Perseverance In The Holocaust

Register to read the introduction… Throughout the Holocaust there has been a struggle to survive and all the Jews could do is endure and persevere the waves of death surrounding them if they ever wanted to make it out alive. One primary example is in Schindler’s List where Mrs. Nussbaum, trying to make the best of the situation just like all the other Jews forced into the ghetto, tells her husband their ghetto apartment could be worse. In “Schindler’s List”, she could’ve cried and felt hopeless but she persevered through the situation and at the end of the movie very well survived through determination and her unbroken spirit. Another example in “Night” is, "We had already lived through so much that night, we thought nothing could frighten us any more. But his clipped words made us tremble. Here the word 'furnace' was not an abstraction: it floated on the air, mingling with the smoke" (39 Night). In this quote from “Night”, Elie was persisting steadily in a course of intense courses of action in Auschwitz but he endured the pain and survived. The final example is from Nuremberg Trials, “Of course, frequently they realized our true intentions and we sometimes had riots and difficulties due to that fact” (290 The Horror of Auschwitz II). This quote from the Nuremberg Trials displays the perseverance of Jews in the Holocaust by the way they fought back to Nazis forces and didn’t give …show more content…
In “Schindler’s List”, death was portrayed when Nazi forces would sneakily and quietly break into innocent Jewish homes where the Jews were hiding and as soon as they heard a noise they opened fire. They evilly killed Jews in their homes while the Jews unknowingly step out of hiding in “Schindler’s List”. Also, there is representation of enormous deaths in the “Nuremberg Trial” is, “I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December. 1943, and estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning, and at least another half million [died of] starvation and disease, making a total dead of about 3,000,000” (290 Nuremberg Trials). The Jews of the Holocaust, especially Auschwitz died in many different ways but the most famous is gas chambers although burning, shooting, and dying of starvation were common. Moreover, the final example of death in “Night” is, “Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes” (65 Night). In this quote from “Night” the little boy is slowly dying from the rope since he’s too light for instant death. Not even children can escape death during the