The Crucible vs. The Holocaust The Crucible play and The Holocaust have many similarities and hardly any differences. Both events are very manipulative. During the play, Abigail Williams convinced the entire town that certain people were practicing witchcraft. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler convinced many people in Germany that the world would be a much happier place without the presence of Jews. The Holocaust is an event where Hitler came to power in Germany. It began in 1933. An estimate of 11 millions Jews were killed. Nearly 1.1 million children were murdered for numerous of reasons. During The Holocaust, Jews couldn’t go to parks, they got fired from their jobs, Jewish doctors had to work with other Jewish people only, Jews were