...The Holocaust was a horrendous event where the Jewish population was persecuted and believed to be inferior to all others by Germany. Many events throughout history are identified with a race or denomination being persecuted based on their beliefs; the Japanese-American Relocation was indistinguishable from the Holocaust however, a few key events make them unique. The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying acts in history as, at the occurrence of the event “as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day”(The Holocaust). Furthermore, Hitler was leading this mass genocide with debatable ideas that helped little with the situation, believing that the Jewish population was an enemy of his people, a threat. These ideas transpired during World War II, but supposedly dispersed after combat ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered and Hitler lost his life. Yet, once the Pearl Harbor was bombed a similar event occurred....
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...The holocaust was a horrendous event where the Jewish population was persecuted and believed to be inferior to all others by Germany. Many events throughout history are similar by a race or religion being persecuted based on their beliefs; the Japanese-American Relocation was indistinguishable from the holocaust except for a few events that make them unique. The holocaust could be labeled as one of the worst acts in history; during the event “as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day”(History). Hitler was the leader of this mass genocide believing that Jewish population were an enemy of his people and that they were a threat as a result. These ideas transpired during World War II but quickly dispersed after the war ended when Germany surrendered and Hitler committed suicide. After the bombing of Pearl-Harbor a similar event occurred....
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...2015 Internment Camp Research Paper Japanese and Holocaust camps were very active during the mid 1900's, causing a vigorous movement between each group. The camps tended to be unfair, and were created due to dictatorship by one persep or group. The Holocaust and Japanese internment camps were major events in the mid 1900's that moved thousands of people to different locations, that people never thought would be relevant in their lives. The Holocaust work camps were harsh labor camps that were spread across Europe. Each camp was planned out by the Nazi soldiers. The Japanese relocation camps were located along the Pacific Coast. The Japanese were sent to a location ordered by the government...
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...concentration camps and America had Japanese internment camps. Concentration camps were work camps for the people in Germany who were deemed impure, these people often died of disease, starvation, or cyanide gas. Internment camps were plots of land guarded by layers of barbed wire fences, that the Japanese people were put into with no resources. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps were essentially the same because both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens, in both camps people were dehumanized, and in the two camps were used to jail those who opposed or threatened their governments. Both the Jews and the Japanese lost their rights as citizens of their countries. First in Japanese internment camps the people were classified as non-alien enemies. The loyal Japanese citizens couldn’t even be called citizens anymore but were classified as non-alien enemies. Second before the concentration camps in Germany, the Jewish people were stripped of their rights to everything, their homes, their businesses, and going to...
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...Arithmetic, Hannah goes back in time to the holocaust and experiences it herself, meanwhile in The Boy Who Dared, Helmuth looks back at what put him on death row during the holocaust. Then, in “Teens Against Hitler”, A young boy is take to a ghetto, and then leaves to join a resistance group, and in “Betrayed By America”, a japanese boy is taken to an internment camp...
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...eyes and blonde hair. Everyone knows what the Holocaust is, why it happened and who was victimized, but many people are unaware of the other groups that were targeted by the Nazis as well. The Roma, or Gypsies were a large group that was persecuted mainly before the Holocaust and the Jews. Gypsies originated in Punjab, a region in northern India. They moved into Europe in between 700s and 1000 C.E.....
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...Entry 1: The Holocaust As Hitler’s armies had breached Eastern Europe in 1941, he started what we know today as the Holocaust. The “Madagascar Plan” was considered before the Nazis decided to murder the “undesirable” people. The Nazis initially considered the island of Madagascar as a potential new home for the millions of Jews and even encouraged Jewish emigration. This solution did not last long and Hitler decided to embark on the “final solution,” which basically means he wanted to kill the entire population of Jewish and other “undesirable” people. Hitler’s special task forces, known as Einsatzgruppen, were mobile killing units that were driven to kill any Jewish person they found. These German special killing forces killed more than a...
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...During their attempt to accomplish their authoritarian ideals, they killed millions in internment camps. The camps served as forced labor camps and in Hitler’s case, killing centers. The victims died of exhaustion from the hard labor, exposure of harsh weather, starvation, poor hygiene, and poor living conditions (Unites States Holocaust Memorial). Stalin exiled Soviet Union citizen to dreadful gulags for petty crimes, and opposition towards his leadership and the communist party, killing over 18 million citizens. While Stalin sentenced civilians, Hitler didn’t stay far behind. Hitler also imprisoned 11 million people in concentration camps, located around Nazi Germany’s territory. Anyone that didn’t fit the descriptions of the pure Aryan race (light skin complexion, blonde hair, blue eyes, and physically healthy) were exterminated in the camps. The internment camps removed any resistance in achieving the Nazi and Stalinism...
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...The Holocaust completely changed the world and affected billions of lives. This was exemplified in Jane Yolen’s novel The Devil’s Arithmetic and Peter L. Fischl’s poem “To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up” As the two authors used tremendously different tones to display the same message. Yolen was more respectable and sounded more dulcet while Fischl showed more wrath and aggression as he aimed to show how the world did nothing about the pain endured by millions. The two authors both attempted to persuade the reader of the terror of genocide and inform of the agony experienced by countless numbers of individuals. The Devil’s Arithmetic illustrates the Jews feelings and the everyday life at the internment camps. This historical fiction novel shows the cruel actions of the Nazis and how they abused many innocent beings. Jane Yolen is clearly more phlegmatic in her writing as she aims to persuade and inform the reader of the trepidation people felt during the horrendous period in time. She uses a tone that almost brings...
