...Humanity still fails to learn from our past mistakes relating to the Holocaust. We’ll continue to fail because of our discussions. We’ll continue to fail because of our discussions. We’ll continue to fail because of our actions. And we will fail because we already had forgotten. As a whole, humanity has not truly learned from the Holocaust and something should be done. In the halls of Shadow Ridge, concerning words roam and I question if we’ve truly learned from our mistakes. The amount of conversations that include phrases like “ You’re a dirty Jew!” or “ You’re such a Jew!” is unsettling. Yet, we allow these types of negative conversations to happen. Furthermore, we also allow negative jokes and derogatory terms to be made about a serious matter. As a society, we joke about an event which had taken many lives. It’s immature, it’s ignorant, and it’s plain out disrespectful. Another reason, we have not learned from mistakes is because we discuss the Holocaust as a small event. The Holocaust is an event that shouldn’t be taken easily. However, we should stop these negative conversations from happening in the first place. By changing the way we discuss the Holocaust and stopping inappropriate conversations before they go too far. Overall, if we continue our...
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...Violence is never the answer. The Holocaust was a very depressing and violent time for Jewish people. Germans captured them and threw them into concentration camps until they died. The Germans would force the Jews to work all day and gave them a very small amount of food to live off of. Many people died in concentration camps from the cold weather, starvation, exhaustion, and many other causes. The Holocaust should never be forgotten because it shows how much cruelty people had towards others. Hopefully, this would show the world that this is unacceptable and should never happen again. While I read the book, Night, I was surprised by many things. I did not know that there were crematoriums in the concentration camps. I knew that many Jewish...
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...Mr.Baker & Ms.George English 30 May 2024 The Silence of the Death Wiesel expresses how the genocide really happened and people should not forget about it and to prevent it from happening again. This is why, Elie Wiesel, didn’t want people to never forget about the Holocaust and the genocide that happened. Elie mentions in Night, “To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive, to forget the dead would be killing them a second time” (Prologue xv). One of the main reasons Elie expresses this is to share, and he has assumed the role of messenger. It is his duty to be witness as a "messenger of the dead among the living.” That is the main reason why he keeps repeating “Never should I forget, never should I forget, never should I forget” (Wiesel 34). On the other hand,...
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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...not because of disease or famine, but because of a sick and twisted ideology that a specific group of humans were less than the ground they walk on. Those six million people are now no more than a photo, a memory, a dream, maybe even a name on a memorial wall. The name of this event is as well-known as the people who began and participated in this systematic annihilation of a race, it is called The Holocaust. The name in itself has a deeper meaning beyond the nine letters given to the event. The name represents how much this has truly affected the world over the past sixty years. Some would say that The Holocaust was just genocide, which has happened many times through the course of written and televised history. The name shows how significant it was after World War II and how significant it still is today by simply having a specific name rather than merely being called the genocide of the Jewish people. It also represents how one word can evoke more emotions, memories, and recollections than any event in history. Virtually everyone in the world was affected by The Holocaust by 1945. That is a powerful sentiment in itself, showing not only how those six...
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...Many people have written about the Holocaust. But not many Holocaust survivors have written about their personal experiences of this horrific period. Although we have read dozens of historical books and articles about this genocide written by well respected historians, there aren’t enough memoirs of the Holocaust written by people who experienced everything first hand. Books that are considered primary sources are very few and this is why those biographies and autobiographies of victims and survivors of the Holocaust are priceless. Primo Levi’s memoir If This Is A Man is one of those books describing the horrible acts that the author endured during the Holocaust. In his autobiography, Levi describes his time in Auschwitz after being captured by the Nazis during World War II until the concentration camp’s liberation almost two years later. The events are described in chronological order in the way the Italian – Jew author experienced it all....
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...the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel and his two older sisters survived. Night, narrated by Eliezer Wiesel, chronicles his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. His family is deported from Hungary, brought to Auschwitz, and experiences starvation, abuse, and death. In the preface of Night, Ellie explains. “And those words are: For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are also responsible for what we are doing with those memories.” After reviewing...
