...Each page of a “Diary of a Young girl,” consists of Anne Frank’s resilience. Her bravery has been known throughout the world for over 70 years. The three crucial ways Anne was resilient during times of desperate measures was she was very flexible from day one, she had perseverance to overcome her challenges and she used creativity to produce inspiring thinking. Anne Frank was a jewish girl who wrote a diary documenting her life while she was hiding in the secret annex. She is the most well known victim from the Holocaust because of her diary. From 1942-1944 Anne and her family spent their days hiding in the attic of the building her father worked in, until they were betrayed in August 1944. Although she did not survive the Holocaust, the mark...
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...Perseverance is Key. It may be difficult for people to get back up after being knocked down, but they persevere and keep trying. Jews who were involved in the Holocaust had to persevere through everything. Losing their family, getting abused, getting starved, being forced to do stuff, and more. People find strength in different ways to persevere and endure a tough time. For example, Hedi was a girl in the Holocaust who had to see things happen she never imagined seeing. The Holocaust was as horrible for women as it was for men. “A Hungarian demanded she take it off and hand it to him. So mother removed the ring, threw it away, and said to him, "Now go look for it." She didn't hand it to him – she was a proud woman” (Solzbach). The women were...
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...Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor and his memoir, Night, reflects the society and the beliefs of its time. A controversy about this work is that some people believe the Holocaust never happened and as a result regard the book as false. However, this novel was important at the time it was written, because it was a time when people didn‘t believe in the Holocaust. In addition, Elie Wiesel’s background is essential to the Holocaust’s memory, because it deals with the Nazi’s genocide. The author of Night, who is also the protagonist of the book, shows how delusion and rumors spread false hopes and lies throughout the camp. The author also showed how Hitler’s belief that other races were inferior and didn’t deserve to live led to Hitler’ rise to power. Wiesel’s story is crucial to that time-period since it shows his perseverance through multiple concentration camps and the loss of close family members....
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...How has Jane Yolen made use of the features of a fairytale to explore the themes in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen’s novel Briar Rose (1992) combines enchanting fairy tale elements with realistic historical attributes to create an engaging representation of personal discovery/the horrors that defined the holocaust/OR answer Q. Yolen unfolds her narrative through multiple narrative layers and literary techniques to convey the central ideas of human determination and resilience, and the significance of memory to bring back to life an anonymous past. Through the themes and literary techniques that Yolen utilises, the parallels of Briar Rose to a fairy tale are developed into a family history. Human resilience and the ability to rise above suffering is a significant notion that Yolen powerfully acknowledges in Briar Rose, which also establishes a parallel to the common fairy tale element of good triumphing over evil. This is significantly brought forward through Josef’s vivid illustration of the ugly horrors of war he experienced as a partisan during World War II. Unlike Gemma’s fairy tale, Potocki’s eloquent story in the novel is sustained and uninterrupted, adding a sense of authenticity to his narration and providing a sense of realism to the disturbing and frightening experiences that he and Gemma had survived. It is an honest recollection that does not glorify – portraying the partisans as “survivors, not heroes”, and provides detailed descriptions revolving around the Nazi...
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...How has Jane Yolen made use of the features of a fairytale to explore the themes in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen’s novel Briar Rose (1992) combines enchanting fairy tale elements with realistic historical attributes to create an engaging representation of personal discovery/the horrors that defined the holocaust/OR answer Q. Yolen unfolds her narrative through multiple narrative layers and literary techniques to convey the central ideas of human determination and resilience, and the significance of memory to bring back to life an anonymous past. Through the themes and literary techniques that Yolen utilises, the parallels of Briar Rose to a fairy tale are developed into a family history. Human resilience and the ability to rise above suffering is a significant notion that Yolen powerfully acknowledges in Briar Rose, which also establishes a parallel to the common fairy tale element of good triumphing over evil. This is significantly brought forward through Josef’s vivid illustration of the ugly horrors of war he experienced as a partisan during World War II. Unlike Gemma’s fairy tale, Potocki’s eloquent story in the novel is sustained and uninterrupted, adding a sense of authenticity to his narration and providing a sense of realism to the disturbing and frightening experiences that he and Gemma had survived. It is an honest recollection that does not glorify – portraying the partisans as “survivors, not heroes”, and provides detailed descriptions revolving around the Nazi...
