Savannah Klinger
Mrs.Grothmann
Informative Essay
09 September 2015
HOLOCAUST/SURVIVOR
On September first in 1939 Germany invaded Poland. In which this began the start of World War II. It was also the beginning of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the state sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Greek meaning of the Holocaust is, (sacrifice by fire.) When Nazi’s came to power in 1931 they believed that Germans were racially superior, and that Jews were inferior. BEFORE PARAGRAPH
At the end of the 19th century, a racist-biological anti-Semitism was developed. The Jews were increasingly perceived as a specific problem to society, a problem that needed solving if the nation were to
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The Ghettos turned out to be a transition for the Jews from bad to worse. Until there was a day when the officers came and separated them by gender, meaning families were split apart, their belongings were taken away from them , and their heads were shaved and they were stripped down to nothing. Jews were put into train cars that moved them from their location to the concentration camps, and unfortunately for most Jews, if not all, it didn’t turn out very well. Well Hanna survived all concentration camps they took her too. Then she escaped from a forced march and hid in the woods until Germany surrendered in the …show more content…
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Not all of the Jews in Europe were murdered in the Holocaust. After the fall of the Third Reich. Hundreds of thousands of people were homeless and seeking a new life. These were known at the time as "displaced persons." Among them were several hundred thousand Jews.who had either survived the horrors of the concentration camps or escaped the Nazis altogether. Resettling these displaced persons was the job of the United Nations. They were taken to the United States and continued their lives. Among these Jews were Hanna. She immigrated to the U.S in 1946 and became a masseuse because it was the only way she could work in the medical field without having to graduate high school. At age 57 after having two sons that graduated college. She finally began her college education. It’s not clear when or how Hanna died. But however it may have been better than dying at a younger age in a concentration with the rest of many
January of 1933 the Nazis came to rule of Germany. Nazis believed that Germans were racially superior and seen Jews as a threat to their German racial community. Due to this reason, the Nazis created the Holocaust. The Holocaust is known as a time in history when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis and his collaborators killed to about six million Jews, through Genocide, Ethnic cleansing, deportation, and mass murder. But the point of this story is to tell the story of a young woman who I had the privilege to meet by the name of Anna Seelfreud Grosz who survived this tragic time in history.
Poland was devastated when German forces invaded their country on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II. Still suffering from the turmoil of World War I, with Germany left in ruins, Hitler's government dreamt of an immense, new domain of "living space" in Eastern Europe; to acquire German dominance in Europe would call for war in the minds of German leaders (World War II in Europe). The Nazis believed the Germans were racially elite and found the Jews to be inferior to the German population. The Holocaust was the discrimination and the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its associates (Introduction to the Holocaust). The Nazis instituted killing centers, also known as “extermination camps” or “death camps,” for being able to resourcefully take part in mass murder (Killing Centers: An Overview).
The Holocaust or the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew meaning ‘the day of the Holocaust and heroism’ refers to the period of time from approximately January 30,1933, when Adolf Hitler became the legal official of Germany, to May 8,1945. After the war was over in Europe, the Jews in Europe were being forced to endure the horrifying persecution that ultimately led to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews with about 1.5 million of them being children as well as the demolition of 5,000 Jewish communities.
A holocaust is defined as a disaster that results with the tremendous loss of human life. History, however, generally identifies the Holocaust to be the series of events that occurred in the years before and during World War II. The Holocaust started in 1933 with the persecuting and terrorizing of Jews by the Nazi Party, and ended in 1945 with the murder of millions of helpless Jews by the Nazi war-machine. "The Holocaust has become a symbol of brutality and of one people's inhumanity to another." (Resnick p. 11)
The Holocaust was the mass killing of all of the Jews in Western Europe during an event referred to by the Nazis
I think a big impact on the life of Jews would be their belief in God
The Holocaust is a period of the world’s history many heard of, but few know the extent
When World War 2 broke out in 1939, the United States of America was facing the dilemma of whether or not to intervene in the massacre known as the Holocaust. Some people believe that the United States did all they could to help the victims of the war. Some believe that America did hardly anything. But, there is stronger evidence pointing towards the fact that the United States did not do enough to stop the killing initiated by Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi army.
“There exists no luck, everything is, as it should be, we meet the people who we are fated to meet, we experience what we are fated to experience in our life.” (-George Brady.) The Holocaust was a very catastrophic time in history, and it should never happen again. Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis created over hundreds of Ghettos all around the world (Wood). Hana Brady was a 13-year-old girl who died in the Holocaust. She had blond hair, blue eyes, and a pretty face. Although the Holocaust was a calamity, if the Holocaust never happened, then people would not have the opportunity to learn about Hana Brady.
Millions upon millions of people were killed in the holocaust, that is just one of many genocides. There are many similarities between different genocides. Throughout history, many aggressors have started and attempted genocides and violence on the basis of someone being the "other".
Holocaust Hero: A One of a Kind Man. What is a hero? A hero can be classified as a number of things. A hero can be a person who, in the opinions of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal.
What is genocide? “Genocide is a deliberate, systematic destruction of racial cultural or political groups.”(Feldman 29) What is the Holocaust? “Holocaust, the period between 1933-1945 when Nazi Germany systematically persecuted and murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other people.”(Feldman 29) These two things tie into each other.The Holocaust was a genocide. Many innocent people were torn apart from their families, for many never to see them again. This murder of the “Jewish people of Europe began in spring 1941.”( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the most harshest things done to mankind.
The Holocaust could be best described as the widespread genocide of over eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It all began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's newest leader, enforced the Nuremburg Race Laws. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and segregated them from the rest of the population. As things grew worse, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
Anti-Semitism, a hatred of Jews, has been present for centuries in many places. However, the term ‘Anti-Semitism’ itself only came into use in the nineteenth century, and along with it came an ideology which fuelled this deep psychological hatred to develop into a political movement which culminated in Nazism. Throughout history, the reasons for Anti-Semitism have differed and in Imperial Germany, it was a combination of religious, racial and political factors which led to such hostility toward Jews. However, the economic state of the nation is often thought to be the main reason behind the way in which Jews were treated during this period.