...remove this darkness from one of the most tragic events to ever happen in history, the Holocaust. There is a classic German legend about a man named Faust. He was a highly successful scholar but was dissatisfied with his life. His legend has created stories of his success in art and music, but the legendary of this man doesn’t end there. According to the legend, Faust sold his soul to the devil in exchange for vast earthly rewards. Millions of innocent Jews were killed by this so called legend, driven by a force of madness and evil of his own ancestors. In his own sick twisted mind he saw an opportunity to solve the problem once and for all by killing off the Jews. It is said that the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or even inaccurate representations. With so much controversy and doubt on the Holocaust did or did it not really happen, everyone has their own point-of-view. Ironically for the people of Germany this legend had an all too real comparison to true events on its history. According to stories from survivors the voices of the dead can still be heard crying out for help. There are many authors who wrote books with great detail on the Holocaust, giving their perspective point of view on this tragic event. During the Holocaust it is said that over six million Jews suffered countless amounts of obscenity throughout the history of time. In the book Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone, the author describes the legendary of one man, the will to survive, the...
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...The Holocaust was a state-sponsored, bureaucratic and systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis under the command of Adolf Hitler believed that Germans were racially superior while the Jews were considered as an inferior group whose presence in the new state would derail the expansionist desires of Adolf Hitler. The Jews were also considered as a threat to the German racial community. During the Holocaust the German authority also targeted other groups that were perceived to be racially inferior. On the contrary, the big slave trade is considered as the business that involved buying and selling of people, especially from Africa, for profit. These people were enslaved in the Capitalist Europe and were subjected to doing menial works such as tending the fields and working in mines (Franklin, 2000). Comparison of the Holocaust and the Slave Trade...
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...What is indifference? Indifference is defined as a lack of interest, concern, or sympathy. Indifference or lack of interest could come at a terrible cost. For example, if one shows no concern for the hungry child on the street, who will be there to protect this child, to feed this child. Spreading awareness is a significant step in fighting indifference. Sandra Buford, director of diversity for the Massachusetts Port Authority, speaking about battling indifference stated “Education is critical to challenge indifference. Some of the solutions that we’ve been thinking about really emphasize education and awareness regarding history” (Four Ways to Battle Indifference). In two speeches on entirely different topics, one by Elie Wiesel who had survived the Holocaust and one by Susan B. Anthony, who "dedicated her life to women's suffrage", show us how harmful indifference can be to our society....
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...What is indifference? Indifference is defined as a lack of interest, concern, or sympathy. Indifference or lack of interest could come at a terrible cost. For example, if one shows no concern for the hungry child on the street, who will be there to protect this child, to feed this child. Spreading awareness is a significant step in fighting indifference. Sandra Buford, director of diversity for the Massachusetts Port Authority, speaking about battling indifference stated “Education is critical to challenge indifference. Some of the solutions that we’ve been thinking about really emphasize education and awareness regarding history” (Four Ways to Battle Indifference). In two speeches on entirely different topics, one by Elie Wiesel who had survived the Holocaust and one by Susan B. Anthony, who "dedicated her life to women's suffrage", show us how harmful indifference can be to our society....
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...Psychological Effects of the Holocaust In February of 1933, the Nazi Party ruthlessly started to persecute Jews simply because they were Jews. Under the Nazi Party, Jews were "worthless", and considered "animals". As time went on in the Holocaust, the physiological impact of the Nazi hatred demoralized the Jews. Jews were shot as target practice, starved (mostly to death), and forced to kill their own kind to save themselves; it was just about one's own survival- no one else mattered. Family and love soon became words that people no longer understood. In anyone’s life, it is important to have a strong family and the bond of love, but in the Holocaust, Jews were stripped away from the aspect of love and family. Many the Holocaust survivors can still recall horrendous memory's of their experience in the concentration camps. When people were in the concentration camps, the trauma was much worse; people were not mentally and emotionally strong to enough to endure the pain that it caused. In the Holocaust the Nazi Party caused psychological pain of the Jewish people to ensure their complete dominance. The psychological impact was so great that the Jewish people in the time and thereafter were scarred for life. At the time of the Holocaust, the Nazi Party used mental and physical psychology to undermine the Jewish people. When Jews were transferred into concentration camps like Auschwitz, other Jews already there were placed in charge of them. When they arrived, SS...
