Free Essays on Holocaust

  1. ‘Assess the view that the German people were active and enthusiastic supporters of the Holocaust’.

    enthusiastic supporters of the Holocaust’. The holocaust has justly been described as one of the greatest atrocities in the modern world. Thus since the allies liberated the Nazi’s concentration and extermination camps there has been much focus on who was responsible for the holocaust and death of millions...

  2. HOLOCAUST ESSAY

     Anthony Gonzalez Period 2 /May 5, 2015 HOLOCAUST ESSAY Have you ever wondered how a mass extinction of a human race started in the 1940’s? Well, it all started with an evil dictator named Adolf Hitler. No one is exactly sure why he hated Jews so much but it must...

  3. Holocaust

    Kirstie Crumbley 4/15/15 Synthesis Paper 2 Many scholars have studied and questioned the beginnings of the Holocaust. The ideas of how such a massive and violent event could occur in the world’s history have been addressed through many different theories and experiments. Adolf Hitler was the...

  4. The Holocaust and Its Effects Today

    The Holocaust and Its Effects Today Stephanie Teal HIS204 American History Since 1865 Instructor: Dennis Magnuson March 7, 2011 The question we will explore in this paper is the effects that the Holocaust had on its survivors, family members and how it still affects us today. There is...

  5. Holocaust Summary

    Holocaust Essay The holocaust which took place in Germany was an extermination of Jews, Blacks, Hispanics, and basically all races. The only individuals who were considered pure and part of Hitler’s dream race were those who had blonde hair and blue eyes. At first Jews were thrown into ghettos...

  6. Women in the Holocaust

    Women In The Holocaust The Holocaust was a period of time in which six million people were brutally slaughtered at the hands of merciless perpetrators in an effort to create a ‘pure’ race. Death found its way to the Jewish race without discriminating against age, marital or economic status or gender...

  7. The Aftermath of the Holocaust

    The Aftermath of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a tragic point in history which scars the memories of so many people that either survived or witnessed the horrific torture caused by the Nazis. The survivors were very lucky to have lived through it, but there are times when their memories and flashbacks...

  8. Literature of the Holocaust

    Literature of the Holocaust Literature of the Holocaust It is amazing how the influence of one man, Adolf Hitler, could control the minds and ethics of a complete nation. The prejudice and hate that dwelled inside of him, killed an entire group of individuals. The Holocaust is the most horrifying...

  9. The Cause Anf Effect of the Holocaust

    Channing Peters English Cause or Effect Essay Effects of the Holocaust When many people look back at World War II, the first thing that comes to most peoples’ minds is the Holocaust. This is known as one of the most ruthless and world changing events known to man. All it took was one man’s view...

  10. What is the truth in Holocaust Denialism?

    is the Truth in Holocaust Denialism? Historical Investigation Project India Dwyer Synopsis This essay will fundamentally be an investigation of the movement known as Holocaust denialism. This investigation will be conducted in light of the growing numbers and supporters of Holocaust deniers in the...

  11. The Holocaust 4

    Cassie Bolton K. Scott English 1010 December 2, 2009 The Holocaust: Of all the examples of prejudiced against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most well known. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a violent war against Jews and other "lesser races". This...

  12. Holocaust: Death Camp Crematoriums of Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Holocaust: Death Camp Crematoriums of Auschwitz-Birkenau The Holocaust is considered one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. This twisted event was masterminded, by Adolph Hitler, in an attempt to establish a pure “Aryan” race. This unrestrained dictator decided that all mentally ill, gypsies...

  13. Children During the Holocaust

     Children during the Holocaust were prime targets that Hitler took advantage of and were killed just because they were Jewish. Unlike adults Children had very little chance of coming out of the war safe and unharmed. Children were ripped from their mother’s arms screaming and were thrown into the gas...

  14. Holocaust Bystanders; Placing the Blame on Surrounding Citizens and Allied Nations

    Holocaust Bystanders; Placing the Blame on Surrounding Citizens and Allied Nations It is commonly believed that the members of the Nazi regime directly responsible for the mass murders of European Jews in the mid 20th century are solely accountable for the Holocaust. As a result, local civilians,...

