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    The Holocaust was one of the most sadistic and inhumane episodes in world history. Of all the atrocious actions that occurred during the war, perhaps the most appalling was the medical experiments conducted by the Nazis. From 1933 to 1945 at least seventy pseudo-medical projects were performed on at least 7,000 human beings against their will (“Medical Experiments.”) These victims, almost all Jews and a few Gypsys, suffered unspeakable pain, mutilation, permanent disability, infertility, and in…

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    Holocaust Hiding Methods

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    During the Holocaust children had slim chances of survival unless someone stepped in to help hide or disguise them and increase their chances of survival. Organizations were even set up to help increase the chance of a child not having to experience the atrocities of a death camp. Obstacles were often encountered that had to be overcome. In order to overcome some of these obstacles, major adjustments would sometimes have to be made to their already altered lifestyles. Going into hiding could…

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    I chose fear and darkness as my concept for this writing. It may be obvious that fear and darkness play a huge role in the holocaust. Many people feared of being murdered or having one of their loved ones killed. In the first chapter (beadle guy), he was a happy man, but when he saw the atrocities being committed by the Nazi’s his minded was filled with fear and later on, this fear turned to a darkness that took away his sanity. Some examples of fear and darkness in the book are “His very…

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    Jeannine Burk Holocaust

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    During the holocaust, Jeannine Burk was one of the few survivors. She hid in a woman’s house for three years. Before all this happen, Jeannine’s neighbors snitched on her family and unfortunately, they took her dad. But they did not take her mother, her sister and Jeannine because her sister had osteomyelitis. The Gestapo's said they would come later for them, and a little while after her mother was able to make a call for the hospital. Because of the stereotype of how a Jew looked, they did not…

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    Holocaust Daily Life

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    torture daily. The unlucky prisoners would suffer from both this mental and physical abuse. The two main groups where the adults compared to the children, who had different lives within their age group as well. The children that lived during the holocaust had hard lives that were, in most cases, doomed to have short. “More than 1.5 million children from across Europe were murdered under the Nazi regime.”(projetaladin) The children in general were killed as soon as they entered the camp though…

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    during this tragic holocaust. It started in January,30 1933-May 8, 1945. The biggest concentration camp was called Auschwitz. The Holocaust had many causes and effects, some of these were Millions of Jews died, Jews economy was messed up, concentration camps were disgusting and starved and dehydrated Jewish people. The first effect of the holocaust is that six million Jewish people died including men, women , and children/infants. I know this because the website about the holocaust museum…

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    Holocaust Museum Paper Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI The Holocaust was perhaps the most saddening and savage accomplishment of the human race. Derived from the Greek words holos and kaustos, meaning “whole burnt”, the Holocaust is more formally known as the systematic genocide of almost six million Jews and five million non-Jewish victims by German Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most prominent of the many concentration camps during the Nazi…

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    The topic of Holocaust provokes many questions, such as “Why did Hitler do this?” and “What did the Jews do to get this punishment?” Another bothersome question that is often inquired is “Did the Holocaust really happen?” This essay will offer the facts such as physical evidence and artifacts, while also arguing There are a definite amount of facts that you could prove the Holocaust really occurred. A good reason to believe are the witnesses. According the website www.mchekc.org it says…

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    ocation and time The Holocaust took place in 21 countries of Europe. The countries were occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II and the Nazis started occupying its’ border countries such as Poland and Denmark before spreading throughout Europe. It started when Hitler became chancellor of Germany, on January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945, when it officially ended. The genocide and mass killing began a few years after Hitler became the chancellor of Germany, in 1941, where the Jewish were…

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    his views. The events that took place under his control were horrendous; the worst being the Holocaust, killing an estimated 11 million people. As time goes on, some people are developing the belief that the Holocaust didn’t actually happen, it was a myth made up by Hitler’s opposition, used as a tactic to suffice his fall down from power. This small group of people are generally known as simply Holocaust Deniers but such believers name themselves ‘revisionism’. Throughout this essay I will…

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