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...Title What is the Holocaust? What was life like before it happened? Did the Jewish people really break any laws? How was school before and during this period of time? What happened to make Adolf Hitler choose a political career? The holocaust was an awful period of time in history. This happened in 1939-1941, when Adolf Hitler was elected president. Hitler had a grudge against Jews for no good reason. He had a hard childhood and not strong relationships. At school the children learned math, reading, writing, and history. Parents had degrees and worked life everyone else. During the holocaust the German army got rid of the children’s textbooks and got new ones that were approved of. These were filled with lessons that approved of being a Nazi. Teachers were forced to say all good things about the Nazis and the army. A lot of teachers quit because of this rule. All the Jewish teachers were forced to be fired. Once the Holocaust really kicked in Jews were not allowed at schools, if they were caught, they got taken to a camp or the “ghettos”...
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...as a victim of the Holocaust. The story being told to the viewers gives people a new perspective and view on one of our world’s biggest tragedies in history; The Holocaust. Most people have heard of the history being the Holocaust, but not many have heard the story from a person, who actually experienced and suffered through all the horror during the time. Weissmann was only fifteen years old when the Nazi army invaded her home in Poland. She survived years living inside concentration camps, where she suffered the harsh conditions along with thousands of other captured Jewish people. The Nazi army took away everything from this poor fifteen year old girl including her entire family, her teenage years, and her hope to live. Now 65 years later, Gerda Weissmann Klein has decided to share her story with the many who choose to listen to it and understand everything that happened to her during this time. One Survivor Remembers was a very eye-opening film to watch and different things done by the creators of the film helped bring Weissmann’s story to life in the minds of many of the viewers....
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the...
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...My interest for movies cannot be simply explained. Films are genuinely unique, odd, engaging and quite enjoyable. One film that I came across recently that also displays the horrific themes from the holocaust is “Boy in stripped Pyjamas”. ‘Boy in stripped Pyjamas’ is essentially ‘Night’ but from a different perspective. For example, ‘Night’ is from a Jewish boy perspective, while ‘Boy in Stripped Pyjamas’ is set from a German boy perspective, during the Holocaust. The main character “Bruno” a German boy, is clueless about the holocaust and Jews. After leaving the city, Bruno and his family live in a quiet, country, cottage. Exploring the remote areas, Bruno stumbles across a concentration camp and tries to make new friends. Clueless about the...
