...Throughout the Holocaust and World War 2, Americans tried to remain completely unbiased. They attempted to stay out of everything that was occurring in Germany and other parts of the world. However, they ended up getting dragged into all of the chaos anyways. Even though most Americans weren’t too fond of Jews, they still didn’t believe that what the Nazis were doing was right. Due to this, they strived to help the Jews by boycotting goods from Germany, hoping it’d make Hitler stop his anti-semitic policies. After that, the situation in Germany was getting worse and in effort to stop that, Roosevelt put together an international conference in hopes that he could convince other nations to take in a large number of Jewish refugees in order to save their lives. However, none of the nations were willing to take in a...
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...World War II Events Do you know about WWII? What events do you know of? I will tell you the most important and war changing. There are many events that happened that you should know about. I Will talk and tell all about them. The most horrific events are the War, Holocaust,and the cruel Final Solution. The war was horrible. These are the World War II Events. The people of the War are important and a big part of what happened in WWII. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany when World War Two was just beginning. He was an excellent war tactic officer at the beginning of the WWII. He later lost most battles and ended up committing suicide. Adolf Hitler let him army kill 2 million Jews by the end of WWII. During WWII, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the United states of America when Pearl Harbor was bombed, in 1941. He died in April, of 1945. After his death Harry Truman took over office. Next, a very important event ,the Holocaust. It started in 1933. This was a time where Jews were targeted...
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...The Holocaust was a terrible time in history for many people during WWII. The US, British, and Canadian troops, know as the Allied troops, fought together and ended the war on a day called D-Day. D-Day was fought to end the six year war against Germany, but D-Day save many lives of Jewish people. D-Day was commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and other general from Britain and Canadian. D-Day started “on June 6, 1944, under the code name Operation "Overlord," US, British, and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on the English Channel coast east of Cherbourg and west of Le Havre,” ( www.ushmm.org 25 April, 2017). More than 13.000 Allied troops landed on five beaches in Normandy, and 23,000 paratroopers landed...
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...The book night is about a boy who was 13 named Elie Wiesel who him and his father were transferred from camp to camp by the green police. In these camps these two men were beaten elie’s father was eventually to weak to go on. Elie was to help his father survive and get strength to be able to continue . Elie’s father ended up too weak and died and Elie was to survive on his own at the final concentration camp he was transferred to . This is an example of what people went through in the holocaust .There are many causes to the holocaust , some causes are Hitler becoming chancellor, germany great depression , and Germany's world war one loss . The first cause of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler becoming chancellor .According to the website,...
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...Final Paper The Holocaust September 1st, 1939 marks the day in which the Holocaust began, a day we should never forget. Hitler had dreams to purify Germany and deem the Aryan race supreme however, he did not succeed. The strength and will power of the Jewish people to survive these unbearable times must be remembered for many generations to come. We must remember and teach about the incredible people who survived and give tribute to those who perished through documentation of the Holocaust, the community aspects, representation and religion of the Holocaust. Documentation of the Holocaust is very critical in teaching the future generations. Soon, all the survivors will be gone and it will be in the hands of our generation to tell the stories of the Holocaust. Several books and movies have been produced in memory of the Holocaust such as the Yizkor books. About “1,300 books have been published since the end of WWII”(Dr. Neil Jacobs) and they are great outlets of telling the stories of specific towns. For example, my Yizkor book project was on the city Dzialoszyce which was a thriving community in Poland. This book explains aspects of the town in the form of four main sections; “The Town and Its Residents Before World War I, Between Two World Wars, Customs and Traditions and The Holocaust” (Moshe Rozneck). In Dzialoszyce, societies were an integral part of everyday life in order to form a more communal lifestyle among the citizens. Another outlet of documentation was...
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...The Greek origin of holocaust is “sacrifice by fire.” It is no surprise that this is how the Germans killed the Jews. Germans believed they were racially superior to the Jews, so it seemed fit to kill off the “aliens.” Over eleven, including six million Jews were killed during this time of chaos and confusion. During the time of the Holocaust the Germans also targeted Roma Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples . Hitler, the German leader wasn’t messing around, others were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, including Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Wittness, and homosexuals. First, the Holocaust is significant because it is an example how extreme racism can get, and what we can do to prevent something...
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...The Holocaust Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, to hear the sounds of screaming and thrashing. You look out your window to see Nazis rummaging down the streets taking every Jew in sight. This exact event occurred on the Night of the Broken Glass. Jews lost everything that day and they were sent off to concentration camps (Holocaust). The Holocaust ripped families and lives apart. Where lived a family of six now was an empty home, a lost and lonely casualty of the war. The Nazis treated the Jew’s horribly, although the Liberators of the Holocaust saved the Jews. History of concentration camps through the Holocaust shows how the deadly technology changed. At first concentration camps were made for captives of the...
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the...
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...It all started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. Adolf Hitler was a very strong minded individual that liked everything to go his way, and for what he believed in. Germany was already a very racial country, and judged people strongly on their religious beliefs, and their political communities. The Nazis, also known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews. When Hitler first gained power, he formed an advanced police and military force to smother anyone who criticized his authority. With this force, Hitler developed the first concentration camp, Dachau. A concentration camp was used to work and starve prisoners to death. Later Dachau became a huge concentration camp to exterminate Jews. Hitler made life miserable for Jews. On April of 1933, the Nazis initiated by boycotting all Jewish ran businesses. The Nuremberg Laws issued in September of 1935, made it so Jews were excluded from most public life. The law included exposing the German Jews of their citizenship, and outlawed marriages and extramarital...
