...Final Solution, the escalated stages of the Nazi persecution of the Jewish and “undesirable” people increased to unbearable circumstances. More than six million Jews died during the Holocaust and “To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." (Wiesel XV) The Holocaust was a mass murdering of Jewish and other minorities by the German Nazi party regime, led by Hitler. These terrible and horrific actions included: the Nuremberg Laws 1935, Kristallen of 1938, Nazi work camps, forced residency in ghettos, and finally the death camps; all led up to and then continued during World War II. During the annual rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, new laws were institutionalized to help the radical theories in the Nazi ideology. These newly formed laws would become known as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and effected not only persons who believed in the Jewish religion, but also persons who had three or four Jewish grandparents. One defined as a Jew was excluded from: Reich citizenship, marrying or having sexual relationship with...
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...Name: Global II Date: The Holocaust Historical Information: According to the Holocaust Museum, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 (www.ushmm.org). The Task: View the United States Holocaust Museum web site to familiarize yourself with this horrific time period. As you browse, please click on and view the pictures, maps and graphics that accompany the text you read. Step by Step: 1. Type in www.ushmm.org 2. Scroll down and look to the left menu bar. 3. Under Education, click on “for students” 4. Scroll down and on the bottom, click on “The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students.” 5. Click on “View More.” 6. Click on the headings that match the headings on your web quest. Click on Jews in Pre War Germany 1. How did Hitler define a “Jew?” How did this alter the number of Jews in Germany? 2. ________% of Jews held German citizenship, totaling approximately _________________ people. _________________ percent of Jews in Germany lived in _______________________. The largest Jewish populated area was _______________________. Click on Anti-Semitism 1. Describe reasons for anti-Semitism in Europe. European leaders who wanted to establish colonies in Africa and Asia argued that whites were superior to other races and therefore had to spread and take over the "weaker"...
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...Holocaust Events Occurring From 1933-1939 Event #1: The Boycott of Jewish Businesses: On April 1, 1933, throughout all of Germany, a boycott on Jewish goods was carried out. Although it only lasted one day, it was minorly destructive, both physically and mentally. Nazi Storm Troopers stood in front of Jewish-owned shops, preventing anyone from entering and the Star of David was painted on the shops’ windows and doors. There were even signs posted that warned Germans not to buy from Jewish-owned stores or to not trust Jews at all (“The Boycott of Jewish Businesses” par. 3). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum writes that, before April 1, “Although German Jews continued to encounter some discrimination in their social lives and professional...
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...The Holocaust was a tragic event that struck the lives of many people personally. No one deserves being hated, even if you disagree with their beliefs, we are all still people. Hate is a very widespread and horrible thing. It was much more noticeable during the Holocaust and civil rights movement, but it can still happen now. We need to stand up and fight for what we believe in and help the ones being hurt. Kristallnacht was a horrible event that should have never occurred. Many Jewish people were affected by it. During this night, Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes. Sick children were taken out of hospitals and dragged over broken glass. Everyone was devastated, many people were left in broken homes. ”Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander” this was a quote by Yehuda Bauer. This means that you should stand up for what’s right and not just watch the bad things happen. If we just wait around and watch, history could repeat itself....
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...The Holocaust, a tragic and horrible event in history with about eleven million deaths. Of these eleven million, six million were Jewish. Racism played a significant role in the political and social events that led to the Holocaust because the Germans believed they were a superior race, Jewish people were denied many rights, and the Jews were victimized by the Germans. The Nazis began to combine racial theories and theories on evolution to come up with the idea that their race was superior to the Jews as well as other groups. This caused them to be obsessed with the idea of making the master race. This “Aryan Master Race” include people who were of pure aryan descent and those who were tall, fair-haired and light-eyed. Ultimately, Hitler’s...
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...This is a photo of Adolf Hitler. He was the cause of the Holocaust. He wanted to eliminate all non-superior races. This is a picture of a Jewish owned shop that was targeted in the “Night of the Broken Glass”. This was the beginning of sending Jews to concentration camps in mass numbers. This picture shows the Warsaw ghetto residents being rounded up by Nazi soldiers. Jews where at first sent to ghettos befor e the death camps were set up. Jewish men and women both old and young were lined up and sent into gas chambers at the death camps. These chambers were disguised as showers in order to prevent a revolt. This is a graph of the types of people who died in the Holocaust. The Jewish people account for over 40 percent of the deaths....
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...Simon Wiesenthal once said that, “The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy.” I drove up to the Holocaust Museum about five minutes after it opened on a Monday morning. The building was very quiet and there were only two people at the exhibit. I was directed by a security guard to pay at the front desk. The ladies behind the desk handed me a device I could use for an audio tour and showed me the first stop and how to use the audio guide. The exhibit was very small and only took up part of the first floor. The first part of the tour shows a timeline of the event before, during, and after the Holocaust, and the number of Jewish people killed during each year was represented by a concrete column. The exhibit really focuses on one specific day of the Holocaust when three different important events have occurred. The next part of the exhibit talks about three brave resistance fighters who freed over 200 people from a cattle car bound for a labor camp. The display showed pictures, and artifacts related to the event. Another part of the museum showed information about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The last event featured was the Bermuda conference. The last part of the exhibition was particularly moving and featured memorials to those either killed or were affected by the Holocaust. Historically, the negative view of the Jewish people by Germans began when the Nazi’s took over Germany in 1933. Hitler launched an all...
