The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a brutal genocide, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party from Germany killed, slaughtered and much worse, about 6 million Jewish people. The Holocaust began gradually after the invasion of Poland in 1939. Germans established ghettos in many different Polish cities, where Jews were imprisoned. This is the Holocaust started. Starting early, allies started to take over the German camps. Many more camps were taken over, this was slowly removing Hitler’s power. The biggest camp,…

I feel it would be a life-changing event hearing about what these people have gone through, and how hard they struggled to survive. My experience with studying the history of the Holocaust has been mostly on my own, but I would be very interested in learning more about European History, specifically about the Holocaust. I have read many books about it and also first-hand accounts such as The Diary of Anne Frank. I feel we need to learn about our history, especially genocides, to prevent them…

murder known as a genocide. A genocide is a mass murder directed towards a certain group of people based on hatred, prejudice and clashing ideologies. When Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party became the chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Holocaust commenced. The belief that started this genocide was that the Germans, or Aryans, were superior to the Jews. In the Cambodian Genocide,…

especially the Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was not an accident in history. “The Holocaust occurred because people of authority legalized discrimination and fostered an environment of prejudice, racism, hatred, social division, inequality, and murder.”(William Benedict III 2005) The Holocaust was not just a Jewish issue, but also an issue for Poles, Soviet of POWs and others. However, it seems that Jews are the most pathetic victims. During the Holocaust, the Jews’ rights of life,…

Children of the Holocaust “... Having to wear the yellow star was the moment when deep fear and misery finally took hold.” ( Beatrice Muchman, Jewish child, Belgium page 2 Life in the Shadows ) World War II began in the September of 1939 and ended in the May of 1945, over these six years over 1.5 million children were put to death by the Germans because they were Jewish. Do you know what happened to the children during the holocaust? Children were forced to wear the yellow Star of David on all…

The Holocaust Genocide took place when Adolf Hitler came to power and decided that he was going to blame everything relating to their economic troubles, on the Jews. Hitler had an army of people under his control known as the “Nazi Party” that were willing to do anything he wished, such as forcing the Jews that resisted to go to the camps. The camps that they were placed in were referred to as “Concentration Camps.” In these camps the Jews were forced to work and if there was any resistance as…

“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”(ushmm.org). The Holocausts was the world’s most inhumane massacre of Jews by the German Nazis. Adolf Hitler, who firmly believed that Germans were “racially superior”, was supreme power of Europe, due to his proclamation of himself as the Fuhrer. He was a very anti-Semitic man: always plotting atrocious schemes of eradicating the Jews. He…

Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? Maybe, it was you heard about it through the Dairy of Anne Franke. It is a brilliant novel informing you on the horrible things that happened during the Holocaust. During the holocaust, over six million Jews were killed. They were murdered by the Nazi’s and the infamous Hitler himself. Adolf Hitler was the leader of these people murdering innocent people, who only was crime was being Jewish. Since when is a religion a crime? These people were murdered for no…

The Holocaust is one of the most powerful words in history. It represents a time where millions of innocent, ordinary people, family members, children, and more were killed simply for the fact that they were Jewish. In the book, “The Holocaust: Great Disasters, Reforms, and Ramifications”, the rise and fall of Hitler and the Third Reich is described in great detail. The author was Judy L. Hasday, beside from a short introductory essay by Jill McCaffrey, who was born in Pennsylvania, and…

stripped away from you. Many of us day to day people wouldn’t be able to comprehend having such a troublesome life, but Anne Frank did. Anne Frank took a role in WWII (specifically the Holocaust) by giving us an insight of the lives of the Jewish during the holocaust. Many of the information that we know today about the Holocaust came from her diary. Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929. Her parents are Edith and Otto Frank. Then in less than four years down the road,…