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The Holocaust was a period of time where Hitler was the ruler of the Nazis soldiers and took over Germany and started to kill Jews because he hated them and thought they were useless. The time period that the Holocaust happen was in January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 in Germany and Western Europe. Jewish die and during that time six million Jews died and five million other die in the Holocaust. During that time they chose Hitler to rule and it was his fault the Holocaust started. Members of the…

Oskar Schindler’s process of saving those Jews wasn’t an easy task. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides of all time. “Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire’” (www.ushmm.org). Which meant that people had to sacrifice by getting burnt and that’s what Adolf Hitler did during the massacre. It was the cause of the death of six million Jewish People. “Before the Second World War, population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left” (www…

Frank said of her, "We are never far from Miep's thoughts." And indeed, Miep and her husband reserved August 4 as a special day of memory. Miep received many awards late in life, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Yad Vashem Medal and the Wallenberg Medal.…

Plan of investigation In my investigation I will be looking at to what extent did the holocaust affect the survivors both mentally and physically upon return home from the concentration camps. I will be looking at books both present and from the time period that talk about how they felt and what happened when they got home. I will also surf the internet and find interviews with survivors look for articles and news papers from the time in order to get a better idea of what was going on for the…

Oskar Schindler was a war hero who saved many Jews during the Holocaust, giving many of them a second chance at life. Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, which is in present-day Czech Republic. He started out as part of the Nazi party. In 1939 him and his family traveled to Krakow and got involved in the black market. He opened a factory that made German war goods and employed Polish Jews. these weren't his intentions at first but many jews were saved from concentration camps.…

Schindler’s List takes place in the Polish city of Krakow and many of the German-owned enamelware factories that Schindler used throughout Western Poland and Germany. The movie took place in the 1940s when WWII was dominating Europe and the Nazis had total control of most of the continent, Poland was part of this massive facist dictatorship. The movie begins at the time when the Nazis began forcing the Polish Jews to move into ghettos. Oskar Schindler, a man who was a member of the Nazi party,…

“Good Morning San Francisco” decided to dedicate a day to Simon Wiesenthal's book, The Sunflower. Wiesenthal decides to pose a question when he was placed in a room with a dying SS man. The SS man, Karl, asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness of what he had done. Wiesenthal’s choice was silence, but as the story continues and his struggle goes on of being haunted by this man he poses a question. Should Karl the dying SS man be forgiven for the murders he has committed? Tanner: Good morning San…

Pioneering studies by scholars such a Raul Hilberg and Leni Yahil in the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, show that by the 1960s Holocaust literature was rather substantial, albeit secularised as Polish, Israeli and Jewish niche history. The lack of significance suggests that there was a void in mainstream literature of the Holocaust…

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a play, which is a direct parallel to what happened during the Holocaust to the Jews. In these two situations certain individuals become very influential and powerful through the means of scapegoating numerous people. Both of the leaders in these tragedies are commonly described as self-seeking, for their aspiration to blatantly accuse and torment others. While their intentions were different, there are many social similarities that teach us what can transpire…

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler rose to power as the head of the right-wing National Socialist German Workers Party (called "the Nazi Party" for short). His election came with the hope that he would be able to lead Germany out of its grave political and economic crisis. Of the many policies that Hitler enacted once in power many of them were directed toward limiting individual freedoms such as freedom of press, speech, and assembly. While limited rights on a national scale were the beginning…