...It is ironic because at this time, being on the Nazi’s list meant death but Schindler's list was salvation for 1,100 Jews and it will never be forgotten. “We’re receiving a new ‘shipment’ ” – Goethe This quote is when Goethe needs to “make room” for a new ‘shipment’...
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...Westerbork was built in 1939, and was located near two towns called Westerbork and assen. The camp Westerbork was one of the 100 concentration camps used to kill Jews during the 3rd right. Over thousands of Jews were killed in the westerbork concentration camp. Some questions that are most common are. What was going on inside westerbork? How many Jews were murdered in westerbork? What type of people were in that camp? What was the environment inside the camp? The last question is we're there any people that escaped westerbork, if so how many and how? Everything the prisoners faced were unspeakable. The camp Westerbork was one of the concentration camps used to kill Jews during the 3rd right. Do you know what was going on...
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...Kasey I think mob mentality is when a group of people believe in one thing, and they all act a certain way because of it. For instance, in the book we’re reading there were many Germans who burned all kind of things on Hitler's birthday. I’m guessing that some of those things related to Jews, because Liesel pulled out and took a Jewish book with her (main character was a Jew). The chapter where this took place shows how all these Germans thought a certain way, and how it affected their actions. For one, they burned all these things because it was Hitlers birthday. On top of that, some of those things they burned probably involved Jews somehow, and all those people acted crazy (it was like a mosh pit). Another thing with mob mentality and Germany,...
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...that prejudice and bias are natural, they’re often rational, and they’re often even moral. And I think that once we understand this, we’re in a better position to make sense of them when they go wrong, when they have horrible consequences, and we’re in a better position to know what to do when this happens. Start with stereotypes. You may look at me, you know my name, you know some certain facts about me, and you can make some certain judgments. You could make guesses about my ethnicity, me religious beliefs, my hobby. And the thing is, these judgments tend to be accurate. We’re very good at this sort of thing. And we’re very good at this sort of things because our ability to stereotype people is not some sort of arbitrary quirk of the mind, but rather it’s a specific instance of a more general process, which is that we have experience with things and people in the world that fall into categories, and we can use our experience to make generalizations about novel instances of these categories. So everybody has a lot of experience with chairs, apples and dogs. And based on this, when you see some unfamiliar examples, you could guess you could sit on that chair, you can eat that apple, the dog will bark. Now, we might be wrong. The chair could collapse if you sit on it, the apple might be poison, the dog might not bark. But for the most part, we’re good at this. For the most part, we make good guesses both in the social domain and the non-social domain, and if we weren’t able to...
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...depicts Judith as being rather timid and unsure of herself and looking a little squeamish while committing the murder and he also portrays Abra as being elderly and standing off to the side. While Artemisia, shows Judith as having all the power, with her hand clenching into/onto his hair, holding his dead into place, while showing Abra, just as young and strong, holding down the rest of Holofernes’s weight as he attempts to fight back, while both of their foreheads are creased and eyebrows are furrowing in concentration. Artemisia is also known for her paintings to heavily feature women, especially heroines. For example, Esther, in the painting Esther before Ahasuerus, we’re shown the scene of her, appearing before King Ahasuerus in order to plead for her people’s lives after he threatened to kill all the Jews in his land. “Without revealing her ethnicity, Queen Esther pleads with her husband, King Ahasuerus, to spare the Persian...
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...terrifying! In the Movie “Anne Frank”, the play, “And Then They Came for Me”, And the reading play “ The Diary of Anne Frank”. All of these things are knowledgeable and they helped me understand a lot of things that happen and that could happen again. This may never happen again, but if it ever did, nobody would know what was happening like the jews did in the holocaust. But we need to be aware of the things that happened in the past. I learned a lot of lessons in this unit, we have it a lot better that the jews had it. People are really greaty, wasteful, rude, and selfish today. People in the holocaust would of been grateful with a pair of socks, or just a little piece of bread, or even a new outfit because they could feel the bugs and things crawling on them, or it was almost way too cold outside. Sometimes it was cold enough outside for hypothermia because they didn’t have many layers of clothes on. In the holocaust the poor jews always were in a concentration camp. They had a horrible life. Some of them starved, died of hypothermia, horrible diseases, and more. They had a very gruesome life....
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...#2. Chs. 1:18-3:20 Sin We're damned! Paul takes time to help us see that mankind is worthy of the wrath of God. The ignorance of man is displayed in the supressing of the simple and plain truth that God is real and he has a righeous design(decreee) for this world. This is a section addressed to the Gentiles of the world. The wrath of God is on it's way, and this section shows us why. So yeah, the prolouge is done, and everyone of Paul's readers should be nice and prepared as he uses this section to completely floor them with the revelatio of the sin inside of them. The Gospel in ways is similar to medical care. If the patient doesn't know his state of decaying health, he won't understand why he needs to see a doctor. Paul explains to the Romans...
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...Nevertheless, since Anne was a Jew, she knew the horrid actions anti-Jewish people, or Nazis, were taking, she said, “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” When someone in such an atrocious situation says something like that, they must have something rare and unique to urge them to say that. Therefore, in the text of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank there were some key lines Anne had said that may have nudged her to say the line. “I think the world may be going through a phase the way I was with mother. It’ll pass, maybe not for hundreds of years, but someday,” is one quote and it shows her ability to look past the dreadful times the Nazis were putting her...