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...The Holocaust was a mass extermination of Jews fueled by Hitler’s anti-Semitist policy, as he thought Jews were to blame for the war. He had taken it out on Jews before, but this was what he called the “final solution”: getting rid of all jews as revenge for the war and making the perfect Aryan race. The Holocaust was a hate-powered rampage that is still remembered today for all of the destruction it caused. Anti-semitism started when Hitler came to power after World War I. Hitler had made it that Jews were in essence, nonpersons. They were forced to wear a yellow star of David that identified them as such. Anti-semitism was promoted when Hitler came to power because he thought Jews were to blame for the war. The jews were looked down upon by other Germans because of their leader igniting anti-Semitism and sometimes attacked them, like Kristallnacht. However, the Jews continued to resist....
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...“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy,” said Simon Wiesenthal. “After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” Mr. Wiesenthal was just one of the survivors from the brutal Holocaust who will forever remember the worst time of his life. How he was torn away from his family and was used as a slave for the Nazis. Yet he was still able to have sympathy and think about others. The Holocaust had a significant impact on America by giving lessons about genocides and preventing other genocides, how they punished war criminals after the...
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...German Big Buisness The Aryanization of the German businesses was discussed through Pater Hayes’s article “Profits and Persucution: Corporate Involvement in the Holocaust”. Hayes looked into why German businessmen were initially skeptical of Hitler and what factors played into the role of overcoming these suspicions. Hayes also looked into why German the initial attitude of the German business community changed toward the anti-Sematic campaigns. Neil Gregor through his article, “Big Business and Racial Barbarism: Labour at Daimler-Benz 1939-1945”, explored the exploitation of slave labor through the Daimler-Benz corporation. Gregor specifically went into how Daimler-Benz was able to get around the Jewish forced labor clash against the Final Solution. Gregor also looked heavily into Daimler-Benz’s treatment of Jewish workers reflect their acceptance of Nazi Ideology. Aryanization was the forced expulsion of “non-Aryans”, mostly Jews, from business life in Nazi Germany and the areas Nazi Germany controlled. German businessmen were initially skeptical of this plan from Hitler for many reasons. Less than 1 percent of the Jewish businesses were big enough to attract the money of the big firms. A lot of these Germans actually served with the Jews in previous wars with. Some of the business men hanged out with Jews in their personal life. Intermarriage was not uncommon between these groups. Hitler himself avoided talking anti-Semitism when addressing corporate issues. Many of the...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish Europeans during World War Two. The Nazi Party in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, exterminated about two thirds of the Jewish population residing in Europe. The Nazis placed the blame of all of Germany’s problems on the Jewish people. The Nazis referred to the holocaust as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” This paper will discuss the terrible things that happened throughout the holocaust by the Nazi party to the Jewish population. The holocaust was not the first plan by the Nazis to get rid of the Jewish race in Europe. Their first plan was to deport all of the Jews to German colonies such as Tanganyika and South West Africa (90 facts). Hitler was against these places because he argued that no place where “so much blood of heroic Germans hath spilled” should be made available as a residence for the worst enemies of the Germans. Madagascar became the most seriously discussed location for a Jewish relocation. Madagascar was perfect because it was a remote location that had unfavorable conditions so it would hasten deaths. This plan was approved by Hitler in 1938 and was carried out until the mass murder began in 1941(Facts about the holocaust). This first step was an important psychological step on the path to the mass murders of the Holocaust. Concentration camps were where the Nazis kept Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally disabled. These camps were founded...
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...Vladka Meed’s Life During the holocaust there were many bystanders and not as many upstanders but they are the heroes of the holocaust. The heroes of the holocaust are people such as Vladka Meed and helped as many people as they could. Vladka Meed risked her life by going on the other side of the wall in The Warsaw Ghetto to smuggle weapons and ammunition, she also helped hide some of the surviving Jews. Vladka Meed’s childhood was an ordinary childhood, but when she got older her life started to change when the Nazis invaded Poland. At birth her given name was Feigele Peltel. She and Benjamin Meed changed their names to go to America. Vladka Meed’s childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto. She was born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a factory...
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...who died at Auschwitz at the age of thirteen and how, although her life was taken at such a young age, her memory and spirit continue to live on today. Adapted from the book of the same title by Karen Levine, HANA’S SUITCASE explores the journey of teacher and children at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Center take to find out who Hana Brady is—all from a suitcase the Center received with Hana’s name, birth date, and the word waisenkind (orphan) written on it. The children at the Center are captivated by this suitcase, and the girl who once owned it, and they begin flooding Fumiko Ishioka, the Center’s Director, with question after question about Hana. Fumiko recognizes the importance of uncovering Hana’s story for her students. This tragic event cannot be summed up in numbers or facts— it affected individuals, young and old, who each had a story, families, and hopes and dreams. As Fumiko slowly but determinedly reveals Hana’s story, she discovers that Hana was sent to live in Theresienstadt, a Jewish ghetto, and eventually died at Auschwitz. However, as devastating as this is for Fumiko and the children at the Center to find out, they also learn that Hana had an older brother who survived the Holocaust and was now living with his family in Canada. Fumiko and the children write to George Brady, asking him to share...
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