Every Jewish survivor of the Holocaust usually has an amazing story to tell. Courage‚ discretion‚ and cunning were rarely enough. Every survivor’s history has elements of unexpected acts of kindness and favorable circumstances. Two such survival stories are in the films The Pianist and Europa Europa. The Pianist is a film about how Wladysaw Szpilman survived the German deportations of Jews to the extermination camps and how he lived in hiding outside the ghetto‚ in a predominantly German area. Europa
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The Holocaust also known as Shoah’‚ was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II‚ a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany‚ led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party‚ throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust‚ approximately two-thirds were killed. Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust‚ as were approximately two million Jewish
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think that youd have to be crazy too think that another Holocaust in todays world is near impossible‚ but would it be that hard when there are still people in the world that think that hitler had the right ideas. Just in 2001 Osama Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11‚ all because he hates white people? Or vise versa for are part after what they did so are we suppose too hate muslims and kill them all well if you think about that’s how the Holocaust started was because hitler want too eliminate the jewish
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Gentile Victims of the Holocaust During the Holocaust‚ sixteen to twenty million Gentiles from various countries throughout Europe were killed. These victims included Gypsies‚ Poles and other Slavic people‚ people who were physically or mentally disabled‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ homosexuals‚ clergymen‚ political enemies‚ resistance fighters‚ asocials‚ African-German children‚ and still others. Each group wore different colored badges as means of identification. These non-Jewish victims died from starvation
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Children of the Holocaust Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks. 1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The
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What is courage? Yettie Mandels is the definition of courage. She had strength in times of pain and grief and hope for a better tomorrow. Yettie was willing to do the unthinkable in outrageous circumstances. Courage is a thing we all strive for‚ and Yettie achieved it. She was literally fearless and never afraid to face her fears. Lets face it ‚ she was one of the many lucky survivors of the Holocaust.That is courage. Pregnant and struggling to stay free‚ Yettie Mendel was a very brave and courageous
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Nuremberg Trials about? The Holocaust was a trouble time for many people and when it was over of many it wasn ’t over for others. The Nazis did horrible things and people wanted justice‚ that ’s when the Nuremberg Trials started. The Nuremberg Trials concise of three main things‚ the crimes that were committed‚ what happened to the people that were convicted of the crimes‚ and who were people that here convicted with a crime. There were many crimes committed during the Holocaust; so many that criminal
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Holocaust is a "Greek word meaning‚ ’destruction of an entirety; a whole’" (Berry Notes). The Holocaust usually refers to a time in Germany when Adolf Hitler was Chancellor‚ and he and his many followers killed around six million Jewish people‚ as well as around six million others. We can see the beginnings of Hitler’s theories in his book‚ Mein Kampf‚ which means "my struggle"‚ in which he talks about the master race theory‚ where all other races than the master Aryan race should serve or be exterminated
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and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states‚ are and henceforward shall be free.” When Americans typically think about slavery‚ they think about African American slaves that began in 1620 and ended in 1865 when President Lincoln abolished slavery with the 13th amendment. Slavery actually began much earlier than that starting around the 1600’s with Native Americans. Native Americans were captured‚ and named savages during the english settlement
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Sociological Event Analysis of the Holocaust Introduction For this final project we have been asked to select a significant sociological event for which I have chosen the Holocaust of World War II‚ and then analyze the effects on society by answering the several questions. First how and why this event was sociologically interesting? Next we will discuss what social context that the event occurred in. Then we will look at how many people were affected by this event and the presence of possible trends
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