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...Irena Sendler Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic woman with empathy for those around her. She watched Jewish families get moved into ghettos, she reached out and saved around 2,500 Jewish children, and was imprisoned and almost sent to death because of it. The resistance was important to the survival of Jews in the holocaust. People saved thousands of Jews in their efforts against the Nazis. People like Pere Marie-Benoit, Marie and Emile Taquet, and the Polish Zegota organization made huge endeavors against the holocaust. In 1939 German Nazis began to occupy Poland, and in 1940 Irena witnessed the imprisonment of 500,000 Jews in ghettos. She began to offer shelter to her close friends. She starting assembling false documents for Jews, which ultimately ended up saving almost 3,000 Jewish families....
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...Hellenistic period did not start because of contrived expulsion, but instead it was mostly a deliberate choice of movement of Jews to the Hellenistic lands. This migration built a new Jewish occupation outside of Judea and mostly in Ptolemaic, Egypt. This diaspora had two sides to it. One side had the values of Mosaic law and the other had the values of Hellenism of the Greeks. The ways that the Jews of this...
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...Running head: A Checkered Past: America’s Melting Pot A Checkered Past: America’s Melting Pot Abstract According to Sociology.about.com a melting pot, “is a concept referring to a heterogeneous society becoming homogenous with the different element “melting together” into a harmonious whole with a common culture” (Crossman, 2015). The issue with the notion of viewing society as a “melting pot,” is that the viewpoint fails to recognize the importance of preserving cultural difference within a society. Within a “melting pot,” there is a right and a wrong, with those going against the cultural norms being wrong. For example, in various African nations polygamy is a cultural norm, as it was once viewed as a sure way to build a successful empire. Fast-forward to today’s society where many Africans come to the United States to try and provide a better life for their families. However, polygamous living is strictly banned in the United States, as it is in most westernized societies. Often, individuals are forced to give up ties to native cultures in order to fit into a particular society. This is exactly the case in The Melting Pot, a play by Israel Zangwill. After surviving a pogrom, an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group David Quizano, one of the plays key characters, makes the tough decision to break his ties to Judaism for the sake of becoming American. This paper will examine Zangwill’s 1908 play and how transitioning into a society can lead to a loss of cultural...
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...Circumcision played such an essential part of the Jewish culture that God required Abraham to endure the rite of circumcision as a sign of the Abrahamic covenant (Gen. 17:9–14). This Jewish law was one of the many things that set them apart from other cultures, such as the Gentiles. Owing to the fact that Gentiles consisted mostly of uncircumcised men, many of the Jews isolated and rejected Gentiles who were interested in the features of Christianity. However, Paul rebuked the Jews and said, “Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith”...
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...Quinton Figueroa explicates how Hitler wasn’t actually a deplorable guy, he wasn’t even an altruistic guy, he was a great guy, especially predicated on American standards today. Why is Figueroa calling Hitler such great guy? Well, naturally people place labels on things without pondering about what’s underneath, this is considered mislabeling. If you conduct research, you’ll find that nearly all of the Jews were peregrinating to America to probe for better jobs, there was six million Jews, only a couple thousand were actually in camps, if not less. Most of people in camps were Germans who committed malefactions. Nevertheless, have you ever auricularly discerned about the conception which something changes after it’s verbalized fifty times? It was like that. WWII was the time of propaganda and mass media control. There isn’t authentically much proof, if not any whatsoever about categorically only Jews being tortured in camps. You can optically discern pictures, but they don’t genuinely show enough detail to understand whether they were Jew or German. Hitler placed blame on the Jews because Germany went bankrupt after WWI ended, Germany likely wouldn’t subsist today if Hitler hadn’t stood up. Yes the Holocost transpired, but it wasn’t as lamentable as people believe it to be, that’s what media does....
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...Decree of May 27th ordered from June 7th every Jew of the occupied area, older than six years of age should wear a yellow star, the word Jew in black letters on the center sewn up to the left side of his clothes. We, my mom and I went to collect the stars for our family near the Samaritan the Department Store. Three stars for each one they gave us, is to say 12 stars. Mother had to pay something of money. Thereafter the Jews must travel in the last car in the metro. At this office, we found Aunt Sarah, and her sisters. Furthermore, they gave the yellow stars for their families. Moses our cousin passed the demarcation line, Aunt Sara told mom. He stayed in an Agriculture school of a Jewish organization in the South of France. The star sewed up to the clothes’ left side. Almost the entire afternoon mom spent stitching the stars in her clothing, the grandfather’s Jacob’s, and mines. Leah is under six years and not wear the yellow star....
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...start riots. 1. So we packed all our belongings and took whatever we could carry. After purchasing our tickets to sail away, we entered the biggest ship I’ve ever seen. I had many emotions and thoughts rushing through my mind. Feeling nervous about moving to a place I’ve never been… Sad that there’s a war coming to erupt… Worried for the people that we’re leaving behind… Exhausted from stress and not getting enough sleep... What’s really going to happen when we get to America? I hate the feeling of not knowing what’s going to come because I feel then I have to prepare myself for the worse. On the ship there were more than 2,000 Jews. Everybody was very close together and compacted inside. We had to make our own beds and we had to keep each other warm. It took us days, weeks for our arrival. I couldn’t keep track. Some people eventually gotten seasick because of the rocking back and forth. On the deck of the ship was an amazing view of the ocean and the waves. Every night I would make my way to see the stars. It became my little get away to dream and think without all the ruckus during the day. There were very little food but us Jews worked together. At the arrival of the United States of America, we stopped at an island called Ellis Island. We had to speak to officers and showed them our...
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