  15. Diaries of the Holocaust

    Introduction Salvaged Pages by Alexandra Zapruder belongs in any library, much more so in one dedicated to the Holocaust. This collection represents a cross section of European Jewry during the Shoah. The diaries are translated from many languages, including Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Polish and...

  16. Holocaust

    This report will discuss the events of the holocaust and what it had taught us. The Holocaust was the killing of mainly the Jews but also the disabled and homosexuals; they were killed because Adolf Hitler thought they were inferior. It took place from 1933 to 1945. Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany...

  17. Ibm and the Holocaust

    IBM and Holocaust Answer 1& 2: How responsible is IBM for the atrocities that the Nazis committed & should IBM have been held accountable. I would like to club my answers for both the questions, as I feel that I will be able to express more freely & clearly in this manner. Before writing my...

  18. The Events of the Holocaust

    This report will discuss the events of the holocaust and what it had taught us. The Holocaust was the killing of mainly the Jews but also the disabled and homosexuals; they were killed because Adolf Hitler thought they were inferior. It took place from 1933 to 1945. Hitler and the Nazi...

  19. Causes of the Holocaust

    Causes of the Holocaust Hitler is remembered as one of the cruellest people in world history, known for being behind some of the most atrocious acts of violence done to humans. He was the head of the government, a very smart and charming man that could make people do almost anything he wanted them to...

  20. To What Extent Was Hilter Personally Responsible for the Holocaust (Not Complete)

    extent was Hitler personally responsible for the Holocaust? The word Holocaust comes from the Greek. “Holos” means “Whole”, while “Caustos” means “Burnt”1. This indicates straight away that the Holocaust has something to do with “burning out”. The Holocaust is also a strong example of Genocide, or the...

  21. Bystanders during the holocaust

    Therefore, imagine the penalty of the Bystander Effect on all of those Holocaust victims who received no help. The Bystander Effect is the reason why bystanders greatly outnumbered people who helped victims during the Holocaust. Bystanders were ordinary people who played it safe. As private citizens...

  22. The Holocaust

    When you think of the holocaust, what do you think about? Is it the millions of Jews lives that were taken? Or is it a great, but wicked speaker named Adolph Hitler? He is probably one of the worst people ever to live. When people talk of evil deeds he is at the top of the list. He was a man of words...

  23. To What Extent Was Adolf Hitler Personally Responsible for the Holocaust Between 1934 and 1942.

    To What extent was Adolf Hitler personally responsible for the Holocaust between 1934 and 1942. There can be no doubt that Hitler's behaviour throughout his political career, from the end of the First World War, until the end of the Second World War was characterised by radical anti-Semitism. In one...

  24. The Holocaust 7

    The Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the worst acts towards humanity in the annals of history. Hitler and the Nazi regime, killed approx six million men, women & children, due to the fact that Hitler saw them as racially inferior to the Germans, consequently they needed to be exterminated...

  25. Adolf Hitler: What Lead to the Holocaust

    Kayla Fritz Ms. Zaun English Comp. 2 10 August 2010 Adolf Hitler: What lead to the Holocaust Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889. He was born in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. His parents were Alois and Klara Hitler. Adolf had 4 siblings but only one survived, the rest died in their infancy...

  26. During the Nazi Holocaust

    "I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking...

  27. World Disasters Leading Up to the Holocaust and the Aftermath

    The Major World Disasters Leading Up to the Holocaust and Their Aftermath Preliminaries - All killing is wrong. We all reap what we sow. Courage to attack our convictions. I. The Bubonic Plague (1345-1600) - Estimated 25 million dead A. Beginnings in Mongolia - Killing and Eating Plague-infested...

  28. The Holocaust

    The Holocaust was a catastrophic, cataclysmic event in history that took place over 55 years ago, but why is it still so important to us today? One of the many reasons it is still widely discussed today, is because of the many rights it violated for the Jews as human beings. The main goal of the holocaust...

  29. Hindu History - the Holocaust

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLOCAUST - I -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS "The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the massacre of...

  30. Life in the Holocaust

    Life in the Holocaust My mother and I finally arrived after forty days in a packed cattle car. There were eighty of us in the car with a little bit of bread, a few pails of water and a bucket for a urinal (Laqueur 203). There was little air and most of us had to stand or take turns sitting (Wiesel...

