Holocaust Aftermath

Holocaust Aftermath

In 1945, Soviet troops and American troops entered the concentration camps. They found many disturbing things. They found piles of corpses, bones and human ashes. They also found a lot of survivors. Jews and non-Jews suffered form disease and starvation. Any Jews feared to go back to there homes because of the hatred of Jews. Thousands of holocaust survivors moved west to allies territory and stayed in hundreds of refuge centers and The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. France, Great Britain, and United States occupied these camps. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided the survivors with food and clothing. In 1945, 41,000 people immigrated to the US. About 28,000 were Jews. Many other Jewish refugees immigrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South Africa.

1. This article was about bullying. There was many statistics about the how half of bullies are involved in fights and carry weapons to school. The beginning of the article told a story about how a firefighter through a chair at a coworkers face because he was made fun of his sexual orientation. Even 30 percent of girl bullies have reported of carrying weapons at school.

2. Provocative is the only word I had trouble with. I believe it means escalate badly.

3. How bullying leads to school shootings

4. I could accept the fact that bullying leads to school shootings because a kid can only take so much. It was hard to believe the statistics of kids who carry weapons to school, I haven’t really heard of anything like that.

5. I didn’t really think much of this article. It had some interesting stats though. The article should concern me though considering I will be going to school for two more years and a shooting could happen any time. The article also doesn’t change