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...humanity are inhumane acts against a certain race or population. This one picture does not even give justice to the millions of people who have lost their lives due to racial profiling and not fitting in to what society thinks is “right”. In this picture there lays the arms of a survivor of one the biggest and devastating genocides the world has ever seen. Leon Greenman is just one of the millions of lives were either taken away or that will never be the same, physically or mentally . A tattoo is part of a permanent moment that can never be taken away and like Leon Greenman and many other survivors of the holocaust,it will always be a part of them. It is clear that there were permanent effects that the Holocaust made an impact on; it is clear looking at the picture of Leon Greenman, he was one the lucky ones who survived and his tattoo shows the proof. During the Holocaust Adolf Hitler did not think of the Jews as humans, he thought they were wastes of space and that they needed to be terminated in order for Germany to have a pure race. By doing this Hitler ordered that all individuals of Jewish descent would be transported to camps such as Auschwitz so either they were worked to death like cattle or immediately killed in gas chambers or other types of crimes against humanity that one could only imagine. These innocent individuals had done no crime but they were punished for being who they were.For some people when they first look at the picture they think they see the hands...
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...How the Holocaust affected people Six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust, 1.5 million were children and babies. In fact, the Holocaust happened during WWII that made Adolf Hitler a tyrant leader of the Nazis. He made Jews go into camps called concentration camps where they would work most of the day, and the weak would be gassed and the ones that survived would work and were given rations of food. And most of the Jews were dead because of the lack of energy and food they had and diseases. Yet even through the harsh conditions the Jews faced, they still found the perseverance to push through it all. Elies father gave him the courage to help his son push through it all.When the Red army tries to exterminate Germany the sirens go off so they run and wander upon an abandoned village.Come, father, let’s go back to the shed.” He didn’t answer. He was not even looking at the dead....
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...The Belief and Denial of the Holocaust Between 1933 and 1945, an event took place that would greatly affect the world forever. Jews, homosexuals, and even Jehovah’s Witnesses were stripped of their rights, mistreated continuously, and forced to complete hard manual labor. This horrendous event led by Adolf Hitler is known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an event in which “Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered” (What Was The Holocaust?). Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany and the soldiers who were set out to annihilate anyone who did not follow social normalities. Even though there are various pictures and documents in existence showing proof...
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...Wiesel shows, through the experiences of the main character, a young boy named Eliezer, that the Jews in Nazi Germany experienced great loss, overwhelming fear, and total alienation. During the Holocaust, over 6 million Jews were systematically rounded up and deported to concentration camps, where many lost their lives. In the book, there are many priceless lessons that it teaches: perseverance, independence and courage. topic There were many situations I which Eliezer had to suffer through, most were the worst of times. Elie had lived through a lot in the short time he was in the concentration camp. The constant beatings and starvation ate at him but he was still able to persevere. One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me up again… (Elie 53). Franek bullied Elie over the crown in his mouth and threatened something bad would happen to him if he did not hand it over to him “Franek the foreman, one day noticed the gold crown in my mouth: ‘Let me have your crown kid.’ I answered that I could not because without that crown I could no longer eat….” (Wiesel 54-55) that ties back to your thesis statement.) It takes unimaginable strength and perseverance to go through what Elie went through, many people wouldn’t be able to bear it. Independence is a virtue that many people cannot develop, they spend their lives depending on someone...
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...The death marches that took place during the Holocaust were a cruel and unusual form of torture for the Jewish prisoners that were caused by the notorious Nazis. These marches affected Elie Wiesel, the main character and author of the book, Night, and his father. The prisoners were forced to march for over 42 miles away from the soon-to-be-invaded Auschwitz and as far from the Red Army as possible. The unbearable task presented to the Jews was, in a way, an exodus from an awful place, but an entry into something just as bad or possibly worse. At the end of the march a friend of Elie’s plays Beethoven’s 5th Symphony on his violin. This work of music represents a lot during this time. Similarly, the death marches represent the heartless actions taken against the poor victims of the Holocaust. The death marches were horrendous punishments inflicted for no reason. Near the end of World War II, death marches became a common way of...
