...When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Jews were living in every country of Europe. A total of nine million Jews lived in the countries that would be occupied by Germany during World War II. By the end of the war, two out of every three of these Jews would be dead; European Jewish life would be changed forever. This paper will tell few stories that might touch your heart. Although there are many people that say Holocaust never happened, the people who lived through it have their life stories to prove it. People that went through holocaust can’t explain what they went through in their own words. “I’ve always been careful not to tell my children too much about what I went through so as not to traumatise them,” (Pollack). These survivor...
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...My unit plan involves interdisciplinary instruction in Social Studies and English. The topic of the unit is the Holocaust. Students will be examining primary sources and novels that details the events of the Holocaust. My community resource would be The Holocaust and Human Rights Education center. I would work with my team to organize an assembly for the English and Social Studies classes. The assembly would include various speakers from the The Holocaust and Human Rights Education center. I would also try to get a survivor to come and speak at the assembly as well. I would prepare lessons, activities, and materials for before, during, and after the assembly. Before: 1st Activity- Students would be introduced to the topic with a PowerPoint...
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...Children of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the most brutal part of history. Thousands upon thousands of Jews were slaughtered and tortured during the reign of the Nazi empire. The adults had it hard since they were thrown into consecration camps and slave labor; but the children had a hard life as well. Let’s see how the children of the Holocaust lived back then or survived that is. Children during the Holocaust Children were the most vulnerable to the Nazi murders in the era of the Holocaust. It was estimated that 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust by direct consequence of Nazi actions. Children were killed when they just arrive in killing centers. When children Jewish blood were born, they were killed immediately or they are put in institutions. Children born in ghettos survived for prisoners hid them from the Nazis. Children who were over the age of 12 were used as slaves, and others were subjects of medical experiments. Children were killed during reprisal operations or from the known name anti-partisan operations. People from during this time say that Nazi soldiers used Jewish born babies as target practice....
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...The Holocaust was a terrible and traumatizing experience for the prisoners, but have you ever thought about what happened to the survivors? How did they get back to their normal lives? Well if you have, you're in luck, I wrote a whole paper on it. Following their liberation, the lives of Holocaust survivors were hurt by long-lasting physical illnesses, mental health issues, and difficulty returning to their lives before their imprisonment. Descendants of the holocaust damaged by physical illnesses caused by the Holocaust. Some Holocaust victims also suffered from mental health issues because of their experiences imprisoned in the camps. They also suffer from not ever able to settle back into normal lives. Overall this essay will be discussing the tragic suffering that took a great toll on holocaust survivors, Specifically with psychological and bodily sicknesses, also including getting back to their normal lives. There were a lot of horrific ways prisoners in the Holocaust were badly altered. One way holocaust prisoners suffered was by mental illnesses because of experiences in the holocaust. An example of this is post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders depression and this sometimes even...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Mr. Newman FROM: Michael Robertson Date: 12/7/16 RE: Will Mannon, First Amendment, Holocaust Denial Act. STATEMENT OF FACTS Our client, Will Mannon, is being prosecuted for violating the Mississippi Holocaust Denial Act which makes it a misdemeanor for anyone on state property to deny the historical account of the Nazi Holocaust of the 1930’s and 1940’s. The statute cites the “extreme distress inflicted on large swaths of the state’s population when the atrocities of the Holocaust are publicly dismissed.” Mannon was videotaped last spring giving a lecture on the campus on The University of Northern Mississippi in which he repeatedly described accounts of the Holocaust as “hogwash.” Our client believes the entire statute violates the First Amendment of the federal Constitution. The state of Mississippi (acting through the State Attorney General), however, asserts that falsehoods are not protected speech because the law permits citizens, despite the first amendment, to sue for defamation (libel or slander) when a defendant spreads vicious lies about the plaintiff. QUESTION PRESENTED Does the Mississippi Holocaust Denial Act violate the...
