The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

• Abja Gymnasium

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• The word holocaust itself comes from ancient
  Greek and means destroying something by burning.
  The term became known after the war in 1948.
  Scientists, historians and politicians have been
  discussing the reasons of the Holocaust. It is
  hard to understand why and how it all happened.

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• The Holocaust is the term generally used to
  describe the genocide of approximately six
  million European Jews during World War II, as
  part of a program of deliberate extermination
  planned and executed by the National Socialist
  regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. The word
  "holocaust" has been used since the 18th century
  to refer to the violent deaths of a large number
  of people.

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• Other groups were persecuted and killed by the
  regime, including the Roma Soviets, particularly
  prisoners of war ethnic Poles other Slavic
  people the disabled gay men and political and
  religious dissidents, such as Jehovahs
  witnesses.

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• The Holocaust is a total disaster. Men, women,
  children were killed with no mercy. There were
  several concentration camps, the the largest of
  Nazy Germany's concentration camps was located
  in German-occupied southern Poland in
  Auschwitz-Birkenau.
• The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest
  extermination and concentration camp, in January
  1945. In the following months, the Soviets
  liberated additional camps in the Baltic states
  and in Poland

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• Estonia can relate to the disaster of the
  Holocaust. In the years of 1941 and 1942 about
  1000 Jews of Estonia were killed. In the years of
  1942, 1943, Jews of the Czeck and Germany were
  brought to Estonia and killed here. The map of
  the nationalities brought to Auschwitz let us
  know that some of the people from Narva and
  Viljandi also arrived.

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The gate of the concentration camp in Klooga,
Estonia
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• The victims of the Holocaust are annually
  remembered on 27th January.
• We cannot change the past, but we have to know
  what happnend to prevent something like this to
  happen in the future.

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Natan Rapoport Uprising in the ghetto of Warsaw