THE AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU CONCENTRATION CAMP IN WORLD WAR II "In the event of war, the result will not be the bolshevisation of the earth, and thus the victory for Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." –Adolf Hitler "We shall never be rough and hea...

I will leap laughing to my grave, because the feeling that I have five million people on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction -Adolf Eichmann On May 29, 1962, Adolf Eichmann was convicted and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, the Jewish people, and crimes dur...

EVERY DAY LIFE IN THE HOLOCAUST Many people from different countries where held as prisoners in concentration and death camps. The main victims of these camps were the Jews. They were discriminated because of their religion and there way of life. The number one reason why concentration and de...

Schindler's List! This magnificent masterpiece, directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of the plight and suffering of the Jews during World War Two, and how ONE man made a difference. Oskar Schindler is a businessman and a member of the Nazi Party. At the start of the film Schindler is stuck up a...

Between June 1941 and May 1945, six million Jews were systematically annihilated under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. However, because of Germany's firm control over most of Europe, information about theFinal Solution? wasn't leaked to the presses until a year later. In June 1...

The Theme of "Otherness" in Anti-Semitic Cartoons Through political cartoons circulated in the early twentieth century, anti-Semites tried to persuade people to strongly believe the inferiority of the Jews by depicting them as a social "other". Perhaps the simplest def...

Freda Friedman was born November 8, 1928 in Poland in the little town of Gdansk. She was one of 8 kids, only six were present at the time the Holocaust was happening. Her maiden name was "Eleberger". Her father was a hard working man, since he had to support a family of eight. He was...

Introduction Genocide The U.N convention defines genocide as all acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.1 What are the motives behind genocide? There lies within humans a potential to commit genocide. The dark side o...

How far does the intentionalists theory explain the nazis final solution? There are two views concerning Hitler and how the final solution came in to place, the intentionalist's view believes Hitler had always intended to kill the Jews based on his avowed anti-Semitism in Mein Kampf and in ...

When I was a Junior in High School, a new girl came around during the middle of the first semester. Having minimal knowledge of her and who she was, my only impression was her reaction to her very first assignment-a research paper on the Holocaust. She responded with great fear and extreme diff...