The Holocaust

The Holocaust began in 1933, during the time of World War II; this event occurred during the ruling of Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust was an effect of anti-Semitism; which was one of the main reasons that the Holocaust was such a large genocide. Many Jews were afraid to leave their house during the period of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was a Jew whose family was impacted by the war. Although any example of genocide is very serious, the Holocaust is one of the largest known types of genocide, with approximately six million Jews killed. Holocaust is a Greek word with the meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Holocaust era lasted from the year 1933 to1945. This genocide was inflicted by the Nazi regime all throughout Europe. The population of Jews in Europe, before the occurrence of the Holocaust, was around 9 million. The Holocaust was known as the “final solution.” The Nazis not only persecuted Jews but anyone that did not match that of the normal. Concentration camps were started at the beginning of the…

Holocaust denial The Holocaust was a genocide in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime, controlled by Adolf Hitler and its collaborators; the killings took place through Nazi Germany and German occupied territories. Between 1941 and 1945, Jews were targeted and murdered by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust was divided in various parts; first they passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, later they started to group them into neighborhoods called ghettos, which were extremely…

Causes of the Holocaust The Holocaust is considered one of the most horrific times faced by the Jewish community in Europe and the world at large. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust took place primarily in Germany and Poland from 1933 to 1945. Factors such as dehumanization, racism, and crowd mentality created the Holocaust. These factors and others caused one of the world's…

The holocaust was one of the worst genocides taken place in history. Eleven million innocents lives were taken by a mass murder, Adolf Hitler. He deliberately killed millions of people just because they were Jewish. With today’s society, it will be impossible for something like that to reoccur. Today’s massive access to the internet and social media will make it impossible to hide and not take action on what was occurring, we also no longer have a dictatorship like they had back in the day, and…

The holocaust was one of the biggest massacres of history. For the 12 years that Germany was ruled by the Nazi Party, a central belief was that there existed in society, certain people who were dangerous and needed to be eliminated for German society to flourish and survive. Before WW2 the population of Germany was 9.6 million during the period of the holocaust it dropped to 3.5 million. It shows it was one of the biggest mass murders ever and not only effected the Jewish but also the German…

The Holocaust is known as the genocide In which Adolf Hitlers Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million jews. Out of those six million jews one million jewish children were killed, along with many other groups. For example homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Jehovah witnesses, and communists were all victims of this mass genocide. Along with the five million jews killed ,six million non jewish victims were victims of the Nazi mass murders. The Nazis would storm…

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…

The Holocaust was a point in time which included mass genocide of Jewish Europeans and other people Germany felt should be extinguished. The tragedy was also given the title “shoah”, which is Hebrew for the phrase “the catastrophe”; however, the term “Holocaust” was used more often to describe the events that took place. This paper will cover three topics: Who was Adolf Hitler, what was the Holocaust, and the statistics of the tragic events. The Holocaust had its beginning in 1933, when the…

In 1933 the holocaust hit Germany,after Adolf hitter over threw the government in 1933. The holocaust was a plan to capture Jewish people and kill them.In 1935 the Nazis passed laws which stripped Jews of their German citizenship and took away their rights. Life for the Jewish citizens became instantly worse until of World War 1 in 1939. When the German citizens started to quickly lose their rights and got stripped of things like their homes,food and most importantly freedom. Adolf Hitler…

The holocaust was a time of misery and death. It was one of the worst times in history. A mass murder of over 6 million Jews under the order of Adolf Hitler. But why did Hitler do this? Was this his plan all along or is that what he had to resort to in order to eliminate the inferior “race of the Jews?” Why he did he have such a strong belief in superiority of the German Aryan race? In in 1939, Hitler was in power in Nazi Germany. Jews feared for their lives. Simply walking down the street…