… meaning "whole" and Kaustos meaning "burned." It was used in early times it described the sacrifice that was burnt entirely on an altar. Many people who were "sacrificed" during World War II were also burnt in crematories and furnaces, hence, naming…

… Many would answer this with, "The Nazis killed six million Jews." People might be amazed with this tragic fact, but it’s hard to comprehend each individual death. In order to better understand this atrocity we must put ourselves on a more persona…

… in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire. It is derived form the Greek words holo, which means whole, and caustos, which means burned. In the way we use it today it means any widespread human disaster, but when most of us hear the word…

… different countries where held as prisoners in concentration and death camps. The main victims of these camps were the Jews. They were discriminated because of their religion and there way of life. The number one reason why concentration and death…

… were killed and murdered "The Holocaust." The word 'holocaust' means, a great raging fire that consumes in it's path all that lives. In the years between 1933 and 1945, the Jews of Europe were marked for total annihilation. The Germans under Adolf Hitle…

… humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other "lesser races". This war came to a head with the "Final Solution" in 1938. One of the end…

… The discrimination began, as Jews were not allowed in certain stores. Signs were posted banning them from a variety of places. Later stores owned by Jews were shut down. Soon, a nationwide boycott was established, and Jews lost nearly…

… impact upon Jews and Judaism in the twentieth century. The Holocaust, which was the systematic, state sponsored, murder of Jews was a terrible loss to humanity and would have had a huge impact on Jews and Judaism in the twentieth century. In total…

… toward the Jewish people, the different kinds of torture they suffered, and the many survival problems they had in staying alive, were their most horrifying moments they could imagine. The Jews lived in complete horror. All the Jews' possession…

… Prentice Hall Reviewed by: The House of Lim by Margery Wolf is a first hand account of the daily lives and family structure of a Chinese family living in Taiwan in the early 1960s. Margery Wolf, a wife of an anthropologist who specializes in…