The Holocaust: The Stolen Generation

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).

In the case of the Holocaust, Jews were discriminated for their religion, and not fitting the “perfect’ Aryan race that Hitler was trying to create. (History.com/salem Witch Trials)The Holocaust was led by Hitler and the German army, they administered the mass killing called the “Final Solution”. (History.com/Holocaust) Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust Gypsies, mentally ill, and disabled people were all discriminated by Hitler and did not fit his Aryan race. (United States Holocaust memorial museum.com) They were forced into concentration camps were they suffered until they were eventually killed or starved to

The holocaust was a genocide that killed a lot of Jews. Over 6 million. The genocide started in January 30th, 1933 when Adolf Hitler can to be general of his army going 100000 deep. After eight years, in December of 1941 the USA jumped in after years of watching to help. Before the USA jumped in to help a little under 5 million Jews were killed. After four years of war and a million more Jews killed the genocide ended in may 8 1945. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust” (Fidel Castro).

Do you remember being taught about the Holocaust when you were in school? 11 million people were annihilated in the Holocaust. Now, do you remember being taught about the genocide of the American Indians? Over 100 million Native Americans were decimated in that conflict.("How Does Native American Genocide Compare to the Holocaust? - Quora") While both acts of genocide are terrible, the Jewish people received a country, and still have power in the world today.

The Holocaust was a tragic event that occurred during World War II. This was when Hitler took power over Germany. Those who Hitler saw as inferior, or those whom he sought not perfect, were used as Germany’s slaves. He made them work very hard, and gave them very little. These people barely got food. They were all to die after they were found to have no use. Many people were taken away from their family. Many people didn’t have any living family after the Holocaust. They were labeled displaced when they weren’t found by family members. These people came in massive populations that were dealt with by organizations like the UNRRA. Palestine was used as an escape route for Jews. The UNRRA helped these millions of Jews either

In the Holocaust people hid in places so they wouldn’t get caught and killed or suffer. In the stolen generation people were physically and sexually abused, Hitler was the main reason of the Holocaust.

500, 000 children were believed to have been taken away from their parents in institutions, they are known as the stolen generation.

The holocaust and the lost generation both had a lot of death, but the victims were different, they also impacted different parts of the world, and they had lots of missing people that were taken away from their families.

The Stolen Generation refers to the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families and assimilated into European communities between 1880 and 1970. These children were made to adopt white culture in attempt to allow aboriginal people to “die out”, through forced rejection of their heritage and banning the use of their own language. Children faced physical, psychological and sexual abuse, sexual and labour exploitation, racism, grief, and suffering. Between 1 in 10 and 3 in 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were taken by government, church, or welfare authorities and placed into institutional or foster care with non-Indigenous families.

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.

Although many of these children were later adopted and had experienced an extensive education, the emotional and social cost was too high. The heartache experienced was detrimental to the growth and to their very survival. The ‘Stolen Generation’ has had significant effects upon the Australian history and culture and destructive effects upon the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples affected.

The reason behind the stolen generation was to breed out aboriginality, it was thought that if the children could be raised in white society then when they were adults they could integrate without much trouble. What the government didn’t know is that the aborigines didn’t want to be integrated into white society, they wanted to keep their culture and ways. In 1994 there was a conference in Darwin called the Going Home Conference. Over 600 people who were taken as children in every state and territory of Australia came together to share life lessons and experience and to also talk about their native culture to keep it alive in their

Although sometimes thought otherwise, the Stolen Generations actually lasted for many decades, hence the plural, Generations. It is estimated that Indigenous Australian and half-caste children were taken from their families from as early as the late 1800s right up to as late as the 1970s. The children were removed with force with no consent from their families by the Australian federal and State and Territory Governments. Some even being removed by church missions and agencies. The children were then sent either to institutions or were adopted into white families to grow up as white cultured people, leaving their communities and traditions behind. A lot of the institutions and missions raised the children until they were old enough to work and they were then sent out to be farmhands. The Victorian Government established the right to remove any (Aboriginal) child in 1869, Queensland following in 1897 with the act passed giving the ‘Chief Protector’ the right to remove Aboriginals onto reserves and their children into dormitories. South

The holocaust was created by anti-semitic thinking, whereas slavery was created by Americans wanting to make money and free labor. The Holocaust started with Hitler. According to the writers of History.com, “Hitler made it seem like jews made the economy bad (History.com staff).” Hitler blamed Jews for losing and why the fatherland is doing so bad. He made them send to camps to die and work. On the other hand, slavery started in James when American bought 20 slaves over from Africa. According to, the writers of History.com, “In 1619 a ship of 20 African Americans came to Jamestown” ( History.com staff). Slavery started with 20 slaves coming over and the Holocaust started with Hitler. The cause of the Holocaust and slavery are different which goes to show that there are many reasons why people have been and continue to discriminate

The Holocaust was one of the worst and most horrific events that took place in world history, the largest attempted genocide ever. The Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the largest events that has ever violated human rights. The Holocaust began in 1933 with Adolf Hitler leading the anti-Jew campaign which ultimately led to the torture and murder of over six million Jews in Germany. Hitler’s campaign not only affected the Jews but others would be labeled as “undesirable” as well. Gypsies and homosexuals as well as political and religious opposition would also be eliminated. The Holocaust is taught as a mass genocide of the Jews, but more than five million others would undergo