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**The Holocaust**
To truly understand about the horror of the concentration camps, it is necessary to know about the Holocaust and the events leading up to it. Since the Holocaust is a long and detailed event, that I could not cover in one page, I will provide a basic backround. The Holocaust was a tragic event in history. Over 11 million lives were lost because of cruel racial prejudice. During world war two, the Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, encouraged prejudice against Jews and other “undesirables” things. The Nazis developed “The Final Solution”, a plan to get rid of all the Jews. They decided the most efficient way of doing that was to set up camps to exterminate them so they would not pass on their genes and disrupt the Nazis’ quest for the perfect race. The Nazis also set up ghettos, where Jews would live in the most horrible conditions. Jewish children soon could not go to schools with the other German children. Jewish businesses were forced to close, Jewish temples were burned and vandalized. Though the Nazis did not achieve their goal, they managed to kill millions of Jews and others in a display of cruel, sadistic, inhumane acts.

1. Here is a very detailed source with lots of information about everything that happened on the Holocaust(or at least most of it.) @http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/tp/holocaust.htm

2. This website is a fairly good sourc. Lots of usefull links on it, with the different areas including summary, an interactive timeline also a quiz to test your knowledge on the Holocaust, interesting stuff. @http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/

3. The Holocaust Chronicle is an incredibly organized website, the information on it is separeted by date(each year of the Holocaust is there with lots of information on each,), and it includes a Prologue and a Epilogue. @http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/

4. This is a very trustfull source, as you know. This is a slideshow that contains a few conteporany photographs and a few from the Holocaust. It is called "Remembering the Holocaust" and each picture contains a good small definition on the top right corner. @http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/06/world/20071006UKRAINE_14.html

5. That is a video, unfortunately not from youtube, because youtube is blocked, therefore I managed to find a good video on google videos. A short slideshow of the terrors of the holocaust in memory of all the jews that perished. @http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1941927693657483716

6. This is a different source, a book. The book is designed for secondary school and college student research, this work is a readable history and ready-reference guide to the Holocaust based on the most recent scholarship. []

7.Provides an overview of the events leading up to the Holocaust, discusses Hitler and the rise of Nazism, and highlights the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto and the trials of war criminals. []

8. Documents of Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust were kept locked for decades. Now that the archive is being made public, Scott Pelley brought three Holocaust survivors to examine their records. Really good video. []

9. True story, based on the life of Oskar Schindler, a German who was born and raised in Moravia (part of modern-day Czech Republic). Seems like a great movie for me.

Schindler's List (1993)
10. This film is full of love, loss, strength and hope -- one of the few modern Holocaust films worth watching and owning.

Defiance (2008)
The holocaust. The camps. The guetthos. The victims. The persecution. The resistance. The nazis.

The most interesting thing that I've learned was that Schindler's list was the list that saved lots of people. Schindler was a very skilled man, not just coming from a fairly small town and becoming such an important icon in the world's history. He's skills were impressive he's persuasion skills involving all kinds of different methods. Very impressive. Very interesting.

I've also learned that people that come from nothing can make something huge, as well as Schindler did I also think that as he was very skilled and with just a little encouragement, and as the psychologist that survived the Holocaust said, when Freud says that the main reason for life is sex, the guy says that the main reason is a purpose, and Schindler had a purpose. Seemingly a very good and necessary purpose, I am a fan of that guy.

Why the Holocaust? Because it had my attention turned to it, after seeing a quick overview in almost all subjects that were available to be researched the holocaust was the most heartbreaking one, I had to look into to it to see why did they decided to do such horrible and unnecessary things. Just pure evil and crazy acts that aren't human at all. Enjoy life, while you have it.

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Christian Rocha