Essays Tagged: "concentration camps"

Prisoners of War in World War II

who did, and for those who survived as POWs will always regret it.The Prisoners of War were kept in concentration camps, where it was day to day constant dying and sufferingand separation of the famil ... eye out for one another. They were considered to be 'hostages' and were treated like the enemy.The concentration camps were not very large but were numerous. They contained about 500-600 warriors and ...

(2 pages) 89 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

A Black Cloud - thoughts about hatred

ring World War II, is a prime example of this. He took his hatredout on the Jews, forcing them into concentration camps. Another group that is a target ofhatred are the blacks. The Ku Klux Klan, other ...

(2 pages) 77 0 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Holocaust

young girl who her and her family had to go into hiding because they didn't want to be sent to the concentration camps. She also has suffered in hiding. It was no normal thing, like when you are at h ...

(2 pages) 89 0 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Japanese Canadians during the WWII

the World War II, there was more than 6 millions of Jews killed by Nazi, most of them killed in the concentration camp A place where selected groups of people confined, usually for political reasons. ... r kind, lovely, peace-keeper government also made the same mistake. They didn't sent Germans to the concentration camp, they sent Japanese Canadians to the Relocation Camp. Why did Canadian government ...

(3 pages) 56 0 3.7 Feb/1995

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Mark Mathabane's "The Road to Alexandra" exemplify the similarities in the holocaust and apartheid.

World War II thousands of Jews were persecuted simply because of their race. They were forced into concentration camps and ghettos, where-if not killed-they were forced to endure harsh labor and livi ... re harsh labor and living conditions. When World War II ended in 1945, the Jews were freed from the concentration camps. It seemed that the world realized that Hitler's idea of a 'perfect race' and th ...

(4 pages) 102 1 4.3 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Through Their Eyes. Speaks of Jewish children who were victims of the Holocaust

describe the fate of the Jews. Most of the Jewish killings were done by mobile death squads and in concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Majdanek. The nazi's most effective wa ... family's had been killed and the children had nothing.While many young Jewish children were sent to concentration camps, many dealt with the horrid fears experienced while hiding from the nazis. One c ...

(5 pages) 87 1 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

This is a brief summary of some of the horrid occurrences provoked by the Nazis.

d to change. The camps became overcrowded because of World War II, thus new camps were created. The concentration camps turned into an empire of slave labor. If they were unable to work, they were put ...

(1 pages) 47 2 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Holocaust in general. 2 pages of facts and the controversy that surrounds it.

ed a Jew, and therefore you must be killed. Before beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political oppon ...

(2 pages) 110 3 3.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

This essay is about the rescuing of Jews in the Holocaust and how the Jews hid and the trials and tribulations they went through during their hiding.

ple in the Holocaust did not live, in reality, there was a higher chance of dying from being in the concentration camps, starvation or anything of that nature, then there was of living. Living through ... people in hiding. If these people were caught hiding anyone, you would either die, or be sent to a concentration camp.Rescue and Hiding is one of the more popular subjects when discussing the Holocau ...

(6 pages) 105 3 3.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The children of the holocaust.

ere somewhat higher for older children, since they could potentially be assigned to forced labor in concentration camps and ghettos. The Jews were the main targets of the Nazis. The children could not ...

(1 pages) 63 3 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"A Tale of Two Cities"

alue of the above, after many years without them. They never forgot the hardships they faced in the concentration camps and Ghettos. They appreciated all the little things in life much more after what ...

(6 pages) 96 1 4.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870 - 1924 Driven by ideological zeal, Lenin reshaped Russia and made communism into a potent global force.

from the pages of Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed, became the author of mass terror and the first concentration camps ever built on the European Continent.Lenin was the initiator of the central dram ...

(5 pages) 88 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Night"by Elie Weisel

In reading, Night a Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of ... that you a just one of a million. These ideas are taken from pages 8 to 39 in the book, Night. The concentration camps seemed to bring out the worst in people because what happen was that all the peo ...

(6 pages) 98 1 2.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

how did life change for christians and jews during the rise of the s?

ome Jews, however, had the nerve to change and side with the Germans, with reasons such as avoiding concentration camps because they believed that the whole thing was ludicrous. There were also some C ...

(2 pages) 40 2 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Everyday life in Germany and Holland for jews

re left in the ghettos due to their parents getting killed or being captured by the s to be sent to concentration camps.Because Jews were captured and put into concentration camps, majority of them li ... re captured and put into concentration camps, majority of them lived there their whole life. In the concentration camps, the Jews were worked like slaves to earn a living. They didn't have many rights ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The Holocaust

nd the holocaust. All of my fathers family that remains had survived the Nazi's in Europe and their concentration camps. They all came to North America in search of a better life that is free of anti ... ived without losing someone very close to them.Many Jewish survivors who did survive these terrible concentration camps were then left with little possessions, and no place to live, so they had to tra ...

(3 pages) 46 1 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Albert Speer's claim in the Nazi regime.

him unprecedented control over German industry. In this role Speer utilized forced labour from the concentration camps of Germany to maintain his extraordinary revolution of German industry throughou ... es and his claims of ignorance of other areas. The Wolters Chronicle, his inhumanity while visiting concentration camps and Himmler's infamous speech on 6 October 1943 lead any historian to the conclu ...

(5 pages) 57 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Why did the majority of Germans conform to Nazi rule.

led popularity. The few opposition groups, and those groups targeted by Nazi ideology, were sent to concentration camps and a vigorous secret police assured that no opposition, especially not vocal, r ... immediately began exercising - even petty criminals such as swindlers and con-artists were sent to concentration camps without trial. Death sentences under Hitler increased in number and 80% were act ...

(7 pages) 119 3 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The Holocaust.

zi's did to the Jews would change not only Europe but the world forever.The Jews were coralled into concentration camps where experiments, mass gassings, and mass burnings were a tool of the Nazi army ... zi's did to the Jews would change not only Europe but the world forever.The Jews were coralled into concentration camps where experiments, mass gassings, and mass burnings were a tool of the Nazi army ...

(1 pages) 22 0 1.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"The Pianist"

g deported to the when a polish officer pulls him off the line leading to the trains leading to the concentration camps. This meant leaving his family to never see them again, constantly hiding from S ...

(3 pages) 67 0 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies