On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler took power as chancellor of Germany (Anne Frank Biography). What people did not know was that soon one of the world’s darkest times was on the verge of taking hold. In the next decade, approximately six million Jews died, along with others that Hitler deemed unworthy enough to live. He claimed that he was only making the country stronger by getting rid of those with “bad genes”. There were an uncountable number of strong figures during this period of time, known as the “Holocaust”, and they have all made a great impact on the way that we now view the Holocaust. One of these heroines, is Anne Frank, who has inspired the world with her first-hand knowledge of the Holocaust, allowing us to see the events through the eyes of a child.
Anneliese Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family was an average middle-class German-Jewish family living near the outskirts of Frankfurt. Life was happy there, but when Hitler became the chancellor of Germany on January 20, 1933, the Franks decided they should leave Germany because it no longer felt safe (Anne Frank Biography). Anne was just four years old when her family emigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933. The next year, Anne began attending a Montessori kindergarten in 1934 (The Story of Anne Frank). Anne and her sister made many friends in school and her father had established a successful company that produced a gelling agent used in jam. It was not long before
The tragic events that occurred during world war two and the holocaust were not only horrific but also morally wrong. The Jewish culture was targeted for mass genocide, by the hand of a mad-man bent on world domination, and the only way to prevent another incident like this from happening again, is to thoroughly educate the public. The actions and events that Hitler and his followers proposed not only helped the world realize the extent of his destruction but also how horrible it would be if the events were to happen again. The aftermath of the war and holocaust left half of Europe in ruins, and more than six million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Africans dead, not including
The Holocaust was a tragedy. According to ushmm.org, “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators”. This is a perfect explanation of the Holocaust seeing that so many innocent people were killed. If they weren’t they inevitably went through a great deal of pain whether it be from the abuse or watching all of their loved ones die. The Holocaust was intolerably devastating for many, tight quarters in all ghettos, and gruesome experiments on twins caused extreme pain for over 3,000 twins (thoughtco.com).
I chose this topic because it is the most interesting topic I have ever learned in school. Some people do not know the whole story of the Holocaust, they only know of bits and pieces. Most people know that Hitler rose to command and had a strong dislike of specific groups of people, which consequently began the Holocaust. The Holocaust changed the whole world’s perspective. Our fellow human were tortured, starved, and burned alive for being different from society. I wrote this essay to show that there is always another side to a story. Now I give you “The Holocaust Revealed”.
It’s about the jews and how and what happened to them after the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the time where about six million jews and one million other people dying. Most people were killed because they belonged to different races and religions. The Nazis wanted to kill people that weren’t from their same religious group. The Nazis also killed people who disrespected Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party.
Anneliese Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, June 12, 1929 (History.com). Anne Frank lived a quiet normal life attending school and having fun with all the other kids. The Franks were driven into hiding on July 14th, 1942 when Anne Frank’s sister Margot got a call to report to a work camp (Thoughtco.com). The family quickly packed and went into hiding. Otto Frank, Anne Franks father, owned a warehouse into which the family quickly departed. In just a day they had moved into a hidden room in the warehouse called the secret annex hidden by a movable bookshelf (See Figure 1).
From 1933 to 1945 over 11 million people were slaughtered over the course of those 12 years. This event in history is known as the Holocaust. The people who lost their lives were Jews, Gypsies, Political prisoners, Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, and anyone who opposed the Nazi rule. The prisoners were sent to concentration camps where they were tortured, forced to work, starved, placed in gas chambers for mass extermination, and experimented on by Nazi doctors as if they were not human. The Holocaust was put in place by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany at the time. Hitler wanted the people slaughtered in order to form a master race, known as the Aryans. His master race plan was only a side goal, his first objective was to
During the holocaust approximately 11 million people died in Nazi death camps. The horrible impact of the holocaust still impacts us today. The holocaust began January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The Nazi army had believed that they were superior. They were ruled and were lead by Adolf Hitler, their biggest camp was Auschwitz which was located in Poland. There are many sources that talk about the holocaust. One source is the book Night by Elie Wiesel and it focused on his personal experience. Another source is a documentary called Auschwitz Death Camp by Oprah Winfrey, in which she interviews Wiesel about the Auschwitz and the structures. The last source is a poem that is on a third person view and it is called "Little Polish Boy" by Peter Fischl and talks about a little polish bay and how he was held at gunpoint by the Nazi and had no one to speak up for the little boy. The big message of the holocaust is that we are all equal and memorialize the holocaust and the people that sacrificed their life for us.
