on thousands of people and few ever paid for their crimes. The experiments hurt and killed thousands of people and showed the most vile of science and medicine. The experiments were divided into three categories, military experiments, pharmaceutical and racially motivated. The…

Why did Josef Mengele misuse his knowledge Who was Josef Mengele? Josef Mengele also known as the "Angel of Death" was a German officer and physician in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World War 2. Dr Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, he is the eldest of three sons of Karl and Walburga Mengele. He studied philosophy at Munich and medicine at Frankfurt University. In 1935 his dissertation dealt with racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw. He was a notorious member…