...Fighting back. To fight back means, “To retaliate when there is an offense. Either spiritually, emotionally or physically. The “fight” during the holocaust was crucial to the Jews humanity. During World War II, Hitler was elected having the idea for mass murder of Jews. The holocaust is responsible for the death of over 6 million Jews, victims of over 17 million people. The ghettos were a great example. The conditions in these ghettos were unbearable for human conception. They were deprived of food, money and spiritual beliefs. Not to mention unreasonable deaths. During the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity For example, the Jews turned to weaponry as a form of armed resistance. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was a magnificent example of armed resistance. “Jews from Warsaw on January 18, 1943. A group of Jewish fighters, armed with pistols, infiltrated a column of Jews being forced to the Umschlagplatz (transfer point) and, at a prearranged signal, broke ranks and fought their German escorts. Most of these Jewish fighters died in the battle, but the attack sufficiently disoriented the Germans to allow the Jews arranged in columns at the Umschlagplatz a chance to disperse.” (“Warsaw Ghetto”). Jews fought back with...
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...March 2012 Life during the Holocaust: Life in the ghettos, Dr. Mengele’s medical care, and food in the camps Genocide during WWII was unbelievably cruel and awful. The Holocaust was sure to be remembered from this time period and have permanently engraved horrible memories into those who survived. During the Holocaust many victims suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full liquidation...
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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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...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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...According to The United States Holocaust Museum Memorial, the Holocaust was the systematic, state sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi regimes and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (ushmm.org). To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years” (ushmm.org). Nazis deported more than a million...
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...Roughly over 200,000 Jews died in the Jewish Ghettos. Jewish Ghettos were a harsh environment to live because of overcrowding, hunger, disease and the cold weather. However, the Jews still found ways to help each other survive these horrible conditions. Conditions in the Jewish Ghettos weren’t that great. One reason is the Jewish residents were very packed and crammed together. For example, the article “Ghettos” states that “In Warsaw, more than 400000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles.” This shows that Jews were crowded and packed into a small area, with no space or anywhere to be free. Another reason that the conditions weren’t liveable in the Jewish Ghettos is they experienced severe hunger. For example, the article “Life in the Ghettos.” states that “Children often lived on the paths of the ghettos, begging for bits of bread and many starved to death.” This shows that Jews barely had enough food to live on which resulted in severe starvation and even death. In conclusion, Jews experienced harsh and unlivable conditions throughout their life in the ghettos. Jews died in unforgettable ways in the ghettos. One way the Jews died was from disease. For...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust is a word of greek between 1933 and 1945 when jews and members of other groups were murdered by the nazi’s In the holocaust six million or more jews were killed by adolf hitler's nazi regime and its collaborators. Five million non-jewish victims of nazi mass murders, bringing the total of eleven million The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's witnesses, and homosexuals. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered. In the early years of the nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration cmaps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews...
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...Dehumanization: Essential for the attempt to execute a population The Holocaust was one of the most devastating events leading up to World War II, was the Holocaust, which millions of people were tortured and murdered by the Nazis. Hitler was an anti-Semitic political leader of the Nazi regime, who believed that the Jewish “race” contaminated the Aryan population, and therefore needed to be eliminated. The Nuremberg Laws were laws that excluded Jews and non-Aryans from German citizenship as well as their natural rights. In addition, “Jewishness” was defined in racial terms. One strategy that allowed the Nazis to carry out the Holocaust was their disregard for non-Germans, treating them as less than human. Dehumanization is considered...
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...educated about the Holocaust and are aware of the millions of people whose lives have been taken by mass genocide and hate. However, what many people do not know about is the people who have made an effort to stand up against oppression during these tragic times. During the second World War, Nazis in Europe had come up with a system where Jews and other minorities would be hunted down and isolated from the outside world. Eventually the lives of these marginalized people would be taken rapidly with the assistance of concentration camps. Jews stood up against this in many different forms of armed and unarmed resistance in order to protect their beliefs. During the Holocaust, both armed and unarmed resistance was used in order to protect Jewish beliefs and their honor....
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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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...The Tragedies of the Trail of Tears and the Holocaust The U.S government stole millions of dollars and millions of acres of land from the native americans. Likewise, the Nazi Regime stole the same from helpless Jewish people who were forced to live in ghettos. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning. When the white settlers first came to America they encountered the Native Americans they thought they were savages, and that they were dumb and could easily steal from them. The white settlers moved the Native Americans to oklahoma and in this process they stole from them and killed their livestock. They also killed them and stole their homes while they made the Native Americans walk all the from their homes to Oklahoma. This is very similar...
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...everyday for years. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, Elie talks about how he and other people were treated. During the Holocaust, Jewish prisoners were dehumanized by being stripped of their identity, being treated cruelly, and having their homes, family, and friends taken away from them. First, Jews were dehumanized during the Holocaust by being stripped of their identity. Before leaving the ghetto, the Jews were told that they could bring a small bag with their personal belongings. However, once they got off the wagon at the concentration camp, they were forced to leave all their belongings on the wagon. Then, they were forced to strip down to complete nakedness and had to all wear the same clothing. They also had to get call the hair on their bodies shaved off. They even all lost their names, and their identity was known as numbers. A-7713 was Elie Wiesel’s number. They were also put on a strict schedule. They woke up at dawn, and there was some nights where they could have been shot for not being in their block at the right time. Also, when leaving for the last concentration camp, they had to run for hours, and those who stopped were shot there on the spot. While running, they were called names by...
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...The Holocaust is a horrifying subject that started in the early 1940’s and mid-WWII. The Holocaust was formed by Adolf Hitler (Allen 5). He directed a team of people called Nazis to build the concentration camps (Allen 5). The Nazis killed many people during the Holocaust including Jewish men, women, and children. It all started with one camp called Auschwitz where many people died including author and holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel’s family. The Holocaust is also a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being sent to live in ghettos and eventually being deported to concentration camps where they were systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors. The Nazis forced Jews into the ghettos to separate them from the rest of the population (“Ushmm Ghettos”). Adolf Hitler was in charge at the time and created three different types of ghettos for different type of treatments and torture (“Ushmm Ghettos”). The three types were closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The closed ghettos were isolated and closed off. The prisoners there had no freedom, starved, and...
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...The Holocaust 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...
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