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Tell Them We Remember Summary

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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. Honestly, I never fully understood what the Holocaust was and I chose to read this book to learn more about it. 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 the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). In the January of 1933, Hitler became Chancellor, or …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 his principle many Jewish people were mistreated and humiliated. However, not only were 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 destroying the Polish Army and decided to enslave Polish people. The Nazis saw them as a lower human being. Then they began to destroy Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses one by one. The Nazis sent them to concentration camps, executed those who were arrogant, imprisoned Jews, kidnapped children, killing squads shot more than a million Jews and hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and overcrowded them on trains or prisons which led to spreading disease, lack of air, and starvation. However, there were also rescues during the Holocaust and countries saved tens of thousands of Jews and Poles. At last, the Holocaust ended on May 8th, 1945. Near the last days of war, Hitler committed suicide

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