17.5.1. The War’s Aftermath Hitler had promised in 1933 that in ten years one would not be able to recognize Germany. This came true, but in a negative way. Though the Allies were aware of the Nazi concentration camps during the war, it was only at the end of the war the whole story of the horror of the Holocaust was discovered. American General Eisenhower visited the death camps personally to see the extent of Nazi brutality.
“I think scars are like battle wounds- beautiful in a way. They show what you’ve been through and how strong you are for coming out of it”-Demi Lovato. On September 1st, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland which caused the start of World War II, and the official establishment of the Third Reich. The Third Reich was the Nazi German Empire that had hoped to achieve a total Aryan race and world domination. Many ethnic groups fell short to Nazi beliefs and were oppressed and destroyed. In order to establish ultimate Aryan perfection, Hitler needed to get rid of anyone he or his Nazi party thought were inferior to their cause. This included crippled, old, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally disabled, and the Jewish people. Over 11 million people were killed during this time, which would later be known in history as the Holocaust. The Holocaust is a known as the genocide and mass extermination against Jewish and other ethnic groups that were found inferior to the Nazi party. This terror lasted until the end of European war. The Holocaust is an extremely important even in our world’s history because it showed the origins of a threat, genocide, and the result of such horrible deeds.
It was a time in world History when the world was at war. It was the between the super powers, which was known as the Allies and the Axis alliances. The major countries that played a key part in the war was United States, United kingdom, Japan and Germany. Many lives were loss on both fronts during this conflict. It also launch us into a New age of technology war ware, Which is known as the Nuclear Age. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on two major cities in Japan, it changed the hole out come of war. But never the less we must focus on human life, that which was loss during the time the war was taking form. One race of people who suffered the most was the Jews. The question still remain why the German wanted the
The memoirs and stories that we have read and discussed in class have described The Holocaust as a life changing event that made both the conquered and conquerors question if there was any faith left in humanity and what were their true motives. Arguably the most horrific event of the twentieth century and even in Earth’s history, The Holocaust devastated most of Central and Eastern Europe. It separated loved ones, most of the time forever. These stories display the courage and hope of ordinary people who just wanted to make it to the next day, by any means necessary.
Germany was the site of an event in history known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide, in which the Nazi’s, with Adolf Hitler as their leader, killed about 6 million Jews. This occurrence took place in Germany and German occupied territories across Europe.
The Holocaust is one of the most devastating events in human history. It lasted ten long years and ended with over six million innocent lives lost, not to mention the soldiers who died helping to free those who remained. The lives that were lost will never be forgotten. This paper is to take a look back on how the Holocaust started, how it was able to continue and how it finally ended.
The Holocaust (Ancient Greek word for: a sacrifice completely burnt on the altar) also known as the Shoah (Hebrew word for: which specifically denotes the Nazi effort to annihilate the Jew, “catastrophic”), was the methodical, administrative, state-sponsored persecution of the murder of six million Jewish People, between 30th January 1933 to 8th May 1945. This annihilation was initiated by the members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party and its collaborators who seized power in 1933. The Nazis believed in the doctrine of racial superiority, that Germany were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior”. During this era of the Shoah, Nazi Germany also targeted other groups of their supposed “racial inferiority”: Gypsies, the
The Holocaust is a universal tragedy of almost full extermination of the Jewish population by German occupants during the Second World War. Nevertheless, even living in our times the theme of Holocaust is still a subject of poignant historiographical debates, according to the numbers of works on this event and the development of archaeology, researches from all other the world try to reveal the mystery that is hidden behind the curtain. Philosophers, politicians, and theologians give us many new explanations of how and why such hatred, leading to the insane idea of full eradication of the whole nation, could occur in the center of Europe, in the country with the richest intellectual traditions. The term “genocide” was introduced by Polish