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...During times of conflict we are tested, conflict can evoke the best and worst out of individuals based on how they react and cope with it, without conflict we can never know what we are truly capable of. Many figures throughout history have shown how conflict brings out the best and the worst in them; this is also shown in the film Paradise road which is directed by Bruce Beresford. The My Lai massacre is an example of how conflict brings out the best and the worst and people, the My Lai massacre was when a group of American soldiers couldn’t cope with the stress of Guerrilla Warfare against the Vietcong troops, and under their lieutenants command they fired upon the village of My Lai decimating all inhabitants which included women and children. This is a clear example of how conflict brought out the worst in these individuals, they war in a foreign land and the constant stress of being killed finally tore them up internally so they open fired and killed innocent civilians. Although it seems that only the worst arose from the conflict in My Lai, some of the best did come from it, an example is the brave chopper pilot Hugh Laury so put himself and his men on the line to save the civilians. Laury even went as far as ordering his men to fire on the American troops if they didn’t stop shooting at the Vietnamese village; this is a clear cut example of how the best of a person can arise from conflict, his morality didn’t waver , even in the face of the evil around and amongst him...
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...If somebody were to ask you what a hero is, your mind would probably jump to characters ripped straight out of the DC Universe. However, there is more to a hero than just flying and wearing your underwear on the outside of your pants. True heroes exhibit important traits such as bravery, perseverance, and willingness to devote yourself to helping others. There are many great examples of heroes in literature, some obvious, some quite unexpected. One great example of a hero would be Elie Wiesel from his memoir, Night. In this novel, Wiesel recounts his experiences with his father in a Nazi concentration camp and describes the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. At the end of the novel, his father becomes sick with dysentery. It is during this part that Wiesel exhibits heroic qualities, such as him saying in the novel that he “did everything I could to give him hope.” This proves that he is devoted to helping his father, even though his situation is almost as bad as his father’s. That devotion is an...
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...The effect of secrets “Our Secret’’ pp. 712-713, Alternative Assignment #4 Withney Belanger November 14, 2012 English 101, Section 16 Margaret Bratsenis Work Cited Griffin Susan. “Our Secret.’’ Ways of Reading. 9th Ed. David Bartholomae, and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2011. 712-713.Print. Crystal Lee “The Effects of Parental Alienation on Children” Belanger 1 In Susan Griffin’s essay, “Our Secret,’’ she talks about her secrets and she gives detailed insights into her life and ones of those that suffered through the Holocaust. The three biggest parts that she talks about is her own feelings, secrets and fears, her own experiences, the life of Heinrich Himmler, Leo, Helene, and Chief of the Nazi SS. The way that she organized her essay was very confusing and it would jump around a lot so you never really understood how everything would come together in the end. Griffin’s says “The DNA molecule is made of long, fine paired stands. These strands are helically coiled” (Griffin 379). Griffin’s tells what happens to the nucleus, and how the inner-workings of the nucleus develop into a cell which gives rise to many cells, which will eventually become an embryo. So the cell is how someone was made with and your development can be affecting you as you growing up. Baby is born with no secrets, innocent with arms wide open and then she is implying that at that point in a person’s life is the only point where...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of people died- but that does not tell the full story. The conditions which the prisoners of the concentration camps were forced to live through are inconceivable. Surviving prisoners have since expressed their experiences in different ways. There have also been later generations who have attempted to recapture this tragic time period; however, it is highly unlikely that they have experienced anything like the camps in their lives, which is detrimental in terms of building a believable story. Primo Levi, author and victim of Auschwitz, wrote Survival in Auschwitz to inform others of the horrific events and conditions that he was forced to live through in his journey to survival. Conversely, Roberto Benigni, Italian...
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...“Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...” (Tupac Shakur) In Zusak's book, The Book Thief, takes place during the Holocaust and focuses on a group of characters who are very different but live through many of the same situations with different views of each dilemma that the characters face including a hidden jew, true love, and leaving. Zusak's purpose of writing The Book Thief was to show the reader how people in a tragic situation each react and see life differently by making death the narrator. Zusak did this so the reader can see a variety of perspectives. By being set in a tragic time, the characters’ raw emotions could be expressed through relationships that go beyond race and or culture. In a book, it's a backbreaking task to take all the characters views and blend them correctly. However, Zusak uses Death as the narrator to show everyone's view of situations that they cannot control. “I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a black robe when it's cold. And I...
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