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...and Jews during World at War II? Americans’ interned Japanese-Americans into camps out of fear, distrust and discrimination. Nazis’ imprisoned Jews for just discrimination and hate. They were both locked up for just being themselves, it was being Japanese and by just being a normal Jew. World at War II can teach us a lot about discrimination and being prejudice to other minority groups, WWII can show us how some minority groups suffer through even if they’re not inside a camp and just living in a normal neighborhood. In the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, it shows us how quickly something evil can happen to anyone in world. After the attack on Pearl Harbor about 120,000 of Japanese and Japanese Ancestry were relocated to internment camps for just being themselves. At one point during the war, Japanese-Americans were given a choice, one choice was getting sent back to Japan and most likely die from American Soldiers or to join the American side and fight against the Japanese. In the book Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne’s oldest brother Woody decided to go to war because he thought the sooner the war ended the...
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...history hidden in WWII. The Internment and Concentration Camps happened in WWII. The Nazi camps were started, because of all people Hitler judged. The japanese camps were started because of Pearl Harbor. The camps are not the same, because they had different purposes, people, and were the people were treated different. Nazi concentration camps and Japanese internment camps are not the same, because they had many different purposes. The Nazi camps were used to hold all who were against Hitler and people he judged, also they were used to build for the war. In the Holocaust Documentary the camps each had their own jobs such as making ammunition, clothing, weapons and etc. Japanese camps were used to house Japanese Americans during the war. George Takai said that the people from the camp were surrounded by tanks, three levels of barbed wire, and soldiers pointing in not out. The comparison of the camps are different the Japanese American camps were built out of fear and the Nazi camps were built for the war. Then later the killing of millions of Jewish people. The people were killed by gas chambers, acid showers, and even burned to death. The Nazi camps were built for war and killing not housing. The Japanese camps were built for housing not killing....
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...day to the news of Pearl Harbor. His family is whisked away and thrown into internment camps with other Japanese-Americans for years during the war. Between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the pacific coast were relocated to these War Relocation Camps (Manzanar). When they are released after the atomic bombings, they return home, to a site that has been ravished by police, mobs, and vandals. This was often the case for Japanese-Americans returning home from the camps. Wanting a better life for himself, Kenji immigrates to America when he is 15, and works until he is able to purchase and build a store, raising a family in the process. “They called him Immigrant…” even though he is successful in his pursuit of the American Dream, he is still sometimes a victim of racism. “The evil Japanese in our home country will be locked away,” following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans are ordered into internment camps where they live under the harshest conditions. Inside the camps, prisoners were provided with very little food, shelter, or sanitation utilities, not to mention overcrowding. The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in Wyoming “was a barbed-wire-surrounded enclave with unpartitioned toilets, cots for beds, and a budget of 45 cents daily per capita for food rations” (Myer). Outside of joining the military, there was little hope amongst the prisoners of ever leaving the camps. Even in atrocious living conditions, Kenji remains hopeful that one day...
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...crimes of mankind occurred under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. This crime was the Holocaust, which imprisoned many Jewish people in internment camps, and slaughtered over six million. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful they both convey their message about the holocaust in similar and different ways. In the book and movie they both had a motif of god, and his relationship with man. In the book Wiesel reflects on god in many ways. During the beginning of the book Elie was very religious, he even said “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to synagogue and weep over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 3). This shows the Wiesel was very religious and did infact believe in God at the beginning of the book, but throughout the book Elie does begin to question God and even...
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...Powerful groups are like parasites that feed off of helpless individuals. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it shows the journey of a 15 year old boy in the Holocaust. On the other hand, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, shows the experience of a teenage girl in the Japanese Internment Camps. Elie and Jeanne both are similar in the fact that they both had their rights violated by a powerful group, but they are different in the way that Jeanne found herself in the camp and Elie lost his faith in humanity because nobody helped him throughout most of his struggles. Elie and Jeanne both had their rights violated by a powerful group, but Elie lost a part of him in the camp whereas Jeanne found herself in her camp. “From the depths...
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...The Holocaust. What comes to mind when this single event is mentioned? Tragedy, fear, death, sadness? For many, the thought of the Holocaust sounds like it occurred a lifetime ago. However, the atrocities which the Jews faced transpired less than seventy-five years ago. The Holocaust is not another shrapnel of ancient antiquity to be disserted – it is a chapter of modern history which must be deliberated and reflected upon. For this time, history cannot repeat itself. The nefarious concentration camps had their own social climate, as Jews braced themselves every day for the same endless battle of survival and did anything they had to do in order to outlive their relentless enemy – death. The story of how countless people were ripped from their homes and thrown into death camps is told firsthand, by the autobiographical novel, Night, written by Holocaust survivor Eliezer Wiesel. According to Wiesel’s recollection, it all commenced when German officers began to enter Jewish towns and occupy them. There was talk of German tensions, but almost everyone was indifferent. Before they knew it, Jews were being placed into ghettos, curfews were being imposed on them, and they were having more rights taken away from them. Anti-Semitism became...
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