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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
Who was the holocaust victim who survived and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?
Elie Wiesel
What is the percentage of Jews being white?
the large majority. Unless you count Judaism as a race, then zero per cent.
What education did the kids get in the holocaust?
There was no formal schooling for Jewish children in German controlled regions during the holocaust. Often Rabis or otherswould gather small groups of children in hidden spots and try to teach them in secret.
What type of audience do graphic novels appeal to?
Typically an older audience, mostly young men, who like geeky things.
When was ghetto money produced in the Holocaust?
It varied from one ghetto to another. Usually, the Nazis did not like the people in ghettos to have money that was valid outside the ghetto, as they regarded money as a potential source of power. The best known "ghetto money" was that produced by the Lodz ghetto and by Terezin (Theresienstadt). On entering the Lodz Ghetto, Jews had to swap their ordinary currency for ghetto currency, that could not be used outside the ghetto.
What are conditions like in Prisoner Of War camps?
Hi there, the conditions in a concentration camp were brutal. you may have herd about the Australians that were in the Japanese camps, if not here's a quick review. Prisoners were given very little food if any and made to walk up and down hills constantly carrying boulders. i once talked to a soldier and he was in a camp bud only for a short time and he told me that they (reffering to the Japanese) put this man in to a tiny little box and closed the lid, once a week they would take him out give him a small amount of water then lock him back in the cage. this may seem harsh but coming from Scotland that is about all i know about Japanese Camps but i do Know more about German Camps. German camps were worse than the Japanese but many people wouldn't agree. The Germans didn't give there prisoners and food they starved them, they also had the gas chamber which more or less looked like a big Shower room the German soldiers cramped so many people in the room you wouldn't be able to move. Once the room was sealed the soldiers opened valves and the gases spilled in to the room killing most that were inside. the captives wore nothing in these camps and if you didn't dye from the torment and brutal inhuman methods of the Germans then you would probably die from neumonia. If you tried to escape then you would be shot on the spot. the Germans also had an exacutional type of thing much like what they still do in some Indonesian countries. have you heard of death by firing squad well it like that, they tied people to posts, then a line of soldiers would take aim and fire. Hitler manly had Jews and people that weren't of Hitler's perfect race he called ARYAN. Hitler thought that the perfect race all had to have no disabilities, blue eyed, blond haired so called perfect people. Hitler also didn't like it when people didn't listen to what he said and told them to do, so if you were a German or in one of the captured countries and German soldiers told you you were to join the German army you had better not disagree cause the soldiers were not going to take no for an answer and would shot you untilldead. if you are interested in this then you might like to read "Ann Franks Diary' or for just pleasure as there is no fact in this book "Hitlers Daughter" hope this helped!!!!!!! <;)
How were Jews killed 1941 onwards?
Jews were killed in many various ways such as;
Stavation - In the Ghettos where the Jews had only 153 calories a day
Gas Vans - Used on the disabled.
Machine guned - In to pits the Jews had dug out,
Sent to -
- Death camps (Treblinka and Chelmno)
- Work camps (Aushwitz through selection)
- Concentration camps (Dachau)
Death marches - At the end of the war, a womans work camp were sent to walk off a cliff and if they tried to escape they were gunned down
Where were Jewish refugees sent before concentration camps?
Before the Jews were in the concentration camp, the Nazis built a wall around their neighborhood called a ghetto. After this, the Nazis deported Jews to the camps.
How did corrie and betsie show gods love at the concentration camp?
When the German soldier beat them, they don't hate them, and even forgive them.
Inmates at Auschwitz slept on wooden what?
They slept on wooden bunks and were only allowed two blankets per person.
What was Anne Franks involvement in the holo caust?
Anne, like all Jews, was involved in the Holocaust simply because she was Jewish. Her triumph as a victim was as a documentor of the horrors of the Holocaust in a way no one else has quite equalled.
Is there proof Adolf Hitler was not Jewish?
It is generally impossible to prove a negative, so it's up to the people who think Hitler was Jewish to provide evidence. However, see the related question.
Are people with blond hair and blue eyes related to Saxons?
People with blond hair and blue eyes could be descendants of Saxons, but not necessarily. There were many tribes in Europe that had these traits; for example, probably every Germanic tribe had these features, so we could mention the Goths, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, the Vandals, the Vikings, among others. Additionally, it is very likely that some Slavic tribes and Celtic tribes had blond hair and blue eyes.
How many eagles are holding at the entrance to the world war 2 memorial?
here's an easy way to remember how to spell Philadelphia all u do is say Ph-il-a-del-p-hi-a
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What was Anne Frank's job at Auschwitz?
The jobs among the women at Aushwitz were all pretty much pointless and numbing, the most common one being digging up large rolls of sod, and moving them to another place to merely unload them again. It was all part of the planned "annihilation by work" of the Wansee Conference directives.
What was the layout of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz?
you had the kitchens on one end aned the barracks in the middle. The showers were on the sides.
What does discrimination towards a person mean?
Discrimation means treating someone differently and in a disdvantageous way - usually on grounds of religion, ethnicity, skin colour, etc. In particular, it means treating them badly in the areas of housing, employment and education.
