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Tell Them We Remember Book Report

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an institution to remind us about the ones who were murdered in the Holocaust. “Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust” is a nonfiction book written by Susan D. Bachrach and it informs the reader about the tragic incidents that occurred during the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, nine-million Jews were living in every country of Europe. In the early 1930s, Germany was facing despair and lack of power in their government. This was called the Weimar Republic and it led to following a new leader, which was Adolf Hitler and his party, the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). In the January of 1933, Hitler became Chancellor, or head of the government. Germans found hope …show more content…

Later on, he came to greater power and democracy was taken away in Germany. Hitler strongly believed in racial “purity” and thought that Jews weren’t a religious group, but the poisonous “race”. Due to this principle, many Jewish people were mistreated and humiliated. However, not only Jews were persecuted, but Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses also were because of their beliefs and race. In the late 1930s, the war began with Hitler conquering the Polish Army and enslaving Polish people. Then they began to destroy Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses one by one. The Nazis sent them to ghettos (Jewish residential quarters), executed those who were arrogant, imprisoned Jews, kidnapped children, killing squads shot millions of Jews and hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and overcrowded them which led to spreading disease, lack of air, and starvation. At least there were rescues during the Holocaust and countries saved tens of thousands escaped Jews and Poles. Finally the Holocaust ended on May 8th, 1945. At the last days of war, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his closest deputies. Germany was now free of the Nazis and most Jews didn’t settle back in Europe as they had had in their past lives.

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