Holocaust Informative Speech

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Today I write to discuss a very important topic that took place from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. This catastrophe is called The Holocaust, it killed at least five to six million Jews from a population of 9 million many of which were enslaved, beaten or killed. Anne Frank’s diary, a primary source, teaches its readers of what it was like to be a Jew in germany but not only that having to live through the Holocaust.

Learning about the Holocaust, I have learned many facts. Therefore, I would like to share some of the facts that I have been educated from this massacre. The first fact is how Jews were not the only ones who were discriminated but also gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, and anybody who was not part of the perfect aryan race.

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