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Selection procedure of Hungarian Jews at the Auschwitz camp on 26 May 1944, where the Nazis chose whom to kill immediately and whom to use as slave labor or for medical experimentation. The entrance to the main camp is in the background. Between 1.1 and 1 |
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There are 12 summaries on The Holocaust.
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 Holocaust, The Summary
10,597 words, approx. 35 pages
 From the French Revolution to the 1860s, the Jews of western and central Europe experienced political emancipation. Unencumbered by ties to an agrarian way of life, many Jews also experienced economic prosperity and social mobility during the following... summary from source:
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2,972 words, approx. 10 pages
Holocaust A number of philosophical issues arise relating to the destruction of most of the Jewish community in Europe in the twentieth century by the Nazis and their allies. This event has been labeled the Holocaust Van Gennep, 1965. Rubenstein,... summary from source:
 Holocaust Summary
1,720 words, approx. 6 pages
The word holocaust is derived from the biblical Greek term holocauston, meaning a "burnt offering" made in sacrifice to God. The term came to be widely used in the early 1970s to refer to the mass extermination of the Jews in the gas... summary from source:
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6,253 words, approx. 21 pages
 the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.” The... summary from source:
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 Holocaust Guilt Summary
1,073 words, approx. 4 pages
World War II profoundly affected American society and culture, not least because of the Nazi genocide of European Jews. In his 1993 speech at the dedication of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., President Bill Clinton expressed the... summary from source:
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857 words, approx. 3 pages
Over the span of four nights, between April 16 and 19, 1978, approximately 120 million Americans watched at least some of an NBC miniseries that graphically portrayed the genocide of six million Jews during the Nazi era. Commercial prime-time... summary from source:
Holocaust Summary
760 words, approx. 3 pages
The Holocaust is a term mainly used to describe the systematic, state-sponsored oppression and killing of about 6m. men, women and children—above all Jews—by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1939 and 1945. The Hebrew term Shoah... summary from source:
Holocaust Summary
278 words, approx. 1 pages
Systematic state-sponsored killing of Jews and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. Fueled by anti-Semitism, the Nazi persecution of Jews began soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 with a boycott of... summary from source:
Holocaust Summary
155 words, approx. 1 pages
(Hebrew ‘Shoah’). The destruction of the European Jewish community between 1933–1945. The Nazi government of Germany was committed to *anti-Semitic policies. Until the declaration of war in 1939, Jews were systematically excluded from... summary from source:
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 The Holocaust Summary
20,584 words, approx. 69 pages
The Holocaust (from the Greek á½λÏκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: ×"ש×××"), Churben (Yiddish: ××ר×'×), is the term generally used to describe the killing of... 
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