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...Reminder: Your intro should have the three components: A). A hook, B). Background including a brief summary, title and author’s name, and C). A thesis statement. See below: Example intro: Isaac Asimov once said that “to insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.” Animals aren’t cruel because they mostly kill for survival, to eat, feed their young, and defend themselves, but humans they kill for racial hatred, jealousy, and power. A perfect example of the latter would be the Holocaust where humans tortured and killed other humans because they were different. In Eliezier Wiesel’s memoir, Night he describes the extreme cruelty and suffering he endures in Auschwitz and other concentration camps as a child inmate during the Holocaust. Wiesel can neither explain nor understand the reasons for human cruelty that he witnesses and endures during the Holocaust, but learns that cruelty breeds more of the same and in the end survival and self-preservation is all that matters. Night sample thesis statements: You may borrow one, make it your own or write one from scratch: 1. Question: Analyze Elie and other characters’ struggle with faith. You can approach this chronologically or by effects. What is Elie’s final judgment on the benefit/cost of faith? Consider Elie’s interpretations of God’s intentions and use of visual imagery (such as death and night imagery). Thesis: At the beginning of the...
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...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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...Book Review Parallel Journeys Parallel Journeys, by Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck, compares the life of two young people in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of World War II. They were born within sixty miles of each other, but their lives took dramatically different paths. Alfons, is a boy who grew up on a farm in Germany. When Hitler came to power he became involved with the Hitler Youth. Alfons grew up on a farm but was a Nazi boy who became a commander at age sixteen. This book truly depicts Hitler's impact and influence on the youth of Germany. Alfons was brainwashed by Hitler's promises, a full pledged Nazi youth is how it is presented in the book he participated in all rallies. He started his training to become the future of Germany and eventually of the world. There he learned discipline and order. He trained to become a soldier and he learned the ways of warfare. He was taught to be a follower of anti-Semitism and was told to hate the Jewish people. He along with millions of Nazi’s believed that they were the reason for Germany's problems. As years went by, Alfons rose through the ranks of the military until the end of the war where realized what atrocities had been committed, he than took off his uniform and went on to help people. On the other side of the spectrum we have Helen Waterford a young Jewish girl who grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. She married Siegfried Wohlfarth and moved to Amsterdam because of tension brewing...
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...GuidE – A true story School Dates: September 14 – OctOber 5, 2007 Adapted by Emil Sher Based on the book by Karen Levine Originally published by Second Story Press Media Sponsor: nal dditiovisit For a rials, mate tage.org! FirstS Please be sure to share this guide with all teachers who are taking their students to see this production. Photocopy or download additional copies from FirstStage.org INSIDE THE GUIDE preparing for the play A NOTE TO TEACHERS AND PARENTS HANA’S SUITCASE is the true story of Jewish girl who died at Auschwitz at the age of thirteen and how, although her life was taken at such a young age, her memory and spirit continue to live on today. Adapted from the book of the same title by Karen Levine, HANA’S SUITCASE explores the journey of teacher and children at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Center take to find out who Hana Brady is—all from a suitcase the Center received with Hana’s name, birth date, and the word waisenkind (orphan) written on it. The children at the Center are captivated by this suitcase, and the girl who once owned it, and they begin flooding Fumiko Ishioka, the Center’s Director, with question after question about Hana. Fumiko recognizes the importance of uncovering Hana’s story for her students. This tragic event cannot be summed up in numbers or facts— it affected individuals, young and old, who each had a story, families, and hopes and dreams. As Fumiko slowly but determinedly reveals Hana’s story, she discovers...
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...The Holocaust Deanna Gimmi World Civilizations II Eric Fox March 18, 2012 The Holocaust With Germany in turmoil politically and economically after WWI, the German people were ripe for a charismatic leader. They found that in Adolf Hitler. Hitler joined the German Work Party in 1919. The party embraced right-wing ideology which suited Hitler’s views. Adolf Hitler was a captivating speaker and he encouraged national pride, militarism and commitment to the Volk (people) and a racially “pure” Germany. Hitler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, shortened to the Nazi Party. He hated the Jews and promoted anti-Semitism. There are many stories as to why Hitler hated the Jews, but it is commonly thought that it was because many Jews were merchants and financially successful, when many workers struggled during the depressed economic state of Germany. He had actually developed his dislike for Jews long before he became a soldier. Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and since he had the support of approximately 400,000 Nazis, he was able to overthrow the democratic government and on March 23, 1933 became the dictator of Germany. As dictator, he could then turn his attention to the driving force which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and his idea of a racially “pure” Germany. This paper will examine Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and how the greatest persecution...
