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    The Holocaust, one of humanities most horrendous acts and a large topic in the history of World War II. Led by the German National Socialists, the Holocaust was an attack on innocent people for reasons of race, sexuality, nationality, and religion with their main target being the millions of European Jews who they saw as an ‘inferior race’. Hitler and his higher up stripped Jews of everything. He took their money, their homes, their jobs, their nationality, their dignity, and eventually he took their

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    The Holocaust was a horrendous period of time that will never be forgotten. The tragedy took place in Europe during World War II, though continues to be commemorated today. Textbooks, novels, and other media shed light on the Holocaust everyday to honor the six million lives that were lost. Under the order of Adolf Hitler, Jews were persecuted and murdered for their beliefs. People were pulled from their homes and moved into concentration camps, where they suffered to the point of death. Few managed

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    take too long debating on what they should intervene regarding the crime against humanity, many more lives are lost and rights are violated. This is extremely apparent in the Holocaust, the genocide in Darfur and the genocide in Rwanda. The Holocaust was a period that started around 1933 and went until 1944. The Holocaust happened when Adolf Hitler rose to power and spread his ultra-nationalistic ideas in Germany. Hitler had many extreme views on how Germany should be like. For example, he blamed

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    religions and there was a man who wanted to eliminate the entire religion and those who followed. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about the Jewish religion and their beliefs, a brief break down of who Adolf Hitler was, what the Holocaust was and how it affected those involved. “I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views. Lurie, if the

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    Treblinka, 1941 – one of the events in history during the Holocaust that will never be forgotten by the Jews. It is one of those moments where Jews come together in the hardest of times to create, in a sense, peace amongst themselves. Not only did the Holocaust affect the Jews physically and mentally at the time, but it also greatly impacted their lives after the horror. Some victims of the Holocaust, the worst atrocity committed in humankind’s history, find it extremely difficult to open up and

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    Whether the Holocaust could have been avoided remains a topic of debate for many people today, the two sides have evidence as to why both their accusations could be correct, but there are some very reasonable and likely ways the Holocaust could of never happened. There are many reasons as to how the Holocaust and WWII together could've been prevented by the actions of the people in charge before Hitler started to slowly gain more and more power over Germany. Negligence of the German government as

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    One of the biggest and most tragic genocides or mass murder known to man is the Holocaust. Many know about the horrible struggles the Jews went through from the Nazis in Germany but some wonder could it have been stopped? Could hopeless lives have had a chance of being saved? Or would have bombing the train tracks have caused even more damage? The Final Solution was a plan stemming from anti semitic thoughts of a dictator who believed the Jews ruined Germany and needed revenge. Jews who suffered

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    The Holocaust. This word brings terror and sadness to me whenever heard. Why had they even believed that conflict would solve world problems? Did they think they were better than everyone else? Are they just mentally ill, but at the same time, powerful? All these questions have answers, but these words won’t bring back the lives lost, the sadness taken in by people’s souls, or even the damage it has done to some people and not only physical. When tend to think of only the soldiers on remembrance

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    must keep alive with the bare minimum being provided. This is not a PETA ad or a letter of why you should go vegetarian. This is a direct connection to the methods of which Adolf Hitler took every ounce of humanity away from those affected by the Holocaust. A rare first person account is given by Elie Wiesel of his own dehumanization. Elie and his family were direct victims of the malicious, dictatorship of Hitler. He manipulated people to obey him like a god, convincing them to follow his word

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    The intense documentary “Genocide” reveals the suffering and pain that Jewish people went through. It also examines how the holocaust took place and what was brutally done to millions of innocent lives during this horrific time in our history. The implications of anti-semitism on Canada leading up to WWII and the Holocaust was that Jews needed Canada’s help and Canada said no. They followed the stereotypes of what Jews were perceived as and took in only 5000 Jewish refugees. Based on stereotypes

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