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Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Holocaust (Assignment 1)

Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928.

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The holocaust killed aproximately 6 million Jews. The Holocaust occured in 1933; '''Holocaust" is a greek word that means "sacrifice by fire." In the Holocaust, Germans not only killed Jews, but also Gypsies, disabled people, and some slavic people. Germany first had 9 million Jewish people, until they started killing 2 out of every 3 Jews. They also killed 200,000 gypsies and 200,000 disabled people.

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