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...Human beings can do extraordinary things in times of extreme crisis. The Holocaust was a crisis that still haunts us today. A select few survivors of the Holocaust chose to find amazing ways to cope with the horrors of the Nazis’ concentration camps. Elements of Gerda Weissmann Klein’s All But My Life and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful explore the importance of finding ways to cope through performance. In All But My Life, Weissmann Klein describes her use of performance to endure the loss of her friends and family in Polish and Czechoslovakian camps. Similarly, Benigni creates the sad yet heartwarming Life is Beautiful, a story weaving together the love and imagination of a father to ensure his son’s survival. Both the novel and the movie prove...
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...The holocaust happened between 1933 to 1945, this event was lead by Hitler and killed many jews. Many of the ‘opposite’ side to the Nazi government were taken to concentration camps, these were spread around Germany, they had horrible conditions and caused much trauma to the families and people who were in it, these were caused by the types of activities that were happening over there. In this essay, I will be talking about Why, when, where, who and what are concentration camps, the types of activities were held and the long term impacts of the holocaust on the jewish people. Concentration camps greatly impact the jewish people, concentration camps were camps in which people were detained, usually under extremely harsh conditions, where no...
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...The Museum of Tolerance was an emotional and extremely eye-opening experience. The museum itself is filled with heaps of educational history, striving to reach a multitude of humanist issues by taking its visitors on a journey through time. Upon arrival we were instructed to walk up a spiraling white staircase, the walls lined with black and white portraits of holocaust survivors, leading all the way up to the Anne Frank exhibit. We were prompted with a brief introductory film on the Frank family then directed downstairs into a dimly lit hallway. Immediately, I am drawn to the walls that’re constructed with clothing. As you go further into the exhibit, going deeper into Anne’s story, the clothes gradually become dull and drab, then shifting into prisoner uniforms, and ultimately ending with all black clothing. The clothing served as a representation of the drastic changes that occurred in response to the war. The exhibit is a voice and light guided tour, with the voice reading excerpts from Anne’s diary accompanying the several photographs, artifacts, and information posted along the walls. The voice leads us through a door (which was an exact replica of the bookcase that enclosed the Annex) into a small theatre which showed a film that captured Anne’s uniquely positive view on the world within her confined circumstances. After the Anne Frank exhibit we stumbled upon one of the newest exhibits which featured the diverse lives of Maya Angelou, Billy Crystal, and Carlos Santana...
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...represent a deeper, continuous meaning that pervades the book. By doing this, Fitzgerald is able to outline major themes in the novel, including facial expressions, honesty, and balance. Most clearly and powerfully, however, the outline of lightness through positive imagery and darkness through negative imagery is presented in the final lines of each chapter. By grouping the chapters by hopefulness shown in their respective final lines, a trend is apparent. In chapters one through three, the final lines provide a dark, sullen preview for the chapters to come, while chapter four provides a transition into the final lines of chapters five and six, which signify a brief sense of giddiness that begins to darken. Finally, the last lines of chapters seven through nine mark the development and completion of the violent “holocaust” (162). Supplying a preview at the end of chapter one as to the violence to occur later in the novel, Nick says he is “alone again in the unquiet darkness” (21). By stating the word “darkness” at the end of the first chapter, Fitzgerald can ultimately emphasize the fact that eventually, the plot will take a cold, deep, serious turn for the worse. Moreover, it shows the ambiguity of the first chapter, as the reader does not yet know much about the characters’ personalities or actions. This ambivalent image can...
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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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