Causes of the Holocaust The rise of the nazi's and the hatred of the Jews became known as the holocaust. Adolf Hitler being one of the biggest names that is known with the holocaust isn't the only person that contributed to this massacre of Jews. People where held in ghetto camps and later sent t...

"Auschwitz" the most brutal and horrifying German death camp of them all. Located near a town called "Oswie'cim" in Poland. Ran by Nazis under the control of Adolph Hitler. Auschwitz ran for six long strong years from 1939 to 1945. Nazis ran this camp after World War 1 and through World War 2. ...

Hitler's rise to power following World War I was nothing short of mercurial. He was able to rise to this position of dominance by offering Germans a chance to shed the fetters imposed upon them by the Treaty of Versailles. As a master of rhetoric and deception he was able to place the blame for...

Devastation As a person looks at the last thousand years of history, many events come to mind. To be more specific, many world-changing events have occurred. Many of them have good explanations, or just reason as to why they happened. There were also a handful of events that had no rhym...

The Holocaust The Holocaust was a period from January 30,1937, when Adolf Hitler first became chancellor of Germany, until May 8,1945, when the war in Europe was over. During these years, Jews in Europe were continuously persecuted. There were about six million people murdered. The Holocaust...

Primo Levi born in Turin, a Jew was trained as a chemist. Because of the persecution of Italian Jews, he joined the partisans, with whom he fought until his capture in 1944. He was sent to the Buna-Monowitz concentration camp, where his background in chemistry helped him survive until his camp was l...

World War 2 was a time desperation and anxiety. Hitler only proved just how evil man could be. His actions were on a huge scale and affected an entire race. The Lord of the Flies, written by William Goldding is a perfect example of a microcosm of war during this era. William Goldding fought as a ...

Adolph Hitler had a vision for Germany -- a vision that included only white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. Hitler needed to eliminate all Jews from the conqurered nations of Europe to perfect this. How did he carry this out? It started with hard labor camps and putting the Jewish into the Gh...

Angels of Life and Death "I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more" (Bulow 9). These are the words...

World War II and the diseased mind of Hitler were the factors the led to the Genocide of the jews. People who were not the superior race in Hitler's opinion did not deserve to live. Jews were the target of the extermination. To establish his plan Hitler created Concentration Camps, where people...

In World War II and the diseased mind of Hitler were the factors the led to the Genocide. People who were not the superior race in Hitler's opinion didn't deserve to live. Jew's were the targets of the extermination. To establish his plan Hitler created Concentration Camps, where peop...

On January 27, 1945, Russian troops went to Auschwitz, which was a village in southern Poland. There, in Auschwitz's were concentration camps. They found 7,600 inmates and World War II's most awful secret, the Holocaust. A few days later the U.S. Army freed another well known Nazi death camp, named ...

The Franks were your general German family and Anne was your general German girl. This family of four lived in Germany, Mr. Frank was an average business man, Mrs. Frank was an average mother and Margot and Anne were average students. The one thing that made them different in the eyes of Hit...

The Franks were your general German family and Anne was your general German girl. This family of four lived in Germany, Mr. Frank was an average business man, Mrs. Frank was an average mother and Margot and Anne were average students. The one thing that made them different in the eyes of Hitler, was...

NIGHT ESSAY Night, Elie weisel's harrowing first-person account of the Holocaust demonstrates the murder of his family and his own survival in the hell of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His account reaches a person at the most elemental level and shows them light and also unforgett...

And they were told "Labor makes you free"... With the establishment of the extermination camps, such as Auschwitz, came the near destruction of the population of European Jews; the torturous conditions implemented upon these extraordinary people easily surpass the imaginations of even today&...

Growing up, my little sister was terrified of the dark. Every night, she would sob and sob until one of my parents checked underneath the bed and behind the armoire for monsters. Now, I was her big sister, three whole years older, and I wasn't afraid of silly things like monsters; at least, tha...

Creation in a world of destruction: Art as survival in the Holocaust The Holocaust in art and the art of the Holocaust are two distinctly different forms of art. The former refers to any art depicting or alluding to the Holocaust. It includes works created both during and after the war, by victi...

The Twin Experiments "...When we stepped off the trains, we could hear soldiers yelling, 'Men on one side, women on the other side.' Some German SS guards were also shouting, 'We want twins-bring us twins!' "Dr. Josef Mengele was making the selections. He stood...

Night In 1933, Adolf Hitler, a terrifying man came to power, and destroyed the lives of many people all over the world. In the novel Night by Elie Weisel, he tells the terrifying story of life in concentration camps that he and his family suffered. He survived famine, forced labor, beatings, and...

To Have Fate Hold You "...I realized I didn't have my prisoner's cap. Any prisoner at morning roll call without his cap was shot ." What would it be like if your life depended on something as simple as whether or not your hat was in your possession? To have a simple twist ...

What do you know about Anne Frank? If you don't know a lot about her I will help you. Anne Frank lived from 1929-1945. She was a young adult who kept an account of everything that went on from 1943-1945 when she was in hiding. Her diary was later published a year after her death, the name of ...

The autobiographical book Night is about a young Jewish boy, Elie Wiesel, whose life was turned upside down due to the rise of Hitler, the Nazi Party's dream of religious and racial purity, and territorial expansion. When the German army entered Elie Wiesel's town in 1944, life for him and his fa...

The medical professions of Germany, including academic medicine, played a critical role in the evolution of Nazism's programs of human destruction, programs that were based in genocide and the exploitation of the dead. The atrocities associated with the Holocaust are staggering, especially wh...

HISTORY THROUGH MOVIES The Last Days The movie "The Last Days" focuses on five Shoah survivors, each one of them telling their story to the camera. These five survivors are named Congressmen Tom Lantos, Alice Lok Cahara, Renee Firestone, Bill Basch and Irene Zisblatt. Each one of the...