“Council of Elders.” Nazi authority eventually created a Judenrat in every single ghetto there was in Nazi occupied Europe (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, 2007). As the Nazis liquidated Eastern Europe’s ghettos during 1942 and 1943, the Judenrat led doomed communities. In 1944, the Germans destroyed the Aeltestenrat and deported all the remaining members (The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures, 2005). Samuel Zygelbojm served in the Warsaw Ghetto’s First Jewish Council
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Imagine for a minute: you are a teenager that is dedicated to your religion and just a loving person in general. Now, you get ripped from your home and everything you know and are subjected to horrors that you can't even begin to believe are real. This is what happened to the author, Elie Wiesel, in his memoir, Night. Elie faces traumas that make him debate his religion throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, he is spiritual and hopeful, he begins to lose his faith as time passes, and
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By the end of the Holocaust a million of Jews died. Germany and a lot of other countries involved in the Holocaust. Hitler did hate Jews and target them because of many reasons. In Germany, they had things that we couldn't get and we had things that they didn't. Hitler created concentration camps to get rid of Jews. In Europe, Hitler targeted Jews, changed Europe and created many death camps. Hitler seemed to hate or target Jews,why is that? Hitler target Jews because he thought that they were the
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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
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Albert Speer, “The Nazi who said sorry,” was a man recognised for his architectural efforts, his work as the Third Reich’s Armaments minister and his relationship with Adolf Hitler. Before joining the Nazi party Albert Speer was a privileged German man who held Germany’s best interest close to his heart. Hitler’s oratory power lured Speer into the party. After joining the NSDAP Speer’s reputation grew as he was able to cultivate relationships with the right people. These relationships proved to be
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The author of this story is trying to show the innocence of children and racial discrimination. The lesson he is trying to show is how two children who come from two different backgrounds can become friends. Discrimination is something that is taught, children are not born to hate. This story is about a friendship between Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno was not aware of the differences between him and Shmuel. All he cared about was having a friend and he found that in Shmuel. Bruno was a loyal friend to
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Upon reading The Sunflower, your personal account of the horrific atrocities committed during the holocaust, you leave the reader with no definite answer, but a very thought-provoking question about… “What would I have done?”. This question you have placed before the reader is a haunting one and it would be naïve to conclude that the answer would be fairly simple to not forgive Karl. On the other hand, if I am going to hold to my Christian faith and moral values, then yes, I unquestionably would
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In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, dehumanization is a common theme that is demonstrated through the treatment of the prisoners in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel is a fifteen year old, Jewish boy who is forced into Auschwitz, a concentration camp, with his family during the second World War. Elie and his father are separated from the rest of their family upon their arrival at the camp, but they remain together and face the horrors of Auschwitz together. When they arrive at the camp they are mandated to
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Disagreement- “Cases are documented in which German immigrants were forced to kiss the flag, tarred and feathered for resistance or refusal to buy war bonds, and, in extreme instances, beaten and even lynched.” When I read this sentence, it bothered me. Even though Germans symbolized violence and evil, it does not mean that every German would be that way. The Germans who immigrated to U.S. would have a reason why they left their country. One of the reason could be that they did not support their
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southern part of the Ghetto. The Germans fed the Jews very bad when they were there. In 1991 the average Jew in the Ghetto lived on 1,125 a day and the average human now in days is 2,400 calories a day. Czerniakow wrote in his diary for May 8, 1941: “Children starving to death.” Between 1940 and mid-1942, 83,000 Jews died of starvation and disease. The Germans moved about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka and they killed about 35,000 Jews inside the ghetto during the operation. In January 1943, SS
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