How Does the Media Shape Meaning In History: The Holocaust?
The holocaust has been represented through many different forms of media over the years. Because the holocaust is depicted through different mediums, such as photographs, novels, museum exhibits and films, the viewpoint and the message conveyed throughout the mediums are different. This difference of perspective consequently depends on who and what documented the historical events at the time, as these factors will determine the impacts and the perceptions of history, therefore shaping a different meaning each time.
Many photographs taken during World War II, especially “The Last Jew of Vinnitsa”, signify the holocaust more appropriately than words. Photographs capture a single moment …show more content…
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust Is a memoir written by Livia Bitton-Jackson, representing the Holocaust through the eyes of Ellike Freidmann, a Thirteen-year-old Hungarian, Jewish girl who was exposed to the horrid consequences of being a Jew during World War II. It provides an eyewitness account of the daily life within the ghetto of Nagymnagyar, and the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Kraków-Płaszów, Dachau, the sub-camps of Mühldorf and Waldlager as well as working in the Michelwerke factory complex in Augsburg. It signifies the extreme physical and emotional harshness she undertook because of the holocaust, as well as the incredible bonding experience she and her mother shared throughout the journey to their supposed death. Memoirs, especially those written in first person, re-telling the holocaust give the reader a graphic insight of the daily struggle of a Jewish individual living in an anti-Semitic period. It also creates a sense of immediacy throughout the novel. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust portrays the holocaust through the accumulation of hardships and horrors the author suffered during her teenage years which she predominately lived in the …show more content…
In each separate time, and in each form of media, different perspectives, events and ideas have been represented. These representations, however, don’t reach the proximity, the extent of the terrors and the inhumane acts performed to a minority group, furthermore no words or photographs can indicate the totality of the occurrence, and nobody will ever discover why it happened and how exactly decimating an entire aspect of the human population became so large and accepted. History and media will never capture how the killers or the victims felt or what traumatic experiences they were exposed to, simply because the holocaust’s complexity and severity is hard to grasp. The inability the media has with accurately representing the holocaust, is preponderantly overruled with the consciousness to remember the millions of people who perished in the event, and with each attempt to represent the genocide, people become more aware of the damage and through the collective analysis of multiple holocaust representations, an indication of what the holocaust was for those who experienced
The holocaust has been represented through many different forms of media over the years. Because the holocaust is depicted through different mediums, such as photographs, novels, museum exhibits and films, the viewpoint and the message conveyed throughout the mediums are different. This difference of perspective consequently depends on who and what documented the historical events at the time, as these factors will determine the impacts and the perceptions of history, therefore shaping a different meaning each time.
Many photographs taken during World War II, especially “The Last Jew of Vinnitsa”, signify the holocaust more appropriately than words. Photographs capture a single moment …show more content…
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust Is a memoir written by Livia Bitton-Jackson, representing the Holocaust through the eyes of Ellike Freidmann, a Thirteen-year-old Hungarian, Jewish girl who was exposed to the horrid consequences of being a Jew during World War II. It provides an eyewitness account of the daily life within the ghetto of Nagymnagyar, and the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Kraków-Płaszów, Dachau, the sub-camps of Mühldorf and Waldlager as well as working in the Michelwerke factory complex in Augsburg. It signifies the extreme physical and emotional harshness she undertook because of the holocaust, as well as the incredible bonding experience she and her mother shared throughout the journey to their supposed death. Memoirs, especially those written in first person, re-telling the holocaust give the reader a graphic insight of the daily struggle of a Jewish individual living in an anti-Semitic period. It also creates a sense of immediacy throughout the novel. I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust portrays the holocaust through the accumulation of hardships and horrors the author suffered during her teenage years which she predominately lived in the …show more content…
In each separate time, and in each form of media, different perspectives, events and ideas have been represented. These representations, however, don’t reach the proximity, the extent of the terrors and the inhumane acts performed to a minority group, furthermore no words or photographs can indicate the totality of the occurrence, and nobody will ever discover why it happened and how exactly decimating an entire aspect of the human population became so large and accepted. History and media will never capture how the killers or the victims felt or what traumatic experiences they were exposed to, simply because the holocaust’s complexity and severity is hard to grasp. The inability the media has with accurately representing the holocaust, is preponderantly overruled with the consciousness to remember the millions of people who perished in the event, and with each attempt to represent the genocide, people become more aware of the damage and through the collective analysis of multiple holocaust representations, an indication of what the holocaust was for those who experienced