Unreliable Facts About The Holocaust

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines this period of time as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The word Holocaust comes from the greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire,” but since 1945 this word has been given a completely different meaning, the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. The holocaust was a war between two main parties, the Nazis, who came to power in 1933, and the Jews. Nazis were lead by Adolf Hitler, who had as a motive to kill all minorities in Germany. The Nazis believed they were the superior race and jews were considered to be inferior.

The knowledge regarding the Holocaust was taught in school and as a student, it was necessary to read The Diary of Anne Frank. I found it shocking that Hitler managed to order those individuals under his rule to believe anti-Semitic beliefs and kill so many Jewish people. I am Caucasian, not really any different from a Jewish individual and I could not imagine being forced into a concentration camp to work, starve, be beaten, and killed because of my culture. On some levels, I relate the Holocaust and the Jewish population to the African American battle with slavery. In my opinion, both races were treated unfairly and the results have

Many of us believe that the holocaust happened but, there are many that oppose that view. The people that see the Holocaust as a false thing in history that never happened have reasons to believe that just as the people who think it is real. One of the more obvious reasons is the jewish population. The Holocaust could not have happened if the World Almanac states that in 1939 the jewish population had roughly 15,688,259 , but in 1948 the jewish population was in between 15,600,000 to 18,700,000. (How The Holocaust was Faked) Multiple sources and people say that 6,000,000 jews were killed, but the numbers do not add up. All of the 6,000,000 jews that were supposedly killed apparently do not have names because there is no documentation of the names of these so called victims. One would think at that the very detailed studies and paperwork that the germans took would be somewhere

The subject of whether the Holocaust should be taught to younger students has been debated for a long time. Many people think it is a too gruesome topic to teach about while others think people should know what happened in the past and how to avoid it in the future. This essay is on the latter’s side. Some people don't understand how bad the past was and they need to know so that history doesn't repeat itself. There are many reasons why to teach the Holocaust to younger students.

More than 11 million people were victims of the Holocaust. Only over 200,000 of the victims survived, but in many schools, their stories are left untold. While it may be true that the facts about the Holocaust are rather mortifying, students can benefit from learning them. Many people choose to ignore the benefits, and do not teach it, but it’s history and history must be taught. If not ignoring that, they’ll say they have too much content to cover, but that statement is flawed in a multitude of ways.

Do people need to know about history of the time? What if they believe it never actually happen, and who are they supposed to affect? “Different nations concentrate on different aspects of the Holocaust; some memorials are firmly in the tradition of the celebration of heroism (of those who resisted and fought the Nazis) while others are intended spuriously as anti- monuments, gestures which attempt to realize new form of representation of memory”. Libeskind’s Jewish Museum fits into the representation of memory based on what one had to go through in the concentration camps and before in the Ghetto or even being exiled to another land just to be put in a camp anyway. However some people think the Holocaust never happened, “It is a paradox that many of those who supported the idea of the Holocaust now claim that it was a hoax.

The Holocaust has always been something that fascinates me immensely. Throughout my life I have taken three different courses on it, visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., and read several books, including the Diary of Anne Frank, on the topic, so it is safe to say I have some knowledge of The Holocaust. In my opinion, The Holocaust is the most horrific thing to happen within the last 100 years. To think that only 84 years ago the killing of nearly 6 million Jewish people occurred makes me nauseous.

The holocaust is just as horrifying as it is bewildering in many ways, especially in the sheer number of innocent people murdered. The number of people murdered at Auschwitz alone out numbers the losses of American as well as UK soldiers and civilians in WWⅡ. This is especially egregious when you take into account the some “42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe...”( The Holocaust Just got more Shocking).

Learning about the Holocaust helps us in our lives today. We learn about the Holocaust for many reasons and it is a good thing we learn about it. It was a horrible time where the Nazis took over 6 million jews and killed them. They were brought to concentration camps and killed. Some people did survive, but they were scarred by the horrible things the Nazi’s did to them. Overall this was just a horrible event that could definitely help us in our lives today if we know what happened.

Not only is the Holocaust a large part of history in general, but it is a haunting part of Jewish history. Many Jewish survivors have tried to shut out their past, but it is almost impossible for them to forget something that has impacted their lives in such a huge way. One survivor, Zelda Fuksman, said, “Teaching about the Holocaust is not just our job, it's our inheritance. It's our history. We can't rewrite it and we can't forget it” (“Next Generations Holocaust…”). It is people like Zelda who help the public and Jewish community remember and learn about an important part

The percent of people who believe that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust varies between age groups and religious groups. Hindus and Muslims were most likely to believe that the number of Holocaust deaths is exaggerated followed by Christians and Buddhists. 30% of all religions combined believe the Holocaust is a myth. “Holocaust denial has been called by some scholars the new antisemitism for it recycles many of the elements of pre-1945 antisemitism in a post-World War II context. (source)” People younger than 65 were more likely to believe that the Holocaust is a myth, and people over 65 were more likely to believe that the number of people killed in the Holocaust has been distorted.

Did you know that over eleven MILLION people were killed during the holocaust? Over half of them were Jewish or Russian POW’s! Iby Knill was thrown into Auschwitz even though she was engaged to a Hungarian man, which by law means that she is legally allowed to live in Hungary. Nevertheless, the Germans still took her away; all because one guy pretty much brainwashed most of a country to believe that Aryan was the superior race and all others should be exterminated. One thing can be said,is that the Holocaust was an unbelievably horrible time.

The word holocaust comes from the greek words holos (whole) and kaustos (burned)was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering on an alter. Since 1945 the word was taken to a horrible meaning leading to the death of over 11 million jews polish citizens, polish jews and polish christians, more than 6 million of the people killed were polish. Adolf Hitler killed most of them in gas chambers or starved them to death. The few people that did survive described it as hell on earth. If people weren't killed immediately they were worked and were given barely any food.

The holocaust was an appalling event everyone was horrified to learn had transpired throughout the Second World War. Only after the camps began to be liberated by the Allied forces was when the truth of the situation was divulged to the public, and the Germans saw the consequence of their ignorance. That was the initial belief, anyway, but as time progressed history and research shows that the majority of ordinary Germans were aware of the evolving horror of Hitler 's Holocaust. Germans were aware that concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were denounced as below humans and treated as such. They knew that the inhumane behavior towards the Jews and other minorities in the camps metamorphosed to something harsher: mass genocide. The acceptance the common German had possessed was caused by deplorable conditions received after World War I, which allowed for the adoption of Adolf Hitler as a leader due to their alacrity to resume life before the war, and the result of Hitler’s propaganda against the Jewish community.

As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz