The Holocaust

About 10 - 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust, and so many more lives were affected outside of this number. Six million of those killed were Jews, seven million were Soviet civilians, and the rest killed were other minorities such as homosexuals, gypsies, and people with disabilities. The holocaust is one of the most horrific and complicated events in history, and it had a lasting effect on all the people involved on both sides. Nazis put the people they were going to kill…

areas that people lived in, and were abused mentally and physically. Haunting memories and the little value was placed on human life during the Holocaust will permanently remain in the minds of the survivors. The holocaust was a mass murder of many groups, who were also abused and tortured, and the survivors will never forget their experience. The holocaust claimed the lives of 6 million Jews and 5 million others persecuted by the Nazis. The Nazis had plenty of lists, some including…

Based on my studies of genocides and the Holocaust, I have come to the conclusion that genocide’s do not always require a powerful leader in order for such tragic horrors to take place. On the contrary, it takes a merciless and inhuman organization of individuals led by a commander in order for such catastrophe to occur. Even as an adult who had no involvement in the Holocaust, the validity behind the extermination of Jews can still resonate tremendous sorrow and guilt for what occurred. I…

Thousands of people died during the Holocaust due to medical experiments and poor doctoring. To be a doctor during the holocaust had to be German and part of the Nazi party. They did not take their Hippocrates Oath seriously, and commonly seemed to act the exact opposite. Doctors would also decide who was fit to work and who wasn't. They also sterilized the workers or terminated pregnancies. Some doctors would even have experiments done on people of the camps. Holocaust doctors were inhumane and…

Holocaust: destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclearwar. What is genocide? What was the purpose for it? Genocide is the deliberate killing of a largegroup of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Auschwitz concentrationcamp is a major example and evidence for the Holocaust. “No matter what I accomplish, itdoesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.” from Art Spiegelman, Maus, II: AndHere My Troubles Began on CNN.com,…

There are many similarities between the character in my holocaust novel and my resilient hero novel. In my holocaust novel, my character faces many challenges, she was living in the time of the holocaust, which was a very bad time for jews. Both of the characters in my novel study (Ender’s Game) and (Number The Stars) took very different paths to display heroic actions, one path being he actually had to work to be a hero by helping other people. The other path being that she never gave up on…

was so that when they have no energy and can not work they could be shot or would die on the spot possibly from starvation and then they wouldn't having any energy left in them. Starvation is one of the major things that most people during the Holocaust died from. The average meals of the day were very little and some days the people didn't get anything to eat at all. In the morning the prisoners would most likely not get anything. For lunch they would get a small portion of bread that was…

Many things have emotionally affected the Survivors of the Holocaust, something that affected them the most was being liberated by Jewish soldiers. This paper explains emotions of the survivors and liberators and how it affects them today. How liberators feel emotionally as the released and saved people from concentration and death camps. That the survivors still feel like they are living in the camps emotionally. Survivors respond when being severed or waiting in line. The feeling of the…

forced to lose their identity as humans for the sake of the Nazi’s protection. There are many facts that support the reasons why the Jews were oppressed. They range from how the Jews were mistreated, to the amount of deaths of Jews by the end of the Holocaust. According to historical documents and journals, it is evident that Jews in concentration…

The Holocaust was the fault of Hitler and the leaders of the Nazi Party, the common bystanders, the military, the affluent, and the world. The Holocaust was a genocide: the mass murder of many minority groups, most predominantly the Jewish population, using concentration camps and other methods. Hitler was the leader of Germany from the early 1930’s to the early 1940’s, the man who started it all, backed by the leaders of his party, these men were the instigators. The common bystanders: the…