Holocaust Essay

Today Andres and his younger brother, Joshua, went to the Holocaust Museum with their school. They were the only ones with a grandfather who had died in the Holocaust. The museum was very beautiful and posh, all made of black marble, like millionaires’ houses. It was full of sad black-and-white pictures and lists of people, countries, and dead people. Andres walked past the pictures and his teacher said: "Don 't touch!" But Andres did touch one picture, made of cardboard, showing a thin, pale…

Oprah Winfrey takes popular novelist and Holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, back to Auschwitz, where he endured the most horrifying treatment from man during the Holocaust. Nearly 1.1 to 1.5 million people died at Auschwitz death camp. Elie was only 15 when he was sent to Auschwitz. He was taken there by cattle cars that had thousands of jews packed into them. These journeys were torturous. Elie tells Oprah of when he was in the car, a women he knew screamed, “fire” which in actuality was flames…

Throughout history there have been clear, distinct time periods that are now synonymous with discrimination, prejudice, and hate. The era of slavery in the United States, and the Holocaust in Europe. While both of these are horrible in their own way, they are both connected by “the root of all evil”; money. Slavery was fueled by the need for free labor. Calls for civil war from the south came from fears of the economy being ruined if slavery was abolished. In Germany, Adolf Hitler rose to power…

Thoughts on the Holocaust These are my thoughts on the Holocaust and the movie Schindler’s List. First impression is that the killing of humans is wrong, especially to the point of extinction. It’s just inhuman, people who could take orders to do that to people and some of the Nazi’s General would kill for fun. I see it personally has a sign of evil, it’s just pure evil. Schindler’s List was truly an amazing, and just a great story. Oskar Schindler was wonderful at the beginning, and to the…

Imagine the common race of the people being slaughtered on a mass scale and living in fear 24/7. The Jewish people in The Holocaust did not just imagine that, but lived it. The holocaust was the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II (Merriam-Webster np). In the Holocaust, Jewish women had it the worst. Many events during the Holocaust led to the oppression of Jewish women such as concentration camps, sexual violence, and unethical…

would change the history of all civilization. An event that would lead to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, a near annihilation of an entire group of people, and a redistribution of world power that is still affecting us today. The “Holocaust” began when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and lasted for a dozen blood-drenched years. In that time World War 2 started (1939-1945) and it has received the distinction of being the deadliest war in the history of mankind (60-85 million…

“As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, or bearing witness, and of education must continue.” The previous quote was stated by Holocaust survivor, Dan Gillerman. This was the thought of everyone who was involved in the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. During the year of 1978 the museum began as an idea, that is now visited by 2 million people annually. The job of the Holocaust Memorial Council was to create a living memorial…

The Holocaust was an awful time for many people, not just the Jews. About six million Jews passed away. The Frank family was one of the millions of families affected by the Holocaust. The whole family died with the exception of Mr. Frank. The Frank family was lucky that they lasted as long as they did. Most Jews were sent to concentration camps way before the Frank family was found. The Holocaust is a event to be remembered. The historical events of the Holocaust majorly impacted the people in…

night sky in different shades of blue with bright yellow stars, this shows the goodness in the world before the Holocaust. The Jewish flag ordinarily shows the honor of the Jewish people, but the flag was adopted after the Holocaust. It still brings pride and honor to Jewish people today, so consequently I drew it. The black and white side is made to show the merciless life during the Holocaust, it still…

Should schools teach about the Holocaust? I absolutely think that schools should teach about the Holocaust because people need to know what happened and how millions of Jews died. 1939-1945 was a very difficult and heartbreaking time for non German people, mostly Jewish people. Hitler thought Germans were superior, if someone didn’t have blue eyes, blond hair, and weren’t German, Germans wanted to get rid of them. Jewish people were forced out of their homes and taken to camps and or the ghetto.…