“Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin, meaning “complete burning, sacrifice by fire.” When one hears the word, “Holocaust”, one automatically think of the Jewish exploitation that occurred in 1933-1945. The idea of the Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler became a dictator. He believed that the Jews were going to contaminate his idea of the “perfect race” so he decided to get rid of their population. The Holocaust was a traumatic experience where about 6 million Jews. The Nazis both took away and broke the spirit of the Jews by separating them from the world, denying their religion and anything that would define them as a Jew, controlling their rights and by treating them like non-humans.
The main goal of the Holocaust was to get rid of all Jews to save the world from a Jewish domination. In order to do this, Germans would have to wipe out the Jewish population in every location that had a mass amount of Jews. Ghettos were created to hold a large amount of Jews that would separate them from the Germans and make it easier to transport them to death camps where they would be killed. In the ghettos, Jews were “face-to-face” with death through starvation, slave labor and darkness. They were isolated with their own and were prohibited to even look out the window that faced the other side of town where Germans reside. This interfered with the spirit of the Jews because they were being isolated from things like the store, the clothing shop, their German neighbors/friends and they would have to give away what they had everyday to Germans that controlled random house checkings. They now had to live and be surrounded with their own kind which takes away the fun of learning about their background, since they are all Jews, and they couldn’t l...
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...d to follow all German orders making it easier to kill them. Also the breakdown of the Jews spirit was another technique of death because without hope one has nothing to hold on to and would prefer the fastest way out of misery to end the pain, which would be instant death. The understanding of the Holocaust is important today because it helps us understand how dangerous it is for one person to have complete power over everything that could result in the cruelty of one person to another trying to wipe out an entire population based on dislike.
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The Holocaust was the time period when Adolf Hitler was in control of the territory of Germany and wanted the extinction of the Jews. The Holocaust was a very vigorous on the Jews because they were treated the worst and had the worst living conditions. The Holocaust derived the Jews of their wealth, and little bit of humanity that they held dear to themselves. Adolf Hitler established laws to make it basically illegal to be a Jew in Germany. Since Adolf Hitler was in power he commanded that all Jews properties and valuables be taken. For example, in the book “Maus” it states, “He had to sell his business to a German and run out from the country without even the money.”(
At the start of Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror, no one would have been able to foresee what eventually led to the genocide of approximately six million Jews. However, steps can be traced to see how the Holocaust occurred. One of those steps would be the implementation of the ghetto system in Poland. This system allowed for Jews to be placed in overcrowded areas while Nazi officials figured out what to do with them permanently. The ghettos started out as a temporary solution that eventually became a dehumanizing method that allowed mass relocation into overcrowded areas where starvation and privation thrived. Also, Nazi officials allowed for corrupt Jewish governments that created an atmosphere of mistrust within its walls. Together, this allowed
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The Holocaust or the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew meaning ‘the day of the Holocaust and heroism’ refers to the period of time from approximately January 30,1933, when Adolf Hitler became the legal official of Germany, to May 8,1945. After the war was over in Europe, the Jews in Europe were being forced to endure the horrifying persecution that ultimately led to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews with about 1.5 million of them being children as well as the demolition of 5,000 Jewish communities.
When people first hear about the Holocaust, they are so surprised to hear how horrible and sick the whole time period was for Jews. Everyone is really shocked to know that so many horrible and hateful things could be done. The idea that countries were taken over, families and children were torn apart and people were tortured and murdered, is unbelievable. Propaganda and psychological conditioning played a large role in the genocide and overall indifference towards Jews during the holocaust. Not only was Hitler and his troops able to control armies, but he was able to influence other countries through precise planning and strategic moves.
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A holocaust is defined as a disaster that results with the tremendous loss of human life. History, however, generally identifies the Holocaust to be the series of events that occurred in the years before and during World War II. The Holocaust started in 1933 with the persecuting and terrorizing of Jews by the Nazi Party, and ended in 1945 with the murder of millions of helpless Jews by the Nazi war-machine. "The Holocaust has become a symbol of brutality and of one people's inhumanity to another." (Resnick p. 11)
...he human depravity one can imagine. Even though Genocide did not begin with the Holocaust, Germany and Adolf Hitlers’ heartless desire for “Aryanization” came at the high cost of human violence, suffering and humiliation towards the Jewish race. These warning signs during the Holocaust, such as Anti-Semitism, Hitler Youth, Racial profiling, the Ghettos, Lodz, Crystal Night, Pogroms, and Deportation unraveled too late for the world to figure out what was going on and help prevent the horrors that came to pass. The lessons learned from all of this provide a better understanding of all the scars genocide leaves behind past and present. In spite the ongoing research in all of these areas today, we continue to learn new details and accounts. By exploring the various warning signs that pointed toward genocide, valuable knowledge was gained on how not to let it happen again.
uring the holocaust, certain districts of cities and towns were set aside for the Jews. These districts were usually the poorest and dilapidated sections of town. They were called Ghettos. Jews were coerced to live in these ghettos by law.
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The Holocaust was a horrible time for everyone involved, but for the Jews it was the worst. The Jews no longer had names they became numbers. Also they would fight and the S.S. would watch and enjoy. They lost all personal items, then forced to look and dress the same. This was an extremely painful and agonizing process to dehumanize the Jews. Which made it easier to take control of the Jews and get rid of them.
In conclusion the Holocaust was a horrible thing. It created a world war that could only be stopped by someone winning. The Jews and other prisoners got caught in the crossfire of this world war. The Jewish people and many other prisoners that were in the camps face starvation, selection, transport, and many other
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro