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…or being silent during the Holocaust, but the church has replied to the critics. The Israeli consul, Pinchas E. Lapide, has said that the Catholic Church under Pius XII was instrumental in saving 860,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. Also according to Lapide, Pius…

…that would deliberately promote a certain kind of behavior. These works are but paper and ink until we make our own interpretations of what is morally right. The fiction of living out a situation in an art work, say a film about the Holocaust, puts one…

…Throughout this paper I will discuss three articles that I chose that deal with the holocaust. I will summarize their contents and include a bit of my insight about how textbooks and articles differ in regards to how information is presented…

…and the Holocaust for example. An entire population of people--the Western European Jewish population--was nearly eradicated by Nazi Germany. As everyone knows, Jewish society has always been a fairly independent society of people; for thousands of years they've evolved…

…, genocide means: The systematic extermination or destruction of a political, racial, or cultural group1. When the word genocide is brought up, many people usually think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a massive tragedy, many don’t recall…

…of the Holocaust. His father was among the 5,000 Brest Jews rounded up by the Nazis. They were taken outside the city limits and shot or drowned in the river. His mother died in a Jewish hospital in Brest, while his brother Herzl passed on without a trace…

…by the survivors of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face their own "Why me?" question. However, many Holocaust survivors were able to reconcile their feelings of guilt or put it out of their minds. This solution was never viable for Billy Pilgrim. Billy's…

…of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face their own "Why me?" question. However, many Holocaust survivors were able to reconcile their feelings of guilt or put it out of their minds. This solution was never viable for Billy Pilgrim. Billy's guilt made life…

…. What happened when the Nazis came into power and persecuted the Jews in Germany, Austria and Poland is well known as the Holocaust. Here, human’s evil side provides one of the scariest occurrences of this century. Adolf Hitler and his Nazi counterparts…

…After the Holocaust, a new dichotomy emerged in the context of what it means to be in exile for the Jew. Many survivors, refugees, and their children found themselves living in new countries. This experience introduced a host of new emotions…