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...what’s going on around him: The Final solution or The Holocaust. The two share interests through innocent eyes that are soon brought to a revelation. Although, the boys live different lives they find a common ground to stand on; pointing out all of their differences. Bruno was an upper class German during The Holocaust. Being a small child took away the awareness of what had been going on around him. Before his family was subject to relocation for their father’s career, next door to Auschwitz, his family was life was perfect . This quote provides a bit of insight on that: “ We don’t have the luxury of thinking… Some people make all of the decisions for us” Bruno’s mother, page 14. That all came tumbling down upon relocating. Bruno longer had any friends. He explored the home for a pastime. He’d discovered a farm (Auschwitz) from his window, which warmed a pot of curiosity for him to boil. One day, Bruno took a long walk to the fence that separated him from Auschwitz… Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi camp and the most publicized for its mass killing center that’s ever been created. Auschwitz is responsible for about 1.1 million murders of Jews during The Holocaust. It was first established in May of 1940 and finalized after the completion of all three parts on January 27, 1945… “So we’re here at Out-With because someone said out with the people before us?” Page 25, a statement made by Bruno to his big sister Gretel. The Holocaust ignites different views amongst many people. It also...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish Europeans during World War Two. The Nazi Party in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, exterminated about two thirds of the Jewish population residing in Europe. The Nazis placed the blame of all of Germany’s problems on the Jewish people. The Nazis referred to the holocaust as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” This paper will discuss the terrible things that happened throughout the holocaust by the Nazi party to the Jewish population. The holocaust was not the first plan by the Nazis to get rid of the Jewish race in Europe. Their first plan was to deport all of the Jews to German colonies such as Tanganyika and South West Africa (90 facts). Hitler was against these places because he argued that no place where “so much blood of heroic Germans hath spilled” should be made available as a residence for the worst enemies of the Germans. Madagascar became the most seriously discussed location for a Jewish relocation. Madagascar was perfect because it was a remote location that had unfavorable conditions so it would hasten deaths. This plan was approved by Hitler in 1938 and was carried out until the mass murder began in 1941(Facts about the holocaust). This first step was an important psychological step on the path to the mass murders of the Holocaust. Concentration camps were where the Nazis kept Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally disabled. These camps were founded...
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...Europeans had a drive to set out and help other nations, and to civilize them, and bring them to their full potential... or did they? Throughout the 19th century, Europeans had become the most powerful industrial powers, and set off to conquer and carve their piece of the globe. Europeans expanded in brutal and unfair ways hurting natives of many countries. The desire to civilize and help other people in European Imperialism was not serious because European countries had major economic expansion and the control of foreign resources, and they had harsh rule over conquered countries, such as the Congo Free State, and these are bad intentions because actions determine how serious someone is in their intentions. Europeans minimal desires to...
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...Primo Levi (1986), a Holocaust survivor and author of multiple works, says “Judges know this very well: almost never do two eyewitnesses of the same event describe it in the same way and with the same words, even if the event is recent and if neither of them has a personal interest in distorting it” (p.1) After viewing different testimonies it is evident that recollection of an event is adapted due to various factors such as: personal experiences, age, gender, bias, and more. This is why testimony is so valuable because it provides viewers with the ability to relate in some ways to survivors, it reiterates historical events during the Holocaust combating deniers, feels in the less researched components, and it gives the opportunity to study psychological aspects. By analyzing the dialogue, tone, and body language of each survivor much more about a survivors disposition can be revealed. While watching Aviva Blumberg’s testimony two themes were highlighted that Primo Levi has also...
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...In Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman presents not only his father’s Holocaust narrative but also his own personal narrative, especially with regards to his relationship with Vladek. Readers learn that Artie and Vladek do not always get along, and there is a palpable tension between them. Vladek seems frugal and argumentative, while Artie appears self-centered and uncaring. In both cases, the characters’ faults are not glossed over. They are portrayed realistically, with positive and negative traits on full display. These portrayals accomplish two different goals for Spiegelman: one, they emphasize Artie’s interest in accuracy as opposed to sentimentality, and two, they allow the audience to discover Artie’s own personal trauma—namely,...
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...War II many events happened such as the Holocaust and of course many important people were involved from Hitler, the president all the way to all the people who suffered in the concentration camps. I will tell you about 5 important people from the Holocaust and their importance, these people are: Adolph Hitler, Elie Wiesel, Sir Nicholas, Winston Churchill and Musolini. The first one I will inform you about is Adolf Hitler, which was the leader of the NAZI group, he was in charge of this group from 1934-1945. Hitler rose to power due to the fact when he came to Germany, it was under a great depression since they had an unstable economy and government, they had to pay reparations to the U.S. and their money value decreased. The people listened to Hitler and brain washed them which helped a lot to make “Germany a better place”. Hitler was the responsible one for the beginning of World War II and The Holocaust. He created a law called “Racial Hygiene” which consisted of a state policy that not everyone was equal and was treated different for their ethnicity, skin color, religion...
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