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    state that the terrors the governments of Germany and Russia forced some of their citizens to endure are nothing less than acts of genocide. Between 1933 and 1949, over six million Jewish people from Germany and Europe perished in Nazi Concentration Camps during the Holocaust. In Stalin’s Russia, between four million and seventy million Russians departed from the Earth within the Soviet Gulags. Within these figures, there are over eighty million souls and eighty million individual experiences and

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    Jeanne Bitz Language Arts March 27, 2017 Auschwitz Auschwitz, located in poland and originally used for political enemies, it 's the biggest concentration camp run by the Nazi in World War two (Bachrach). Understanding, the daily life in Auschwitz, the medical experiment that took place in auschwitz, and the children 's experiences in the camp will better enable us to learn more about this deathcamp.    Stay at auschwitz was usually brief and agonising(Bachrach).  As a reward of surviving the guling

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    War II. The Germans killed almost two out of three European Jews due to the “Final Solution”. The National Socialist government established concentration camps to watch the Jews and later deport them out of the country. Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans deported millions of the Jews from Germany to killing centers also called “extermination camps”, where they were killed in the gassing chambers. Many survivors of the Holocaust wrote a book about how life during this time period was for them , and

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    deportation, abuse, and extermination of Jews. Concentration and death camps were an inherent feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Concentration camps were camps in which people were detained or confined. The people of Germany under Hitler’s rule had faced many harch and torturous conditions by being poorly treated and not protected during the years of 1933-1945. People like Jews, homosexuals, and political prisoners were placed in concentration camps and by Hitler allowing

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    feel? Would you be comfortable? That feeling is the exact feeling that the victims of the holocaust were experiencing during the periods they lived in the camps (Levine 350-360). The mental health of the Holocaust survivors was indeed complex and varied. Literature about the Holocaust reveals there was shock upon the arrival in the death camps for the Jews. Their experience is next to the unexplainable. The only sure thing for them at that particular time was death. The Jews lived in fear, heightened

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    Imagine being pried away from your family. Not only that, but being left at the concentration camps, knowing that you are about to face the dreaded word “death”. Concentration camps broke people’s hearts and changed them forever. They had to encounter many terrifying and petrifying medical experiments. Alongside that, the so called “concentration camps” were basically almost becoming, or were, actual death camps. The things that they had to endure were heartbreaking and agonizing. They were starved from

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    Art Speigelman’s Maus is a graphic novel that clearly displays the appalling treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust. Throughout the novel it becomes clear that the text is not just about experiencing the Holocaust but surviving it's impact. It can be easily seen that the effects of the war are long lasting and Vladek was undeniably traumatised by the event. Despite physically surviving the war, in some ways Vladek did not survive. The Holocaust also impacted Art, even though he did not directly

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    Zyklon B is a terrible thing, it killed more than 1 million people. It was used by the Nazi's to kill as many people as possible. The people killed were so innocent and did nothing to desire it. Some of the things about Zyklon B is the chemical was very poisonous, the people were tricked to going into the gas chambers, and this chemical is still used today.  Zyklon B came in the form of pellets. When the pellets were released into the air they would vaporize. They would have a blue tint to

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    The Holocaust- Extermination camps The holocaust was a Genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborates killed about six million Jews. First they took them out of their homes and sent them to work camps and then after that to extermination camps. The concentration camps were designed to be a factory of death and no one was supposed to survive. Over all mostly Jews were sent there but politicians were also sent to the camps because they were seen as threats to Germany. The heart

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    Levi, in the death camp at Auschwitz where he was taken prisoner after the arrest. The Nazis took Primo Levi, an Italian Jew and chemist, to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in 1944, where he and other prisoners endured months of cruel and inhuman treatment, stripped of fundamental rights and forced to work under adverse conditions until death. As the Holocaust survivor, the purpose of writing the book arose from the need to let the world know what was happening at the death camp and level of inhumanity

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