...There are many reasons on why the Holocaust happened. One of the main reasons was because it was Hitler’s belief that the Jewish people had been responsible for the downfall of Germany at the time. As I just stated, probably the biggest reason on why the Holocaust happened is because Germany’s dictator, Hitler thought that the Jewish people were responsible for the misery that Germany had been going through at the time. What doesn’t make sense is that there had been roughly 550,000 Jewish people (Out of the 66 million percent of the population in the country) that had been contributing to the country’s economy. Another fact is that 10% of the doctors were Jewish, at least 16-20% of lawyers were Jewish and more or less than 5% of Germany’s...
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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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...Why do the survivors of such a tragic event such as the Holocaust want to remember those horrifying times by writing about memories that most people would only want to forget? I will show, Weisel has talked about, and as others have written, that the victims of the holocaust wrote about their experiences not only to preserve the history of the event, but so that those who were not involved and those who did survive can understand what really happened. They wanted the people of the world to realize how viciously they were treated. On top of wanting us to understand, they also want to understand why this happened. Why did the Lord let this happen? Why did the people of the world stand by and let such a thing happen to so many people? Today in the 90's we cannot think of letting so many people suffer, as those seven million people did in the mid-40s. Perhaps the most recognized writer of the holocaust is Elie Wiesel. He was taken from his home and put into the concentration camps when he was still a young boy. Wiesel once said, "I write in order to understand as much as to be understood." He was liberated in 1945 and, once he was liberated "he imposed a ten-year vow of silence upon himself before trying to describe what had happened to him and over six million other Jews." In a lecture on the dimensions of the holocaust Wiesel said, ""The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration" is a contradiction in terms. As in everything else, Auschwitz negates all systems, destroys all doctrines...
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...Elie Wiesel wrote about the Holocaust Memorial in a serious, questioning human society matter. This museum is not an answer to the Holocaust. It is a question mark." This quote represents why did the Nazis do what they did? Why did everything happen? It is a question mark in human society. Previously, I just learned brief parts of the Holocaust: the sign "work makes you free," the crematorium, the starvation, and the display of humans as animals. After visiting this museum and reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, I realized the many sufferings that the prisoners experienced, not just from the Nazis, but from other prisoners as well. During this World War/Holocaust era, humans felt selfish in every situation. There would be unknown events...
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...A lot of unfortunate things happen to people everyday throughout their lives. Sometimes people leave their umbrella at home and some forget to charge their phone before they leave. Conversely the people who were in the Holocaust served over 10 life times of misfortune throughout their time in concentration camps. Their misfortune ranged from being evicted from their homes to having to see family members die in front of their eyes, and all of this happened because the Nazis feared that their religion would harm their racial superiority. The Nazi Holocaust impacted the world in a horrible way and if America didn't help what would’ve happened? This is what this essay will be finding out. Before we can examine America’s impact on the Holocaust we should go over it’s history. The holocaust was a persecution and murder of over six million jews in the world. The Holocaust was ran by the Nazi’s and their collaberating partners. The holocaust started in 1933 because the Germans or Nazis believed that they were racially superior and that the jews were inferior to them and they posed a threat towards the Nazis. Because of this the Nazis basically enslaved them and put them in concentration camps to work or be killed. The nazis forced the jews out of their homes...
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...‘God is to Blame for the Holocaust’ Do you agree? This essay will answer the question ‘Is God to Blame for the Holocaust?’ I will give my argument for why some people may believe that God is to blame and why some may believe that it was others. I will also give my opinion while also writing about how people’s faith may affect their beliefs in God. Many people believe that God is to blame for the Holocaust. God is supposed to be a vision of perfection. Someone who listens to you, loves you and ultimately is there to help you through hardships. If he is all these things then why did he even allow the Holocaust to begin with? God is believed to be all powerful, so he had the power to stop the Holocaust. As mentioned above, God is ‘all loving’...
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...What would you do if you and your family were getting taken out of your house and getting forced to death or never-ending labor? Would you try to escape with your family or would you just take the torture? About ⅓ of the Jewish population were killed in the Holocaust. This book is important because it is a meaningful part of history and it was a very scary and tragic event. It is meaningful because so many people were killed just because they were Jews and that is not right. One good example is when Wiesel writes of everyone in the city getting taken out of their houses and brought to the camp because they were Jewish. They didn’t even know that they were on their way to be tortured and killed. (Weisel 11). I could not imagine ever being in...
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...Elie Wiesel’s Break Of Silence One of the most dreadful events in the history of mankind: the Holocaust during World War II. The holocaust was a genocide of Jews, homosexuals, mentally handicapped, and crippled. The holocaust killed more than six million Jews alone. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who went through the terror of the holocaust and its concentration camp. He tells his story in his book Night. Night reveals how Wiesel lost his family, faith, and innocence to the evil of mankind during the holocaust. Wiesel believes it is important for people today to read this book because they need to be shown how important it is not to keep silent and let something like the holocaust happen again. Elie has some of the most marvelous figurative language throughout the novel, starting off with some metaphors. Elie and the rest of the block are running to a peculiar concentration camp, with no rest Elie starts having speculation of what will happened if he stops running. “ A great ideal wave of men came rolling onward and would have crushed me like an ant” (87). No analysis How does this relate to the author’s purpose? The next phase awkward phrase is about when there was two cauldrons of soup in the middle of the road with no one to guard it. “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in the wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd, free for the taking. But who would dare?” (59) Have you ever been so mad at someone that everytime you talk to them you questioned them with anger or say...
