The Holocaust: A Literary Analysis

For some people the Holocaust is nothing more than a glimpse of the past, others recall the Holocaust like it was just yesterday.But behind the history there were over 6 million Jews that died due to the Holocaust each with a name, each with a life, each apart of this world, each one unique and special, each shown not even a speck of kindness , each treated with such hatred and cruelty all because of a choice of faith, Judaism. The Holocaust was a time of destruction and devastation among the relationship between the Germans and the Jews.For the malevolent dictator Adolf Hitler despised the Jewish faith and believed only in the “perfect” Germans throughout his society,which didn’t consist of Jewish beliefs. Under Hitler’s rule Jews were treated as second class citizens with rules and restrictions Jews had to abide by or suffer the consequences. Over 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and had to endure the malicious wraths of the Nazis and hitler's rule.Literature can help us honor and remember the victims of the Holocaust by keeping the memory alive of both the history and victims of the Holocaust, literature also gives us factual information about the Holocaust that we can also use to reflect shape and inspire today's society , and lastly literature helps us put into perspective the circumstances and sacrifices Jews had to make for their own well being. …show more content…
In the Holocaust people used literature to remember the people and historical events that today we use to remember the past. An example of this is the story from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. In The Diary of a Young Girl Anne states(Pg. 214- 215) “Jews must go to Jewish schools, and many more restrictions of a similar kind. So we could not do this and were forbidden to do that. But life went on in spite of it