The Holocaust By Jeff Hay And Frank Chalk

Ian Kershaw empathetically states that “The Holocaust was the systematic, extermination of six million Jews by the Nazi government and their allies during World War II.” He further add that it wasn’t until after Adolph Hitler “became Chancellor of the German government, he began targeting the Jews as racially inferior to the German people (Kershaw, 1985).

“The sight shocked the entire world” (Soviet Union soldier a part of the liberation of

The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of individuals’ primary to and during World War II. “Only 54 percent of the people surveyed by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) in a massive, global poll has ever heard of the Holocaust” (Wiener-Bronner). The Holocaust was from 1933-1945 and was run by German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a man who wanted to create his own race of people. Therefore to create this race, he wiped out anyone who did not have the specific descriptions that he wanted. For people to fit into his race, they had to have blue eyes and blond hair. This excluded the Jews and from then on Hitler slowly dehumanized them. In the concentration camp the first thing they had to pass was the selection test. The selection test was what the SS man (German soldiers) used to determine who was fit for work. Usually children, mothers, and elders were the first to die because they were not mentally fit for the work they were going to be given. People who passed the selection process either died of starvation, disease, fatigue, or assassination. It took twelve years before anyone intervened and by then it was too late for millions of people. Even though over twelve million people died during the Holocaust, genocides have still happened in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.

The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.

The Holocaust was the attempt by the Nazi regime to systematically exterminate the European Jewish race during World War II. The Holocaust was a reference to the murder of around six million Jews and other minority groups such as homosexuals, gypsies and the disabled (Wiesel, 2008).

Genocide. What is it defined as? According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, genocide is defined as any crime committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, or religious group. The Holocaust, during WWII, is one of the largest acts of genocide in human history resulting in an unfathomable amount of deaths of the Jewish race(Holocaust Encyclopedia). According to the Holocaust Museum Houston, over 5,800,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Communists, trade unionists, socialists, and gypsies are just some of the many groups also affected by this horrific event(Holocaust Museum Houston). Many unanswered questions still remain today about the Holocaust. Perhaps

There were over 1,500,000 children killed during the Holocaust. When the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945, there were only 451 children found alive. (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hidden.html) Most who were found alive are now in their 80s and 90s. Some have chosen to share their stories, while others choose to do so with families, or not at all. Children of the ages 13-18 had a greater chance at survival, although some kids below this age survived.

A holocaust is defined as a disaster that results with the tremendous loss of human life. History, however, generally identifies the Holocaust to be the series of events that occurred in the years before and during World War II. The Holocaust started in 1933 with the persecuting and

The Holocaust of 1933-1945, was the systematic killing of millions of European Jews by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis) (Webster, 430). This project showed the treacherous treatment towards all Jews of that era. Though many fought against this horrific genocide, the officials had already determined in their minds to exterminate the Jews. Thus, the Holocaust was a malicious movement that broke up many homes, brought immense despair, and congregated great discrimination. The Holocaust was an act of Hell on earth.

The holocaust, or Shoah was a systematic, planned program of genocide to exterminate all Jews. This government based program was carried out by Hitler, and its allies in the Nazi army during world war two. Approximately 6 million Jews were killed, and if the murder of the Romani, Soviet civilians and prisoners, the disabled, homosexuals, and others who apposed to Hitler’s religious, political and social views were counted, this number would be more like 11 to 17 million. The holocaust is generally described with two periods, 1933-1939, and 1939-1945, the end of WWII.

The Holocaust is defined as destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. Following 1945, the word has taken on a new meaning referring to the mass slaughtering of millions of European Jews as well as other persecuted groups (gypsies and homosexuals), by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. In Europe the Jews experienced anti-Semitism (hostility or prejudice against Jews) which dated back to the ancient world, to the time when the Jewish temples were destroyed and they were forced to leave Palestine by Roman authorities. This wide-spread hatred of the Jews augmented the virulent mindset behind the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was an ultimate abomination of Nazi racism that occurred between 1938 and 1945. The word Holocaust derived from the Greek word holokauston, which stands for a burnt sacrifice that is offered whole to God. The word was chosen for this occurrence because of the amount of dead bodies that were cremated in open fires by Nazis. The Holocaust was known for the mass murders of European Jews that took place during the Second World War. European Jews were the fundamental victims during the Holocaust and seemed to be the most targeted. In 1933, approximately nine million Jews lived in Europe and settle in 21 different countries. It eventually would be seized by Germany during the Second World War. By 1945, around five or six million European Jews had been brutally murdered. A majority of them died in concentration camps that were build primarily for Jews. However, Jews were not the only victims that were persecuted by Hitler’s and his Nazi regime. A half million Gypsies, mentally or physically disabled persons, and Soviet prisoners from war were also discriminated victims to Hitler’s Nazi genocide. Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals were also persecuted in Europe.

The Holocaust was a genocide committed by Adolf Hitler during world war II, Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The German Nazis, who gained their power in January 1933, believed that the Germans were racially superior, and the Jews were inferior and a threat to the German racial community. Throughout the holocaust Hitler had a mission to steal artwork for power, and in the midst of the Holocaust artwork and literature was stolen and destroyed. The concentration camps also held their share of art through the music and poetry of the prisoners.

The word Holocaust is derived from a Greek word that means “sacrifice by fire”. This term is very appropriate for this period in history because of the gruesome and brutal ways that people were killed. The Holocaust is described as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” (www.ushmm.org) The Holocaust took place in Nazi Germany during World War II, and was the Nazis’ way of trying to exterminate the Jewish people because they did not consider the Jews as humans and believed them to be an inferior race. Adolf Hitler himself once even said that “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.” During the Holocaust, many ethnicities and groups of people faced discrimination and punishment, but Jews were the main target of the Nazis. They were subjected to very inhumane treatment such as gas chambers, meaningless beatings, hangings, and many jews were forced to go into the crematorium, a large blazing fire that incinerated anything and anyone who entered and caused the deaths of thousands-if not millions-of Jews. The Nazis killed almost two out of every three Jews in Europe at the time, resulting in the devastation and collapse of many Jewish communities. As a result many Jewish people planned to leave Europe and start new lives in Israel. Only a very small percentage of European Jews survived through the hardships of the Holocaust, and even fewer shared their story with the

It all started to arise Nov. 9, 1938. A riot was plotted against the Jews and many Jews were arrested for unpredictable reasons. In late 1941, Germans began killing all Jews that were sick, elderly, weak, and very young. Violence against Jews kept increasing. England, France, and Spain were expelling Jews in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. Hitler ended up blaming World War II on “International Jewry and helpers”. Jews were put into concentration camps all over Europe. The Holocaust is also a genocide. Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people due to race, ethnic background or religion. The Germans killed nearly six million Jews in killing centers, factors of death that included the camps Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. More than 11 million people, including the six million Jews died over the course of time.