Many characters in pieces of literature are characterized as strong, brave, and courageous. The Resistance of Auschwitz in the novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe are unique in which they are quietly revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of…
The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…
Gitta Sereny’s book, Into that Darkness, explores the life of a man known as Franz Stangl. Stangl was a head Nazi official who ran two death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka, in Austria throughout the Holocaust. After the war was over, Stangl was able to evade the law for nearly 20 years. He went into hiding in Syria until his family, wife and daughters, were able to move to him. They eventually fled Europe and the middle east by taking a transport ship to South America. Once in Brazil, Stangl…
Art has always been a profoundly unique human catalyst for expressing hope, inspiration, communication, and passion. As one of the darkest events in human history, the Holocaust (1933-1945) served as the story that suffering artists needed to share with the world. As a German-Jewish artist who died in Auschwitz, Felix Nussbaum, said right before his death in 1944, “When I perish, do not allow my pictures to die with me. Show them to the people.” Though the Holocaust is one of the most tragic…
German soldiers watched their victims die while Milgrim’s subjects were assured by the experimenter that the shocks “may be painful, but they’re not dangerous” (1). But is such an argument actually valid? Most antagonistic authority figures like Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazis would have never acknowledged the immorality of their regimes to anyone, especially the underlings who were appointed to do their dirty work; therefore, Milgram’s 25 obedient subjects should not have been so easily…
The Holocaust took six million Jews’ lives. The nazis and Adolf Hitler were in control. There were many concentration camps that took place during this prejudice time. Most people suffered. There were many causes of death. During the year of 1944, Elie and his family were taken into Auschwitz, a traumatizing concentration camp. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the theme as humanity vs. inhumanity. First, the SS men took away the prisoners’ names, including Elie’s.They also called them…
Concentration Camps During the time of the Holocaust, many destructive concentration camps were built. Adolf Hitler built these camps to kill the Jews as well as other undesirables throughout Germany and all of Europe. These camps had atrocious living conditions with many of the prisoners dying of starvation, disease, and execution. In addition to torturing and eventually executing most of the prisoners in the camps, the Germans also used them to perform hard manual labor that was necessary to…
their primary concern is to genuinely educate and instill their vision to the public. The founding of the survivors truly enlightens the honest history of the Holocaust without degrading other aspects such as Hitler’s beliefs and regime. Although Adolf Hitler is one of the key elements to the Holocaust, the museum, in a respectful way, embrace unity in the Jewish community, rather than…
The holocaust was one of the worst genocides taken place in history. Eleven million innocents lives were taken by a mass murder, Adolf Hitler. He deliberately killed millions of people just because they were Jewish. With today’s society, it will be impossible for something like that to reoccur. Today’s massive access to the internet and social media will make it impossible to hide and not take action on what was occurring, we also no longer have a dictatorship like they had back in the day, and…
noticed that the woman is pregnant with the child. Throughout his video he regularly uses the rhetorical context, which consist of ethos, pathos, and logos or the fact that he is using credible sources, emotions, and logic to capture his listeners. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis’ and the reason…