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    move at all until they didn’t hear anything more! The reason she lived through most of this was because of her mom, grandma, grandpa, and her dad! They all helped her through the hard times. She was able to go back to America after they were in the ghetto camp for nearly 3 years! Next, let’s talk about

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    did not fight back against the Nazi’s. But what many people do not know is that about 30,000 Jewish people resisted and fought back against the Nazi command (Resistance). The Holocaust started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The Jews were forced into ghettos and were ostracized from the world by a wall or barbed wire fence. There were also concentration or death camps where after the war ended, almost no Jews survived. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people engaged in both armed and unarmed resistance

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    something instead of just letting the Germans take over. Acts of resistance towards the holocaust weren’t just left alone. Resistance regarding the Nazi, or Germans could lead the Jews to death. Armed resistance or even resistance in the camps and ghettos had harsh punishments and the Jews knew that. Although, when the Jews found out that they were going to be all killed as the “Final Solution” they didn’t think twice about the punishments and just went for it. Thinking they were making a difference

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    Because they were ghetto they were never looked at to be improved. Social services are supposed to provide good benefit to the community like education and importantly medical care. “Walking down streets. See an abandoned building, graffiti on the wall …Walking by some abandoned houses.” ( Jones, Page 36) Social services didn’t care for the wellbeing of that community. They played a big part on poverty because if they took time to look at places like the projects or the “ghetto”, the community could’ve

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    Sendler). But, in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto was established (Irena Sendler) and 400,000 Jews were sealed in (Smuggling…). From 1942 to 1943 she worked to help the Jews in the ghetto (Irena Sendler). Irena was able to get inside with a fake pass from the Warsaw Epidemic Control Department (Irena Sendler). She used inspecting the sanitary conditions as her cover (Smuggling…). She was really bringing supplies to the Jews inside the ghetto (Irena Sendler). The ghetto had terrible conditions (Smuggling…)

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    “After work my stepfather…,” he says, “...made extra money by smuggling food into the Jewish ghetto.” (citation) A lot of Jewish people in Europe relied on the black market to get goods in order to survive. They were be willing to sell whatever they had in order to get items they require to survive. (Horwitz 137) The reason why the Jews were selling

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    Title Auschwitz concentration camp was the source of heartbreak, pain, and devastation for millions of Jews. Formed in 1940, it was one of the largest concentration camps established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of three parts; Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. The journey to Auschwitz was a long and painful one, impacting people long after it closed its doors in 1945. Jews were painfully affected before, during, and after the time of Auschwitz. This paper

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    They were in Poland in 1942 when the Germans were coming to kill the Jewish and bring them to concentration and extermination camps. Kristina and Pavel ´s family tried to escape using the sewers,. Pavel got caught during this and was brought to the ghetto and killed about 7 months after. But, Kristina and the rest of her family made it down to the sewers without getting caught and stayed there for 14 months straight. The Holocaust was as dangerous as letting someone get away with a murder. The similarities

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    The Holocaust was the persecution and the murder of six million Jews by Hitler, the nazi party and its collaborators. The meaning of the word holocaust is "sacrifice by fire." During the holocaust the government was the Nazi party. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Germans thought the Roma's (gypsies), homosexuals, and the disabled people were

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    All were shot in front of the population in the city. Thereafter, the Germans divided all work parties leaving the ghetto into groups of ten; if one person escaped, the entire group would be killed. “Collective reasonability” was a practical measure to contain resistance. The main aim of the practice was to kill people indiscriminately and strike fear into the entire

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