Guys and Dolls takes place around 1950. Adelaide sings: He bought me the fur mink five winters ago. And the gown the following fall. Then the necklace, the bag, the gloves, and the hat, That was late '48, I recall.. Guys and Dolls takes place around 1950. Adelaide sings: He bought me the fur mink five winters ago And the gown the following fall Then the necklace, the bag, the gloves, and the hat, That was late '48, I recall..
Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & Overview. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the general term for the network of Nazi concentration and labor camps, established near the Polish city of Oswiecim. Together this complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold upwards of 150,000 inmates at any given time.
1 The term Holocaust, originally from the Greek word holokauston which means sacrifice by fire, refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word Shoah, which means devastation, ruin, or waste, is also used for this genocide. 2  In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. 3  Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.