What is a good article on the Holocaust?
a good article on the holocaust can be on facism and that is all i have to say
Why was Maximilian Kobe arrested?
Kolbe was arrested 17 February 1941 for hiding Jews. In July of the same year, Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a condemned man and died in August 1941.
Why does the term Holocaust only refer to Jews and not other people in concentration camps?
More recently, some who feel that other groups of Nazi victims have been overlooked, have extended the term to cover the overall slaughter committed by the Nazis of victims on the basis of group membership. However, among historians the term the Holocaust (as a proper noun) is generally used only of the genocide of the Jews. (See the Wikipedia article on the the Holocaust for more information).
There are, however, competing definitions. Please see the related question.
Historians' DefinitionsMost professional historians use the term specifically for the Nazi genocide of the Jews. For example Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, writes as follows:
The standard work by the distinguished Canadian historian Michael Marrus, TheHolocaust in History, focused on, to use his own words, 'the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis'. Similarly, Sir Martin Gilbert, in his documentary compilation, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy( London, 1986), concurred in referring to 'the systematic attempt to destroy all European Jewry - an attempt now known as the Holocaust'. Another author, Ronnie S. Landau, put forward a similar definition in his book, The Nazi Holocaust: 'The Holocaust involved the deliberate, systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1941 and 1945.'
Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, Verso, London and New York, 2002, pp. 113-4.
Hitler began the persecution of Jews in 1933. Also, in 1945 survivors of Death Camps had a nation to go home to, except the Jews. In 1945-46 some Jews returning home in Poland were killed in pogroms, for example at Kielce. Many of those not killed fled to Palestine, helping to create the state of Israel in 1948.
The term holocaust as applied to the extermination of the Jews during WWII is recent in origin, acquiring that meaning after movies like 'Schindler's List' came out. Certainly the number of non-Jewish civilians and POWs exterminated during WWII was probably as great as the number of Jews exterminated. In the U.S., the great injustices and killing has been told by Jewish writers, editors, and moviemakers.
Firstly, the term "holocaust" (or as Jews call it: Shoah) was adopted to replace the term "Final Solution" which was the Nazis' own euphemism for the systematic extermination of the Jews. The term holocaust (usually written with a small h-) is now often used to describe other genocides such as that of 5-7million Ukrainians by Stalin and 1.2-1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks.
Sadly, movie makers in the United States often overlook the fate of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Although horrific and we should never forget, it seems a week doesn't go by that a Holocaust program isn't shown on TV or in the newspapers. Contemporary Germans feel tremendous guilt due to this barrage of media even though they weren't even born in this era.
Shoa , also spelled Shoah and Sho'ah, Hebrew for "Calamity", is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust. It is used by many Jews and a growing number of others due to theological discomfort with the literal meaning of the word Holocaust; these groups believe it is theologically offensive to imply that the Jews of Europe were a sacrifice to God. It is nonetheless recognized that most people who use the term Holocaust do not intend such a meaning. Similarly, many Roma (Gypsy) people use the word Porajmos, meaning "Devouring", to describe the Nazi attempt to exterminate that group.
As we all know Jews were going to be killed, none of them were meant to survive, and that may be why people say it is Jews' Holocaust. But, as I think about it, if Hitler would finish with Jews before the end of the war, Poles were next. What is more, there was already great number of Poles who died along with Jews that if not close to the number of Jews killed, probably is the same or even greater. I think that saying it was only the Jew's Holocaust is just a wrong interpretation of the history.
Communists, socialists, liberal intellectuals, a few Church figures, trade unionists, Gypsies, physically and mentally disabled all fell victim to the Nazis also.
The very first target of the Nazis was not so much the Jews, or any single religion or ethnic group for that matter. Once Hitler seized power he gave his brownshirts the go-ahead to attack the Communists and Social Democrats (who were in fact the Nazis' arch enemy). The Reichstag fire was used in order to make the Communist Party illegal in Germany.
What does it MATTER if it was 5.69 Million? It was people killing people, for the simple reason, that they were different in some [minor] way. No point arguing about Numbers. I was born in Germany in 1941, and believed all the stories about how 'the 'Jews lived off the backs of the German public. I believed the films that the Nazis showed of the 'Happy Jewish Families' out in the East, in very nice 'rest camps'.. I did not know, that after the films were made, all those people, died! I, and all the 'grown ups' believed the Films, BECAUSE WE WANTED TO! The rumours we all heard, were too horrible to believe. We were all guilty, even I as a baby, for we believed!! And that, as well as the destroyed families, made us all Victims of a system. Yes, even the Ordinary German , was a Victim, and don't forget, the Camps were at FIRST built to deal with Germans who said the wrong things to the wrong people, even their own children. Millions died in these Camps, some were also German. Just one life lost, is a tragedy. So forget about numbers, and just make sure it cannot happen again....Though I will not hold my breath!
Further points
There is an increasing tendency to acknowledge other victims of the Holocaust. It would be unfortunate if there were an unseemly quarrel about 'ownership' of, for example, Holocaust Memorial Day. However, surely every group is entitled to its own remembrance of what happened.