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...“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy,” said Simon Wiesenthal. “After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” Mr. Wiesenthal was just one of the survivors from the brutal Holocaust who will forever remember the worst time of his life. How he was torn away from his family and was used as a slave for the Nazis. Yet he was still able to have sympathy and think about others. The Holocaust had a significant impact on America by giving lessons about genocides and preventing other genocides, how they punished war criminals after the...
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...The diary of a young girl The holocaust for everyone was a terrible thing and horrible things happened to innocent people all because of the Nazis. Then why pick the Jewish people for random reasons? What was the point of the struggle and fights? Was it worth it? Why take away adults lives and children’s like Anne Frank? Anne Frank was just an ordinary girl during the holocaust, but with her diary and the information that was given away, and how well written the diary was she became famous in our century. How Anne frank describes everything as she did and how she told the story she made the diary so explainable. Could such a thing happen again, the Holocaust could happen again? Our decision defines us from making the choices that could help...
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...After reading the book Ordinary Men, Christopher Brown made me realize how terrible the holocaust affected humankind. Not only were humans lost but also a mass amount of religious Jews were held accountable for the downfall of the German empire. Hitler was one of the main leaders of the cause of the holocaust, but in the state of South Carolina we believe the hand of one is the hand of all so Hitler could not have wanted to cause this uprising tragedy all by himself. Germans agreed and supported his theory of the mass killing of all the Jews in Europe, that’s why the holocaust was executed. During the mass destruction of the Jewish population in Germany, Christopher Browning referred to the German murders as ordinary men. Any person that I know has committed such a crime is referred to as a convict. He referred to these men in that nature because these men were young middle-aged civilians with little or no career in law justice as a police officer or any other reinforcement officer. He discovered his knowledge on the men from many different testimonials that were left behind from the frightened...
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...Provide the sources for your supporting research. Using support from your research materials, identify and explain any political, social, economic, or cultural issues that may shape the story. A political issue that shapes my story is the Holocaust. This affect the boy in story because he doesn’t realize what is going on around him and why the girl behind the fence is always so hungry and tired . He didn't know any of this because of Nazi Propaganda. To him everything was fine and didn't have a care in the world besides playing with his friends and going to school. His parents really didn't tell him anything so he was clueless on why he had to move in the first place away from his friends and why his dad lost his job. The Propaganda to him was just Hitler trying to help Germany after the war and get ready for there next but little did he know that this would happen. Source: Nazi Propaganda Imagine what it would be like to live in this situation. Using supporting details from your research, discuss the greatest challenges people might face under these circumstances. Being a child in this situation would be scary if i knew what was actually going on around me. Almost 1.5 million kids got killed during the Holocaust you read right when it says a million to. To even think of that is horrible i cant imagine what those kids could of done today, one of them could have cured a cancer or save people from death right before everyones eyes. Thanks to Hitler we will never...
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...of you, and why? If someone else asked that I would’ve replied by saying that I would’ve became sane and would most likely hurt someone. Being in Elie’s shoes, he lost his mom and his sisters in the beginning. Whenever my parents/sisters come home later than the usual I worry and tear up with just the thought of one of my family not being in this world anymore. Now imagine being Elie, he had just started in the holocaust and he lost people.. Afterwards in page 24 there was a women, Mrs. Schachter, who would cry screaming “Fire! I see fire! I see fire”. Being in the car with her would make me crazy, I would want it to be quiet. With someone screaming while I’m going to a place that I know is dangerous, I’d really like it to be quiet. Throughout the book Elie saw and experienced cruelness, people were being killed thoughtlessly. Seeing this, would make me only think of myself. I...
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...Night Final Essay In one of the great tragedies in the history of mankind, millions of innocent people were sent to their deaths via gas chambers, overwork, disease, and starvation. While all of this is happening, the rest of the world did nothing until it was too late. How could this happen? A mixture of fear and complacency made tragedies like the Holocaust happen. People refuse to speak out against injustice, while the intended targets did little to prepare for the catastrophes. This made it easy for the oppressors to attack their targets since they knew there won’t be opposed by other people. One factor that made it possible for atrocities is other people’s fear of consequences if they did intervene. This discourages many people from even speaking out and gives the impression to the oppressors that what they’re doing is fine....
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...of funny, right? Sure.” This is how it starts: small. Bullying. A form of abuse: involving repeated acts over time attempting to create or enforce one person's (or group's) power over another person (or group). Recently, I have learned the going-on of one of the most tragic events ever, The Shoah. Through this learning I have derived some profound insights into not only myself, but others. My World Geography class researched acts of the Holocaust and discussed them at length. These exercises changed me, forever. They provided an experience that was incredibly valuable in changing my view on a variety of things: the role of bystanders, empathy, the power of little things, and how to react. Therefore, studying the Holocaust has changed my view and reaction to bullying, which is now focused on both recognizing and stopping bullying. The first thing we discussed about the Holocaust was the string of continuous discriminatory acts against the Jews. It was a changing moment for me. Before then, I had supposed the Holocaust as a random act of sorts - an event without roots before it. I was wrong. I learned that bigotry against Jews had been happening for centuries. It started in 70 A.D. and continued building and building and building. This genealogy of Jewish hatred made me rethink how I viewed small acts of bullying within my own life. Now, instead of seeing a small act of bullying and ignoring it, I see that small act as a piece, a piece of a chain that was...
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