The book, Neighbors: the Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, is written by Jan Tomasz Gross. The book takes place in a small town in Poland called Jedwabne where the Jews were humiliated, tortured, and murdered. On July 10th, 1941, 1,600 of the remaining Jews were burned alive, including women and children. Jan’s compelling book explores the atrocities on how such ordinary men, Polish neighbors, terrorized the Jewish community. He reconstructs the events that led up to the Polish citizens being more than willing to kill their Jewish neighbors without being forced to by the German Units.…
Entry 13 : BREAKING NEWS! Today in August 4, 1944, we have just discovered eight Jews hiding in the attic of an office building. I suspect they were hiding in the attic to avoid the terrible fate of the Holocaust. Unfortunately their efforts are in vain when German officials got information from some anonymous person about the location of their hiding spot. Nazis forcefully entered the office building and found the families.…
Night Essay It was not only a day of fear, but a day of whether or not you were going to be able to look back at and say “I survived”. January 30th 1933, was one of the scariest day’s for some people. Getting abducted from their homes and taken to camps, the Holocaust had begun.…
“Avenge the blood of the Polish ghetto” Over 11 million people died during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. During the later years of World War 2, Nazis started ordering all Jews to live within a certain area, called a ghetto. Some ghettos began as an “open” environment, which meant the Jewish residents could leave their homes, and community during the day but must come home before curfew. Later, they were forced to be “closed” ghettos, trapping the Jews inside the confined ghetto. The largest ghetto was located in Warsaw, the metropolis of a young girl, named Miriam Wattenberg… Miriam Wattenberg was born in Lodz Poland, October 10, 1924.…
The Dark Soul: An Annotated Bibliography April is a month to never forget, as it is one of the most despicable crimes ever known in the human history, so that it will never again be repeated. Adolf Hitler referred it to “The Final Solution.” We now know it as the Holocaust. We know it as what it was, racism, hate and pure, unadulterated evil. “Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (IA).…
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its followers. Alfred Munzer was a kid who survived The Holocaust. Alfred was born on November 23, 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands. Alfred survived the Holocaust because he was rescued by an Indonesian family living in the Netherlands. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.…
Night Essay College Prep Lit Amiah DeWolf The beginning of an appalling genocide came about in 1933. In the year of 1944, Elie Wiesel’s family and himself were pulled out of their home and forced by Germans to give up their humanity. Along with them being stripped of their dignity, the existing bonds between his and other Jewish families were torn apart.…
The Holocaust, a majority of people know what it is, but a slim number know how this genocide began. When the sun rose over Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia the morning of November 10, 1938, it was filled with smoke of hazy fires. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were burning, across multiple countries. The aftermath of this catastrophic event included many lives lost, a way of life, and buildings burned to ash. Historians call this massive coordinated attack on the Jews by the German reich- the Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.…
During the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity. Armed/unarmed resistance is when Jewish holocaust prisoners resisted against the Nazis as one big group. Whether they did It with weapons or not they wanted to keep their humanity. Throughout occupied Poland, hundreds of clandestine schools and classes were organized inside the ghettos. Going to and from class in various apartments and basements, students hid their books under their clothing.…
When the first sign of tragedy occurred (the ghettos),…
On April 19, 1943 the Nazi soldiers came into the ghetto and killed everyone they saw. Also 55,000 people were killed. The Nazi took back control of the ghetto. They sent the rest of the people still alive to Treblinka. The first uprising inspired many other ghettos to try to stand up.…
When the Nazis took Lublin during World War II, they stripped the interior of the yeshiva and burned the vast library in the town square. The cries of the Jews watching their yeshiva and holy books burn to the ground were so loud that the Germans called for the army band to come and stifle their cries of…
“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” (Elie Wiesel).…
The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” (Nobelprize.org )…
“Then came the ghetto”(Wiesel 9). Before the Germans made the jews move to the concentration camp they were moved to the ghetto. They were two ghettos set up in Sighet. A large on in the center of the town, with four streets, and a smaller one extended over several small side streets in the outlying district. THen in the following morning the GErmans moved the jews to their concentration camp.…