  31. The Horrible Event That Took Many Lives and Disturbed Many People

    Topic: Holocaust Thesis: The Holocaust was a horrible event that took many lives and disturbed may people. Sources: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_holocaust This source will benefit my final paper because it describes what the Holocaust is. It tells what started this event and where...

  32. holcaust

    Holocaust deniers prefer to refer to their work as historical revisionism, and object to being referred to as "deniers".[7] Scholars consider this misleading, since the methods of Holocaust denial differ from those of legitimate historical revision.[6] Legitimate historical revisionism is explained in...

  33. Stuff

    occasional pieces were collected in such volumes as Holocaust Scholars Write to the Vatican , and The Holocaust and the Christian World , and The Vatican and the Holocaust , and Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust , and Christian Responses to the Holocaust ”and on, and on, until we seemed to be facing what...

  34. Les Miserables Indifference

    a person’s life. One of the most evident occurrences in history that sprouted from a general indifference within society was the Holocaust and World War II. The Holocaust, an anti-Semitic movement run by the Nazi party in Germany, was formed and begun by a general disapproval of the Jews in Europe. In...

  35. HIS 308 Courses/snaptutorial

    Week 3 Individual Assignment WWI Veteran Interview Transcript HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 5 Individual Assignment Cold War Paper HIS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 5 DQ...

  36. HIS 308 Course Material - his308dotcom

    HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.his308.com Present presentation with 10 to 12 PowerPoint® slides on a piece of artwork or image from the 1930s or 1940s that illustrates the Holocaust. • For Local Campus students, these are...

  37. Maus

    Maus and Guilt While on its surface Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman's experiences in the Holocaust, it is also much more. In many ways, the relationship between Vladek and his son is the central narrative in the book, and this narrative deals extensively with feelings of guilt. The primary types...

  38. Conflict

     Last Train A Holocaust story (Book Report) The book Last Train – A Holocaust Story, written and narrated by Rona Arato is about the struggle of many Jews from a massive devastation brought by the Nazis. This sorrowful event started at Karcag, Hungary on April 1944 and ended at Farsleben...

  39. Arts and Humanities

    Danyl Apilado HU300-25 Art and Humanities: Twentieth Century and Beyond The Holocaust: A Result of Stereotype Professor Ken Caron September 7, 2010 The Holocaust: A Result of Stereotype Throughout history, past ideas and events have shaped the course of the future. The events and ideas that...

  40. Briar Rose Essay

    cruel reality of the holocaust. Yolen has developed the theme of survival through a different range of voices to her main narrators by the use of symbolism, intertextuality and allegory in the narrative structure. This empowers her to get quite distinct explanations of the holocaust and the impact that...

  41. Night

    them to Auschwitz. Eliezer’s family is among the last to leave Sighet and it is then Eliezer began his horrible experience as being apart of the Holocaust. During this long and painful experience, Eliezer questioned his faith more than once. Before he and his family were forced onto the camps...

  42. Styles and Mood of Maus

    graphic novel Maus and Maus II, Arty Spiegelman’s creative presentation and style creates a mood that greater emphasizes the emotions fostered by the Holocaust. This essay will discuss the definition of style and mood, coupled with a critical analysis of the tone and presentation of the close reading. Mood...

  43. Arguing Cause

    terrorized, beaten, killed or sent to concentration camps in an effort to eliminate the race (Marrus). Many have questioned the motives of the Holocaust and tried to find a name to blame or an explanation for the actions the followers took who seemed to have no issues following their leader without...

  44. Auschwitz

    between 1.1 and 1.4 million people in total. It was a horrific symbol of death, the Holocaust itself, and the destruction of European Jewry. Bibliography Dossa, Shiraz. "Auschwitz's Finale: Racism and Holocaust." Third World Quarterly 33, no. 9 (2012): p1575-1593. doi:10.1080/01436597.2012.720829...

  45. Maus

    not share the personality traits that Vladek seems to have acquired during the Holocaust. The same can be said for Anja, whose experience was nearly identical to her husband's, yet, like Mala, Anja did not leave the Holocaust filled with bitterness and afflicted with a compulsion to save even the most...

  46. Slaughter House

    kill” (Valentino 9). When most people hear the term genocide, the Holocaust is normally the first thing that comes to mind, although genocide did not stop with that event. There have been other massive killings just like the Holocaust in other countries. Genocide is the result of a serious action to...

  47. pic analysis

    several photographs of the Nazi death camps were released and distributed worldwide. These photographs depicted the carnage committed during the Holocaust and instilled a deep hatred towards the Nazis. Some of these images served to justify American intervention in World War II. The power of...

  48. martin luther king

    really put it into perspective for me. The movie brought pain to my stomach and a lump to my throat. I was angry that such a monstrosity, like the Holocaust, could happen. I was saddened that the men, women and children had to go through such a terrible and inhumane crime and death. When I close my eyes...

  49. Freedom Writers Research Paper

    gang violence constantly arising. Students found writing journals helped them cope and get through these rough times, as Anne Frank did during the Holocaust The Los Angeles Rodney King Riots put many Americans in shock. On March 3, 1991, four police officers in Los Angeles, California, stopped a car...

  50. Structure in 'Time's Arrow'

    is the life story of a Nazi doctor who worked at Auschwitz, the setting for the climax of the novel, then escaped justice and hid in America. This Holocaust novel is Martin Amis’s exploration of ‘The Nature of the Offence’, a phrase he borrowed from Jewish Italian writer, Auschwitz survivor and eventual...

  51. shiraz

    English I Brodsky Holocaust Research Paper For this assignment you will select a research topic from the list below, create a thesis and write a 2-4 page paper, that explains how indifference inspired the journey or impacted the life of the person or group you are researching. Research Procedure: ...

  52. HIS 308 UOP Course/ShopTutorial

    Week 3 Individual Assignment WWI Veteran Interview Transcript HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 5 Individual Assignment Cold War Paper HIS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 5 DQ...

  53. The Sum of All Anti-Jewish Actions Carried Out by the Nazi Regime

    The Holocaust is the sum of all anti-Jewish actions carried out by the Nazi regime. The German Jews were deprived of their legal and economic status. That was the starting point to the murders of close to six million of Jewz in Europe. The holocaust started when the Nazi’s came to power in German in...

  54. HIS 308 TUTOR Peer Educator/his308tutordotcom

    Week 3 Individual Assignment WWI Veteran Interview Transcript HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 5 Individual Assignment Cold War Paper HIS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 5 DQ...

  55. HIS 308 UOP Courses Tutorials/ Uoptutorial

    Week 3 Individual Assignment WWI Veteran Interview Transcript HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 3 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 4 DQ 2 HIS 308 Week 5 Individual Assignment Cold War Paper HIS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 HIS 308 Week 5 DQ...

  56. HIS 308 Uop Tutorials/ Uophelp

    HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Present presentation with 10 to 12 PowerPoint® slides on a piece of artwork or image from the 1930s or 1940s that illustrates the Holocaust. • For Local Campus students, these are...

  57. Elie Wiesel

    and Romania to relocate to labor and death camps in Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel lived in the camps under deplorable, inhumane conditions, gradually starving, and was ultimately...

  58. Crimes Against Humanity

    occur. Unfortunately Numerous times the community communally turned a blind eye toward the butcher of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. The Holocaust was only but one of the first to expose the governments of the world's ignorance and lack of concern, as well as their continuing self-centeredness...

  59. HIS 308 UOP COURSES/UOPhelp

    HIS 308 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Holocaust Presentation For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Present presentation with 10 to 12 PowerPoint® slides on a piece of artwork or image from the 1930s or 1940s that illustrates the Holocaust. • For Local Campus students, these are...

  60. Optimism and Resilience Can Be Created to Alter a Journeys Perspective, Which in Turn Makes It More Rewarding.

    Benigni uses the character Joshua as a vehicle to portray a perspective of childlike innocence to symbolise the paradoxical theme of an optimistic Holocaust Comedy. Similarly in the poem ”Half Caste" written by John Agard, optimism is portrayed where Agard compares people of mixed races to positive mixed...