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    The Warsaw Ghetto The Holocaust was a horrible time for many people, but it was worse for the Jews. They had to live in towns where they were not wanted and when the war began they had to go into hiding or they would be captured and murdered. Jews that did not escape in time, or those who were found in hiding, were sent to ghettos before they were sent to concentration camps. One of these ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto. Use of the Ghetto The ghetto was used to contain the Jews in an area where they

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    criticized for the things they did. Then the Jewish became second class citizens, but they were still a loud in Germany. After that they were forced to leave Germany. Finally it was decided that the jews were to be exterminated entirely from europe. (Lace 13) First they were sent to ghettos but that was just until they got the death camps set up but even Jewish men and women worked at setting up the places that would soon become their death place. Ghettos were districts (often enclosed) that the Jews

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    The Second World War

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    gaseous exterminations did not come to fruition until the Wannsee Conference of 1942. IT was at this conference that the genesis of the Final Solution took place. It was here that Heydrich was given full reign to concoct a ‘final solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’ that had plagued the 3rd Reich from its inception in 1933. When the NSDAP was elected to office in 1933, the party ideologies and program differed substantially from the policies and implemented after the Wannsee Conference in 1942. Historical

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    The Lvov Ghetto was a temporary living space established by the Nazis for the “Inferior Race”. This race contained homosexuals, Poles, Jews, Slovaks, disabled people, and anyone who was viewed as “different”. This essay will be reviewing the history of Jews in Lvov before it became a ghetto, other history about the ghetto, and the main deaths that occurred in Lvov. The Lvov Ghetto lasted from November 1941 - June 1943. Jews were very important to Lvov, Ukraine before the holocaust struck. There

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    Schindler's List

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    lives of many innocent Jewish workers by protecting them from extermination by the SS. The movie includes a character named Amon Göth, who was the overseer of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp. In the movie, he stands atop his balcony and fired his gun at Jews working below, killing many with seemingly random reasoning. The movie also features Jewish prisoners of concentration camps and residents of ghettos serving as higher-ranking officials, such as policemen or Jewish council

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    movie The Pianist portray Jewish experience in Warsaw, Poland during the Second World War? Plan of Investigation: This investigation will evaluate the events that occurred in Poland during the Second World War, then compare it to the movie The Pianist to conclude whether the movie accurately portrays Jewish experience in Poland during that time period. To do so, we will evaluate key events such as Poland being invaded, the Polish-Jews being relocated into overcrowded ghettos, being sent to concentration

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    “The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city's Jews to live. (ushmm.org)” They believed that they would get treated well wherever they moved to. Ghetto was a place Jews lived in during the Holocaust. There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The SS used the ghetto as a showcase to disguise the horrible treatment that they put the Jews through. Ghettos

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    Introduction The holocaust was a genocide to make a supposed superior race, it was put into place by the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” wiping out more than 50% of the worlds Jewish population at that time (around six million), 17 million victims in total died including Ethnic Poles, Soviet Slavs, Soviet POWs and many different groups of people. Nazi Germany put the Holocaust into action on the 30th of January 1933 aided by their allies. Creating the Enemy One of the main goals of the

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    Kristallnacht devastated Jewish communities by destroying social networks, fueling anti-semitism and stigma, and propagating harmful propaganda, which, along with the social ostracization enforced by the Nuremberg laws, escalated the creation of ghettos that isolated Jewish people and severed their connections to society. After the appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany and the subsequent rise of the Nazi Party, Jewish people faced harsh social conditions due to the enactment of harsh laws

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    their humanity and give hope to others. Jewish people fought against the Nazis, and did not always use violence. They used spiritual resistance to rebel without actually fighting. One example of spiritual resistance is the cultivation of secret libraries kept in many ghettos throughout Germany and Poland. One author states “Germans forbade religious services in most ghettos, so many Jews prayed and held ceremonies in secret … In Warsaw alone, in 1940, 600 Jewish prayer groups existed.” (“Spiritual Resistance”)

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