Aftermath of the Holocaust

refers to violent crimes committed against national, ethnical, racial or religious groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. 1 Lemkin first introduces the word to describe the Nazis murder and destruction of the Jews. Since the Holocaust, genocide has been established to be an international crime, which enforced nations “undertake to prevent and punish.” Although the push for laws and punishments to be made for genocide have been made, preventing genocide remains a challenge…

Carrie rebelled, after which she was heavily punished: “-the time she had found that picture of Flash Bobby Pickett under Carrie’s pillow-and Carrie had once fainted from the lack of food and the smell of her own waste” (King 43). The depressed, post-holocaust tone of the book is reflective of Carrie’s state of mind. Suppressing her power, her natural feelings, and her emotions in fear of displeasing Momma, Carrie had to pretend she was something she wasn’t for a very long time. She had to run…

strangers or family. These prisoners suffered the same fate and those that were taken into the gas chambers were given the chance for justice even if they only killed one S.S soldier in custody. In Flares of Memory : Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust by Chamovitz, Sheila and Anita Brostoff they depict what the American soldiers saw after they were able to release the prisoners: His tour, conducted by a camp internee, relates details of the prisoners’ lives and shows us the…

My argument on Ursula Le Guin’s “The ones who walk away from Omelas” was constructed using an analysis by Ted Andra, a professor at Utah State University, as a secondary source. In Andra’s argument, I noticed that he placed a majority of the focus on both on comparisons between this utopian society and our own, and how the narrator laid out the image of Omelas. Only a measly two sentences are given to address the children who turn away from Omelas, and of those two there isn’t much said about…

Moore created this painting as part of a memorial which contains 17 other paintings that display the aftermath of the Holocaust. Moore was known to be the official war artist of the 20th century and because of his wonderful talent we now have a little bit of history first hand from looking at these pieces of art. Although, this may come across as a horrific photo…

In 1994, the world witnessed one of the most horrific genocides in recent memory. As reported by the BBC, in the small African country of Rwanda, the conflict between two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, had been brewing for decades but throughout the colonial period, tensions rose substantially, ultimately ending in the bloody massacre now known as the genocide against the Tutsi. Belgian colonizers, who deemed the Tutsis to be preferable to the Hutus, created an even stronger divide by…

The color line remains real. During the most horrific time in American history, slavery, a holocaust far worse than any other, happened here on American soil, and the remnants lay buried in each of us. Time may have blurred and smudged the line a bit, and we may feel that we have progressed very far as a country, but the color line still exists. While some conservatives blame African Americans for their slow progress in assimilation, African American authors portray a different story.…

during the Reconstruction era. Eliciting a variety of thematic interpretations, Beloved has been variously categorized as a Gothic romance, a ghost story, a holocaust novel, and a feminist doctrine, and critics extol Morrison’s use of historical detail, startling imagery, and African-American colloquialisms in portraying the emotional aftermath of slavery in America. Toni Morrison looks at the writing of the novel Beloved as a revisionist history, where she projects a factual account of the…

This reading discusses the events leading up to the British Mandate as well as the after effects of its implementation. The Balfour Declaration announced British support of Zionism, provided that no injustice was done to the native Arab population. The Declaration became solidified in international law when the League of Nations wrote it into the British Mandate for Palestine. While Zionist saw this as a long-awaited charter and renewed hope after the brutal years of WWI, Arabs viewed it as…

Adolf Hitler once said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” (Hitler 172). This essential belief became the basis of the Nazi Party’s regime and rise to power. The size of the Nazi Party at its formation was infinitesimal in comparison to the powerhouse it grew into. Its surge to power was not a result of simply violence and hard-power utilization, but rather due to effective strategy and a great deal of luck. The economic and socio-political…