INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCAUST * Related Articles * Related Links * Comments * How to cite this article Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928. — US Holocaust Memorial Museum * VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS * VIEW PERSONAL HISTORIES * VIEW ARTIFACTS * VIEW MAPS * VIEW HISTORICAL FILM FOOTAGE The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder
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Poverty and Its Effect on Children Samuel Meraz SOC100-146 Prof. Steward July 27, 2014 Poverty and its effect on children We think of poverty, and our first thoughts are lower income, crime, and living conditions. We think of areas of our cities and towns that we all try to avoid and the crime that these areas are infamous for. But, do we ever think of the children that live in poverty? How about the effects of growing up in poverty? Put yourself in their shoes, think about how it would affect
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and others targeted by the Nazis, had been killed in the Holocaust. The Jewish dead numbered more than 5 million: about 3 million in killing centers and other camps, 1.4 million in shooting operations, and more than 600,000 in Polish ghettos. Who were the men that carried out these terrible murders? One would think them to be savage killers specially selected for their history of brutality and violence. But, in fact, these men were typically normal middle-aged business men
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Malcolm X Malcolm X in my eyes can be one of the most inspiring human in anyone’s life. When he was young he was adventurous and did not stay tied down to one city or town. He was born in May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. The family had soon moved to Lansing, Michigan where Malcolm spent most of his childhood. Soon after Malcolm dropped out of junior high, his sister Ella opened an opportunity for him to leave Lansing and go to Roxbury, Boston. Ella was a strong independent black woman, who supported
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The Holocaust What is Genocide? Ushmm.org says genocide is a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group. In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder, including the destruction of the European Jews. He formed the word "genocide" by combining geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe, with -cide, derived from the Latin word
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Holocaust The Holocaust was a major event in our history that eliminated about eleven million people. These people were killed by the Nazis that resided in Germany during World War II. Hitler was the leader of the Nazis. He felt that the Nazis were superior to the lower classes, such as the Jews, Gypsies, disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Communists, and Socialists. There were many groups that were persecuted by the Nazis but the Jews were the group that the Nazis targeted the most. The
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boastful and party oriented. The climate of the country was the feeling the leadership was attacking the low income communities. The Republican Party had such a delusional perception of the low income community. True drugs were being dealt daily in the ghetto. Not everyone agreed about who was doing the dealing, the government or local criminals with little resources to obtain the imported cocaine. In the mist of this mistrust and hopelessness came a rap group who was willing to take on the establishment
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location. Young people used break dancing to battle; to be known by people in the streets. Although people didn’t consider break dancing as a professional dance; youth thought differently. When people saw the break dancer’s dance, they thought only the ghetto kids do those types of dances. People said break dancing belonged in the streets and not in the professional dancing industry. They considered break dancing as “riots” between African Americans and Hispanics teenagers. Many of the break dancers and
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What is a job of a nurse? They are supposed help and take care of people that are sick or need assistance. What happens when you are not allowed to or banned from helping the people? In the Holocaust the German nurses were not allowed to help Jewish kids. Although they weren’t able to help this one brave and caring German nurse went out of her way to be a hero. Irena Sendler is a nurse who was in a group called the “Resistance Movement”. She was in organizations that dealt with the Jews and she would
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the Germans in secondary out groups. This affected their lives tremendously because they were forced into their roles and made to be slaves and were killed. The structured changed for the Jewish people, they were taken from their homes and sent to ghettos, forced to work in
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