Research Paper 1 The Holocaust In this paper, I will be presenting many facts that show what the Holocaust is and why it occurred. The Holocaust was an organized, persecution, and murder of approximately six million Jewish people including 1.5 million Jewish children. The Holocaust took place in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators that happened
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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
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Psychological Effects of the Holocaust In February of 1933, the Nazi Party ruthlessly started to persecute Jews simply because they were Jews. Under the Nazi Party, Jews were "worthless", and considered "animals". As time went on in the Holocaust, the physiological impact of the Nazi hatred demoralized the Jews. Jews were shot as target practice, starved (mostly to death), and forced to kill their own kind to save themselves; it was just about one's own survival- no one else mattered
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can have various different outcomes. It impacts everyone in a different way, but these effects can be characterized as positive, negative, and neutral. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader witnesses the events that took place during the holocaust through the eyes of the author. Wiesel explains all of his experiences in great detail, painting a very vivid picture of the occurrences around him. Through reading this novel and reading the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech at the end, a main
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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
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The Holocaust was an act of genocide that claimed the lives of many innocent people in many cruel ways. The victims’ fates were chosen by Nazi doctors through a process called selection. The Schutzstaffel (SS men) would take victims from their homes and families and put them into concentration camps where they would find out if they were to live or die. There were two main options in the concentration camps: labor or gas chamber. If the fate of the prisoner wasn’t labor or the gas chamber then
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to charge their phone before they leave. Conversely the people who were in the Holocaust served over 10 life times of misfortune throughout their time in concentration camps. Their misfortune ranged from being evicted from their homes to having to see family members die in front of their eyes, and all of this happened because the Nazis feared that their religion would harm their racial superiority. The Nazi Holocaust impacted the world in a horrible way and if America didn't help what would’ve happened
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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
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In the 1940’s, the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, murdered thousands of men, women, and children of the Jewish religion or Gypsy lifestyle. During the Holocaust, the Germans murdered any individual that did not fit into Hitler’s purified race. This “cleansing” of the German race began with the sterilization program. After Hitler reaped the successes of the sterilization program, he advanced to his euthanasia program. Hitler did not only euthanize Jews and Gypsies, he also executed people with disabilities
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because an event and emotions were all captured without their being any words in the film. It was only about 15 minutes. But in the film, there is an ambulance. A group of children and a guard with a dog that kept barking. A little child goes up to the dog and is frightened by the dog. There was also a man with these children. Then someone, (a man) is seen covering the exhaust pipes of the ambulance. This part really touched me because I know that when exhaust fumes are covered, they are trapped
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