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...Final Paper The Holocaust September 1st, 1939 marks the day in which the Holocaust began, a day we should never forget. Hitler had dreams to purify Germany and deem the Aryan race supreme however, he did not succeed. The strength and will power of the Jewish people to survive these unbearable times must be remembered for many generations to come. We must remember and teach about the incredible people who survived and give tribute to those who perished through documentation of the Holocaust, the community aspects, representation and religion of the Holocaust. Documentation of the Holocaust is very critical in teaching the future generations. Soon, all the survivors will be gone and it will be in the hands of our generation to tell the stories of the Holocaust. Several books and movies have been produced in memory of the Holocaust such as the Yizkor books. About “1,300 books have been published since the end of WWII”(Dr. Neil Jacobs) and they are great outlets of telling the stories of specific towns. For example, my Yizkor book project was on the city Dzialoszyce which was a thriving community in Poland. This book explains aspects of the town in the form of four main sections; “The Town and Its Residents Before World War I, Between Two World Wars, Customs and Traditions and The Holocaust” (Moshe Rozneck). In Dzialoszyce, societies were an integral part of everyday life in order to form a more communal lifestyle among the citizens. Another outlet of documentation was...
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...Freedom and equality had become the forefront of the issue, which ultimately reshaped American history and beliefs on racial and ethnic tolerance. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, an outpouring of eyewitness accounts by survivors and perpetrators has surfaced as historical evidence. Emotion played a vital role in the accounts of the survivors’ atrocious stories. Emotion was the expression of ones thoughts and beliefs affected by feeling regarding a certain event or individual. In terms of the Holocaust, emotion was overwhelmingly prevalent in the survivors’ tales of their experiences. As scholars point out, the Holocaust evoked sympathy, which reinforced basic societal values. FDR stated that to be an American “… had always been a matter of mind and heart, never…a matter of race or ancestry” (Foner 873). The cause of the Holocaust opened up citizens eyes to many issues going on, which inspired people to get involved and take...
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...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...People who are religious are close with God and deny questioning His Being. Wiesel was one of the Jews who survived the Holocaust during World War ll. Wiesel’s identity of God changed during his experience in Auschwitz due to the harsh conditions faced. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel the major theme throughout the whole story is that people struggle to maintain any sort of faith in god when faced with extreme struggles. The greatest change to Elie Wiesel’s identity was his loss of faith in God. Before leaving with his family to the camps, Elie was very religious person he would cry after praying at night. When the German police came to take the Jews to the ghettos, they pulled Elie from his prayer. Elie thanks God when he was told he is...
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...Though humanity has seen many trials and dangers, few events in the course of human history reflect the absolute evil that mankind can offer—one such being the Holocaust. The Holocaust is one of the few examples of the true, unadulterated calamities that humans have produced. Their baser, evil nature comes to light through the terrible things the Nazis and the rest of the world did to the Jewish community. Many reputable articles, as well as the infamous memoir “Night” by the Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, depict the pain and terror the Jews underwent during their time in the concentration camps, which would then affect them not only immediately but also for generations afterward. These articles and the prominent memoir “Night” all illustrate...
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...author, Noble Peace Prize Winner, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered the speech The Perils of Indifference on April 12, 1999. He delivered this speech in order to inspire the American people to take action in times of human suffering, injustice, and violence, in order to prevent events like the Holocaust from happening again in the future. Through the use of the modes of persuasion, his rhetorical situation, and word choice, Wiesel successfully appeals to his audience of President Clinton and his wife, the members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, his “excellencies” and the rest of the American public. Wiesel’s main point in his speech is that of indifference and what can come about because of it. In order to successfully define indifference to the audience and persuade them to never be indifferent in the future, Wiesel defines its etymology, as “no difference” and uses numerous comparisons on what may cause indifference, as “a strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur” in circumstances like light and dark and good and evil. To prove that indifference is both a sin and a punishment, Wiesel appeals to logos and ethos, stating that he is aware of how tempting it may be to be indifferent and that it can be easier to avoid something rather than take action against it. He believes that indifference benefits the aggressor and the enemy, and not the victim, who feels more and more pain when one feels he or she is forgotten. In his speech, Wiesel questions as to...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...How Power Can Torment Innocence The Holocaust a time in which an innocent race of people were tormented by a group of powerful brainwashed men. John Boyne “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. Bruno an innocent boy who doesn't really know what is happening around him who becomes friend with boy named Shmuel who is a prisoner at a concentration camp. This book is about an innocent boy whose innocence makes him confused of what really is happening during his time and he finds himself a friend who is a prisoner at a concentration camp and they create a strong bond with each other but that bond would end in tragedy. The Nazi Party the main reason why Germany went from an emerging democracy to a dictatorship that would commit a genocide to the jewish race which Bruno a young innocent boy that was seeing what was occurring but he never thought anything bad he thought everything that was going around him was normal. In the book there is many scenes in which Bruno always talks about Germany and how great it is but when he sees the striped pajama people ( Jews) he doesn't think of them as bad people...
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