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...Kristallnacht was an event that had devastated the whole Jewish population and had created many struggles for the Jewish people. This event was also known as Night of Broken Glass when the Germans attacked the Jewish people’s home and business shops purposely. The Germans had planned to attack the Jewish Germans that night and had told the policemen to do it too. They had broke glass and many other of the Jewish people’s belongings as well and for the Jewish people, it was one of the most terrifying times in the Holocaust too. Multiple Jewish aspects were affected by Kristallnacht because the event had affected the Jewish people emotionally, physically, and in financial ways. One of the Jewish people’s aspect was their security or their safety. When Kristallnacht had occurred the Germans had been been sent out to destroy everything of the Jewish people’s belongings. When this occurred they had attacked every Jewish person and their home or their churches too. This had caused them to think they were safe because none of the German police protected them from when the Germans attacked them....
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...The Holocaust was a destruction on a mass scale, which was caused by a nuclear war. The Holocaust was also known as the Shoah. This was a genocide and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany killed six million Jews. Two ways in which the Holocaust could be attributed to economic causes would be through the great depression and exploitation. Listing the Great Depression as an economic cause, due to the mass killings and war. Many Jews were out of jobs once the war came to an end. Diseases spread throughout cities, which was another cause of deaths. There weren’t many white recruiters, Therefore the higher power had to recruit blacks, which caused some confrontation. Exploitation was an economic cause, due to Hitler’s plan to exploit Jews of Poland along...
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...Jared Livingston Grade 12 Period 3-4 February 11, 2014 American History The Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedy that left a mark of tragic and horror to all Jews. The tragedy began at January 30th, 1933 and ended at May 8th, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. Millions of people died during the Holocaust, some were killed by machine guns, gas chambers, getting burned, while others died due to starvation, abuse and diseases. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, was a heartless and uncaring man. He was born on April 20, 1889 in a small Austrian town of Braunau near Germany’s border. Hitler’s father Alios Hitler was a short-tempered, strict and brutal father. It is known that Alios would always beat Hitler when he was young. Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, was the opposite of Alios Hitler. She was very caring and loving to her son. When Hitler’s father died, Hitler dropped out of school at an early age because he lost his strong influence into keeping him at school. His mother supported him with this idea. Hitler loved and showed so much companionship to his mother more than his father. When she died at 1907, her death affected him far more deeply than the death of his father. He carried her picture wherever he went and, it is claimed that he had the photo in his hand when he died in 1945. Hitler and the Nazis were the masterminds of the Holocaust. Hitler had so much arrogance in him. He hated and envied the Jews. The Jews at...
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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 Imagine that you are walking into Auschwitz with a gun to your back for your first and final time. You have been plucked from your friends and family, and you are now being choked by the Almond-like odor of the pesticide Zyklon-B. This is how millions of people died in an event known as the Holocaust. The inhumane way that people were killed and how Hitler came to power will never be forgotten. First, Hitler rose to power after slowly climbing up the ladder to the top. Hitler was born in 1889, in Austria. He fought in the German army and he blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat in World War 1 (History.com staff,2009). After the war ended, he joined the Socialist German Worker’s Party, or know to others as Nazis (History.com staff,2009). Hitler was imprisoned for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch (History.com staff,2009). The Beer Hall...
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...as well as providing the knowledge of the past, they contain a variety of interesting facts. In a couple of weeks ago, all of my friends and I attended an event called Music in the Holocaust in BVIS Royal City. I was so glad that I went there because otherwise we’d have missed all the wonderful songs. The first song was “Our town is burning” by Mordecai Gebirtig (1877- unknown). It was told that Gebirtig wrote “Our Town is Burning” in response to a 1936 pogrom in the Polish town of Przytyk. The song is written to be heard as an urgent calls to action (“Don't stand there, brothers, douse the fire!”). From my perspective, the song is very meaningful and it makes people have sympathy for the Jewish. There were five songs in total but the one I like the most was “A child of our time” by Michael Tippett (1905 – 1997). This English composer conceived “A Child of Our Time” after he learned of the November 1938 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) pogrom in Germany and Austria. Wishing to communicate a universal message of tolerance, Tippet failed to deliver the reference to the current events in his lyric. Furthermore, during the song, we got the chance to sing along with the music performer which was amazing. If you want to go to attend this event, it will be held on the Holocaust Remembrance Day 27th of January. I’d certainly recommend taking the time to go and hear it for yourself. And by the way, it’s free!...
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...Holocaust Essay The Holocaust is one of the worst tragedies in our history. Millions of people had died and thousands were left with mental or physical disabilities. All of this was simply because of intolerance and hatred towards Jews and other “minorities” The Holocaust is a very significant part of our history. It gave us an example of how prejudice our society can be. Today we are taught that we shouldn’t discriminate other people based on their religion, race or gender. Most countries don’t have dictators anymore, but instead give the power to their people. Discrimination, prejudice and racism are often frowned upon these days. Those are just a few examples on how the Holocaust has really affected us in ways that we haven't really given...
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...Imagine getting up every morning knowing you would be facing your worst fear, such as being judged on the color of your skin. It’s as if someone was afraid of heights and knew they would be standing on a tall building everyday. Facing your fears is scary. But being pressured into it is even scarier. Being forced into doing something could be harmful or even dangerous to yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was the best option....
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