Why is it vital for students to study holocaust?
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We study this subject and others to "never forget" the horrible things people can do to each other and to keep them from happening again.  But alas, in my life time the world has allowed these things to go on over and over again!  Africa - Bosnia - the Middle East!  Other countries don't want to get involved until it affects them in the pocket.  Sadly, most wars through the centuries have been politically motivated rather than for the cause of humanity even though that is what is used as the pretext.\nStudy well, and make a difference!
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The following link is a good place to start as it has a lot of info about the Holocaust:
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Hi, I'm so sorry but this is one subject that cannot be simplified, I've tried long and hard to find sites that can be directed for young people, alas to no avail, so here is what we have to work with.\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\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\nThe Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\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\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nGood luck.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n\nThe 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 seven million.\n\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 Ustashas, over a million killed), 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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Ask the Jews if they thought war was necessary during WWII.\n\nAuschwitz\n\nAuschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Auschwitz was located in Poland. It was made up of 3 concentration camps in one. It was a camp that had forced work and killed people. The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 ¼ million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II.\n\nBergen-Belsen\n\nBergen-Belsen was near the villages of Bergen and Belsen in Germany. It was built in 1943 as a prison camp and a Jewish slave work camp. It was meant for 10,000 people but ended up holding 41,000. It did not have any gas chambers, but 37,000 prisoners died there. They died from diseases or just being over worked. Anne Frank, one of the most famous concentration camp victims today, died there.\n\nBuchenwald\n\nBuchenwald was one of the first and the biggest concentration camps. It was built in 1937 in Weimar, Germany. It held 20,000 prisoners and most of them worked as slaves in near by factories. There were no gas chambers in Buchenwald, but many died from disease, little food or the wrong kind of food (malnutrition), exhaustion, beatings, and executions. Prisoners were used to test the viruses and their vaccines.\n\nDachau\n\nDachau was the first Nazi concentration camp built. The camp was built in 1933. It was located in Dachau, Germany. The camp was meant to perfrom medical experiments on prisoners. These experiments left the people dead or disabled. The experiments and the harsh living conditions made it one of the most harsh camps. It was not designed as a killing camp though.\n\nSachsenhausen\n\nThis camp was located near the village of Sachsenhausen, in north Germany. It was built in 1936 as a part of 3 camps including Buchenwald and Dachau. The early prisoners of the camp were 10,000 Jewish people from Berlin and Hamburg. 200,000 people were in the camp and 100,000 of them ended up dying from disease, exhaustion, and over working in the local factories. A lot of the rest were brought to many other death camps.\n\nTheresienstadt\n\nThis camp was in north Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic). The camp later became a walled-in ghetto (a part of a city where Jewish people were forced to live) in 1941. After the people that were not Jews were evacuated, they started sending more Jews to the camp from Germany, Austria, Denmark, and other countries. Out of 14 1,000 Jewish people sent to Theresienstadt, 33,500 people died from the crowding in the ghettto, 88,000 Jews were sent to killing camps, from Theresienstadt, especially Auschwitz.\n\nI think you see my point.
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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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Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Dachau, & Triblinka are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.  Go to any Holocaust site and I'm sure they will provide detailed information about concentration camps--and perhaps the many camps for Displaced People who were used as slave laborers too.
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Some people says it's important to study history because it repeats itself.  Some people say it doesn't exactly repeat, but it rhymes.  In any case, it's important to understand what has gone on so you can understand what is happening.  \n\nFor example:\n\n1)  Our founding fathers studied history and knew what caused great empires and dynasties to fail.  They came up with the three branches of government that made our constitution really stable with our checks and balances.  \n\n2)  The world was horrified by the ethnic killing of the holocaust during Nazi Germany.  It took some time and effort, but the UN finally stepped in to stop the ethnic killing in Bosnia, Kosovo, and is working on Sudan.\n\nHere are some issues to think about as you ponder about the future...\n\nRemember the Crusades?  Those were the deadly campaigns between the Christians and Muslims.  Is that history repeating itself?\n\nWhat caused the Athenian Empire to crumble?  Was it the exceedingly expensive and protracted war against Sparta?  Did that have anything to do with Al Quaeda wanting to bankrupt the US by guerilla warfare?
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Have you not had any history lessons yet?  The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n(There is more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust\n\nAlso read the book "Diary of Anne Frank".  See if you can find a copy of the tv miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".  They were made from books written by Herman Wouk and had actual footage from the concentration camps, etc.\n\n\nTry these sites for movies about the holocaust:\nhttp://www.thirdreich.net/Holocaust_Movies.html\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm\nhttp://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list.html
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No - the holocaust started long before the whole world got involved in the war -- Just Google the word holocaust and you will learn the sad grisly truth
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To get out of poverty.\n\nTo study abroad and get a better perspective on their own country.\n\nTo escape genocide.\n\nTo seek political asylum.
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe, along with various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe 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 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 Jewry in particular.
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Try reading The Diary of Ann Frank.  That would give you some idea.  Schindler's List is a movie that tells a true story of a German who protected Jews.  If they were caught many of the same things happened to them as happened to the Jews.  \n\nIf there is a Holocaust Museum in your area try to visit it.  There is an excellent on in St. Petersburg, FL.\n\nI've attached some websites that should help you.
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It is important to the world. Leads to knowlege, new ideas, new advances, takes away ignorance, and leads to a better understanding of the world.
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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 was a Zionist movement as far back as the late 1800's but because of Hitler, thousands moved to what was then Palestine either before the Holocaust began in earnest or as survivors and created a Jewish state of Israel. The Arabs have been trying to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth ever since. \n\nSecondly, it was Nazi scientists who were ahead in the race to discover nuclear power and the destruction that goes with it. Again, many great scientists either got out of Germany when they could or came to the States after the war. Some, I believe, were even "smuggled" out of Nazi Germany during the war to work on nuclear power for us. Both the development of the Atom Bomb and the pivotal role in the war that Hitler started made the US a super power. Before that, the US army had been down-graded to almost non-existence after the first world war. \n\nWho knows how many great artists, musicians, scientists, doctors, etc. were murdered or prevented from being born because their parents were murdered during the Holocaust. Six million Jews is a lot of people. Six million non-Jews is, too. Who knows what these people might have been and might have done for the world if they had survived?\n\nI hope this helps. Good question!
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Here's a link for a good site if you want to research it.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust