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    The Holocaust is simply one of the most terrible and horrific crimes against humanity of all time.It stripped so many innocent people of their rights as human beings and put them through some of the most awful and indescribable things that most people could not even begin to imagine. Adolf Hitler tried to create a pure Aryan race‚ so he decided that all jews‚ mentally ill‚ gypsies‚ and also non supporters of Nazi ideas‚ should be eliminated from the German population.He carried out his goal by using

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    Jane Yolen uses many forms and techniques to convey distinctive ideas about the Holocaust‚ humanity and the power of storytelling. This novel is one that needs to be clearly understood to grasp the true meaning of the story. Yolen uses what could be called a radical structure to get the reader involved with the quest to find out the real history of Briar Rose. Jane Yolen has structured the novel in such a way that it combines the innocence of a fairy tale with the harsh reality of the Holocaust

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    horrible events of the Holocaust‚ the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps‚ but still‚ out of all of those‚ only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobibor‚ as well as Treblinka were quite large‚ but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945‚ the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror

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    EXAM QUESTION 1 PART A Survival in Auschwitz written by Primo Levi is a first-hand description of the atrocities which took place in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. The book provides an explicit depiction of camp life: the squalor‚ the insufficient food supply‚ the seemingly endless labour‚ cramped living space‚ and the barter-based economy which the prisoners lived. Levi through use of his simple yet powerful words outlined the motive behind Auschwitz‚ the tactical dehumanization and extermination

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    extermination of Jews was concentration camps. Throughout the 1940’s‚ when World War II started‚ Einsatzgruppen went into the ghettos and took thousands of Jews. From there they went to one of the six death camps in territory of Poland; including Chelmno‚ Belzec‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ Auschwitz-Birkenau‚ and Majdanek. The largest being Auschwitz-Birkenau with killing more than one million Jews during World War II. Not everyone sent to death camps were exterminated. Those fit enough for cruel work became

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    The Holocaust The Holocaust‚ literally meaning ‘whole burnt’‚ was a state sponsored‚ mass murder of six million Jewish individuals‚ led by Adolf Hitler and the entire German party. The Holocaust was a horrific period full of gruesome experiences and losses. This was a time when the Jewish community could not live their lives to the fullest. They had to hide their religious beliefs and fight to survive every day. The Holocaust left an effect on many people in the 20th Century. The lives

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    Joao Neto 6B Kathy Najafi 07/27/2011 Abstract Extermination camp (in German) was the term applied to a group of camps built by Nazi German during World War II with the express purpose of killing the "enemies" of the Nazi regime (Jews‚ Roma Gypsies‚ prisoners of Soviet war‚ as well as Polish and other). All this is part of the Holocaust and called Final Solution of the Jewish question‚ the plan to (in the words of Nazi) “German lands clean of the Jewish people”. These fields are also known

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    he came to the conclusion that in order to get rid of the Jews entirely he would have to kill them‚ and this resulted in the establishment of death camps. The death camps gave Hitler the guarantee opportunity to exterminate the Jews in camps like Chelmno‚ Sobibor‚ Majdanek‚ and Belzec with the use of a silent killer known as cyclon B (Brose‚ 255). The Nazi Party and Hitler used the death

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    Evil has Always Existed in Our Hearts In James Carroll’s essay‚ “If Poison Gas Can Go‚ Why Not Nukes?”‚ the author tells the readers that it is necessary to eliminate nuclear weapons from the world’s military arsenals. The author supports a universal goal of abolishing all nuclear arms because it prevents a nuclear disaster. The author wrote his essay using statistics which make it very effective. The essay as a whole is straight to the point‚ easy to read and understand‚ and well organized. The

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    There are many events that have been shown in history textbooks‚ but the main one that stuck with many is the Holocaust. This event still affects the psychological minds of veterans and family members of those that were affected. It affected so many that aging holocaust survivors suffer from PTSD all the time. They get constant flashbacks from the mass murder and their own experiences‚ and they will never be able to be calm again. The Holocaust is an event that terrified people‚ and it should never

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