Holocaust 2
“The holocaust is a Greek word (holo “whole”; caustos “burned”) which is a religious rite in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire.”(Encarta) In modern world the word holocaust refers to any widespread of human disaster, especially means slaughter of Jewish population in Germany and in German-controlled states. When somebody hears “holocaust” the first thing that comes to their mind is the killing of Jews in Poland and that Poles did not do anything to help Jewish people. It is not true, because “not just Poles and Jews, but Poland’s Germans, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Byelorussians, Tartars, Gypsies, Catholic, Orthodox, Uniate, Protestant, Judaic and Moslem were all to pass through the mills of Hitler’s and Stalin’s human engineering” (Lukas, p ix), and many Polish people risked their lives to save Jews. Also, there were many other great crimes and murders, such as the killing of the Armenians by the Turks or murders of Russians by Stalin, but the Holocaust stood out as the “only sysmatic and organized effort by a modern government to destroy a whole race of people.”(Seymor) The Germans under Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of all Germans troubles and were a threat to the Germans and Chris
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Approximate Word count = 1181
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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