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…families died, Otto Frank published the famous “Diary of Anne Frank.” Anne Frank and her diary make one of the most influential and well-known remembrance stories of the Holocaust. Annelies Frank was born on June 12, 1929. She was born in Frankfurt am Main…

…Night By Elie Wiesel Hope or despair? The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a first-person narrative about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of over 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II The book tells…

…Night is a remarkable document because it shows how much people can endure. It states the obvious to draw attention to the text's treatment of the Holocaust, but this is perhaps its greatest claim to our attention. There are countless books, articles…

…of the most gruesome, horrifying examples of this human flaw of being easily persuaded seem to fit hand in hand: United States enslavement of Africans and future African Americans, and the Holocaust. Though these two events are not the same, they have many…

…One of the saddest aspects of the Holocaust was not how many lives were lost, but how many souls were lost. Those lucky enough to survive Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and the like came out changed men and women, and not for the better. While some…

…During the Holocaust, thousands of jews were taken from their homes and forced to work in concentration camps or killed. Once they arrived at these camps, they were dehumanized in almost every way possible by the Nazis. Somehow though many…

…on the autobiographical book about the years of the Holocaust by the late Wladyslaw Szpilman, one of the greatest pianists in the world. The Pianist is a great movie on a powerful subject, directed with such inspiration and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of the screen…

…about the Jews failure to defend themselves? Respected Sir, I am Elie Wiesel, a Jew, born in Romania in 1928. I wish to bring to your esteemed notice an account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled male violence six million Jews…

…Although many Holocaust books often have an impact on the reader, Night contains a very real insight into the hardships of maintaining one's faith, suffering from physical exhaustion, and trying to survive. All of which, during those times, was very…

…"All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust." Sixty years after the evacuation of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz no longer is recognized for its years of hatred and death but for its liberation…