what was the holocaust?
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It was a time during the 1940's (WWII)where Hitler and the Natiz murdered over 12 million (I think) people (6 million were jews) because of their beliefs, hair and eye colour, and stuff like that.  I'm not really sure why people don't belive in it though....
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1. That the Holocaust really did happen.\n2. The people it affected (not just the Jews).\n3. When and where it took place (time line and maps).\n4. The major players (Hitler, etc.)\n5. Sensitivity and respect for those who are different.\n\nGood Luck!
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The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\n\nhttp://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html\n\nhttp://www.shamash.org/holocaust/\n\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html\n\nhttp://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/\n\nThe Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.\n\nhttp://www.holocaust-history.org/\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0312\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/\n\nOur site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust.  Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles.  Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\n\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nThe image galleries on this site have been grouped into ten sections for your convenience. Click on the sample thumbnail photo to view all of the galleries in any section.\n\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm#1\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany.
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"House" is a generous term.\n\n"At first, Poles were imprisoned and died in the camp. Afterwards, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, and prisoners of other nationalities were also incarcerated there. Beginning in 1942, the camp became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which was committed against the European Jews as part of Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of that people. The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival."
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The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though it did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jews in particular. Some historians credit Elie Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning.\n\nwant to know more.. check it out..
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The Holocaust was more than a Jewish event. Records kept by the Germans prove they exterminated millions of Communists, Czechs, Greeks, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, mentally and physically handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, trade unionists, Ukrainians, Yugoslavians, prisoners of war of many nations, and still others whose identity may never be recognized. Their victims, according to one survivor of four different concentration camps, "were of some thirty nationalities, from Nepalese to Andorrans, and of a variety of racial and linguistic stocks ranging from Basques to Buriats and from Ladinos to Lapps". When people were not immediately exterminated, they were sent to work and/or concentration camps. There the prisoners were divided into six penal categories and given patches on their clothing for identification purposes. Ordinary criminals were assigned green; political prisoners wore red; black was worn by asocials (slackers, prostitutes, procurers, etc.); homosexuals wore pink; conscientious objectors wore purple, and the Jewish people wore yellow.\n\nOh and by the way Hitler was NOT of the jewish faith ... Hitler, himself, was a Catholic.
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There is not an exact date for the Holocaust, because no one would know when that was or what criteria to use.  Would be the date when the first person was killed, taken into custody, had their homes burned, etc, etc?\n\nFor the Holocaust talk of a "time period" rather than date. \n\nThe "Holocaust" refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945 (V-E Day), the end of the war in Europe.\n\nSoooo, if you would HAVE to have a starting date it would be January 30, 1933.
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Holocaust is true???? Exactly how many people died??? was it millions or thousands???\n\nWho ever says that Holocaust is as true as 2 and 2 makes 4 is totally out of mind. My friend! History is something that has always been researched into. People have always had theories about history. If it is something painful, then US Nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was also very painful but it was researched and documented to every detail and it is commemorated even till today.\n\nJews have their own ways of controlling the world. they are so few in number but they control every one else's life line i.e. Money. They can even buy the minds of governments in Europe not to let anyone speak what to say research about this event in history.\n\nI HAVE A QUESTION: ISNT IT THAT HOLOCAUST WAS USED AS A RATIONALE TO CAPTURE A PIECE OF LAND IN ISRAEL TO MAKE A JEWISH STATE WHICH WOULD BE A CENTRAL COORDINATION PLACE FOR ALL JEWS??????
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Persecution of the jewish faith.\nHitler was after power and wanted all possessions to belong to him.  \nOthers were also persecuted, such as Catholics or Polish citizens.  \nHorrible war.  \nShindler's List to me shows that not all germans were bad, just frightened of Hitler and his army.  \n\nAnother movie to help you would be "The Boys from Brazil."  It was a book first and I believe it was written by Ira Levin.  \n\nAnother book would be "Exodus" by Leon Uris.\n\nBest of wishes on your essay.
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The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to eleven million. Many non-Jewish people were killed as well.\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), Serbs (targeted mostly by Croat Nazi Puppet Ustashas, from 100,000 to 700,000 killed; estimates disputed), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is on April 15, 2007 \nHolocaust Remembrance Day -- Israel honors the memory of the Six Million by learning about their heroism in the face of inhumanity, and exploring the roots of anti-Semitism
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I believe you mean "Shoah", which is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. Just remember to substitute Shoah for Holocaust (or vice versa) as you read the article. \nIf you want more sources, look up Holocaust; there will be a lot of information.
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In 9th Grade World History, we had to watch doumentaries on the Holocaust. It showed footage of the mass graves, emaciated bodies being dumped into the pits; other prisoners being forced to do the dumping and burying. It showed the crematories and pictures of the experiments. It was horrible. The teacher even warned us a week beforehand, and told us we didn't have to watch it if our parents signed a form saying they didn't want us to. I thought if these people went through something so horrible, the least I could do was to try to understand just how horrible it was. So, I watched it. \n\nAnyway, the year before, I had gone to Europe, and one of the places I visited was Dachau (near Munich, one of the first concentration camps). There were pictures and all at Dachau about what went on, but nothing like this documentary. So, when we watched the films in class, I remembered where I had gone, and I realized what had happened on ground that I had actually walked over. It gave me nightmares. Horrible nightmares... But I'll never forget it, and if I could go back, I would still watch it. No matter how bad it was for me, it was infinitely worse for them.\n\nI still don't understand how so many people could have believed that it was OK to kill and dehumanize so many people. I don't get it. I know all the theories and all the reasoning, but it still doesn't "sink in." It was just so vast and incomprehensible. What scares me even more is that there are still groups of people here and there that glorify the Nazi movement and agree with it, even try to emulate it in some ways. There are people that don't believe it happened... and that just blows my mind.
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science and the holocaust? \n\nno.  The holocaust was a direct result of a madman and his philosophies.
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The Iron curtain is the isolation imposed by the cold war between URSS and EU after World War II.  The holocaust happened during World War II.  Some concentration camps were in Germany, but ohter were in Austria.  Not to mistake the Iron curtain with the Berlin Wall, although both are symbols of the same political reality.
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Scorched Earth\nThey werent the only ones to use it\nThe Nazis did it also.