Most people did not change their names. However, some refugees from Germany in Britain and the U.S. adopted English names ... In those days there less tolerance of cultural diversity and there was a lot of pressure on newly arrived immigrants to become 100% American or British. It was widely considered 'bad manners' to have an unpronounceable name. Some names could, in fact, cause really difficultu, such as Hoch, Hecht, Jaeger and so on.
Please note that the practice of anglicizing names was well under way much earlier.
Yes, many people tried to survive the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was the attempted extermination of Europe's Jews. About six million were killed during the Holocaust.
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They ran for their lives...
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They were people who suffered during the Holocaust and lived after it.
Yes, many people tried to survive the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was the attempted extermination of Europe's Jews. About six million were killed during the Holocaust.
They ran for their lives...
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They did in America!
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The Nazis organized the holocaust
the holocaust was not a "war" it was the result of a genocide of millions of people during wwll
People that were killed during the Holocaust in addition to the millions of Jews were the Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and people with disabilities. Also killed were Gypsies, Poles, Soviet POWs, and slaves in Eastern Europe.
About 190,000 People died at Auschwitz I during the Holocaust.
Some people helped individuals during the Holocaust. Nobody tried to 'prevent the Holocaust' - even the Allies did not try to do that.