Remembering the Holocaust

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This paper introduces the topic of the Holocaust with a focus on its remembrance and lessons. In particular, the author stresses the importance of transmitting the history and lessons of the holocaust on to future generations to ensure that an event so evil never occurs again. The paper describes actual incidents perpetrated by the Nazis and examines Jewish resistance movements.

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"The Jews did attempt to fight back, even though we do not hear about that very much. One resistance fighter was Anna Heilman, who helped smuggle minute amounts of gunpowder out of a plant at Auschwitz to help create a bomb to destroy one of the crematoriums at the concentration camp. She remembers, "We smuggled the gunpowder from the factory into the camp. It was smuggled in tiny little pieces of cloth, tied up with a string. Inside our dresses we had what we called a little boit'l (small sack), a pocket, and the boit'l was where everybody hid their little treasures, wrapped in pieces of cloth" (Rittner and Roth 132). The Nazis never noticed the smuggling, and the bomb was a success, a crematorium was destroyed shortly before the end of the war."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Berkowitz, Irene. "The Girl with Wooden Shoes." Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust. Ed. Anita Brostoff and Sheila Chamovitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 101-101.
• Blum, Arnold. "Dachau." Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust. Ed. Anita Brostoff and Sheila Chamovitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 50-54.
• Editors. "The Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2007. 19 April 2007. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005143>
• Medoff, Rafael. "America, the Holocaust and the Abandonment of the Jews." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 40.4 (2003): 350+.
• Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth, eds. Women and the Holocaust. 1st ed. St. Paul, MN: Paragon Press, 1993.

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