The Holocaust 4
The word Holocaust comes from two Greek words, holos, meaning "whole" and Kaustos meaning "burned." It was used in early times it described the sacrifice that was burnt entirely on an altar. Many people who were "sacrificed" during World War II were also burnt in crematories and furnaces, hence, naming this mass murder of humans The Holocaust. The Holocaust, to many, is better known as Adolf Hitler's, the German chancellor of German during the mid 1930's into early 1940's, attempt to annihilate culture and invalids of his choice, mainly people of Jewish background. His party was called the Nazis and during their reigning period (1933-1945), tyranny spread deep into Europe. Many innocent people were persecuted and murdered. Of the people whom were murdered, the Jewish led the death toll. Nazis slayed six million Jews. Among others were Soviets, Poles, Slavs, gypsies, the mentally or physically challenged, homosexuals, and other religious dissidents, such as communists, socialists, trade unionists, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The number of deaths has been estimated in the vicinity of fourteen to eighteen million people. By 1945, the end of World War II, two out of every three European Jews had been murdered. The concentration camp is
Of the few that survived, a few stories were to be told about the disasters and horror of the Holocaust. One of the most common stories told is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was the second child of Otto and Edith Frank, both from respected German-Jewish families. In 1933 she and her family left Nazi Germany and settled in Amsterdam. She started her diary when she turned thirteen. It was a gift from her parents. In July 1942 they and another family, the Van Daans, went into hiding in the sealed-off back rooms of an Amsterdam office building in order to avoid arrest by German forces. In August 1944 their hiding place was revealed, and they were taken into custody. Anne died in a German concentration camp at Belsen, two months before the war was over. Less than one year later, her Dutch diary, describing her two sorrowful years in seclusion, was found in the hiding place. Published in 1947 as Het Achterhuis (The House Behind), it was titled in the United States as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Because the book was completely based on her own diary, her thoughts and emotions were made more evident, making the story a lot more moving than if it were to be told second hand. Another very touching story told from the Holocaust is the novel that won that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 called Night, by Elie Wiesel (1928-). Elie was born in Sighet, Romania. Although he lived
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