Aftermath of the Holocaust

The Holocaust, a majority of people know what it is, but a slim number know how this genocide began. When the sun rose over Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia the morning of November 10, 1938, it was filled with smoke of hazy fires. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were burning, across multiple countries. The aftermath of this catastrophic event included many lives lost, a way of life, and buildings burned to ash. Historians call this massive coordinated attack on the Jews by the German reich-…

Maus, a graphic novel, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman has been created to showcase what the Jews experienced throughout the Holocaust. But the novel is not simply a story of surviving the war, but a recollection of how the impacts affected the people involved and generations after them. This is shown through Vladek emotionally not surviving the Holocaust, how generations after still feel the impact and through Vladeks relationship with Mala. Vladek was able to physically survive the…

countries but it wasn’t the same a few decades ago. During the Holocaust, many Jewish people were discriminated, abused, and slaughtered as well as being brutally tortured in countless ways by the Nazis. From being burned alive, to dying of hunger and frigid coldness, there were no possible signs of virtue. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, shares with the world the transfixing experiences as a victim of the horrid event . The holocaust, a systematic mass murder of Jews, contradicts the…

Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? Maybe, it was you heard about it through the Dairy of Anne Franke. It is a brilliant novel informing you on the horrible things that happened during the Holocaust. During the holocaust, over six million Jews were killed. They were murdered by the Nazi’s and the infamous Hitler himself. Adolf Hitler was the leader of these people murdering innocent people, who only was crime was being Jewish. Since when is a religion a crime? These people were murdered for no…

In the aftermath of World War 1 that left Germany feeling guilty and humiliated, the German people were looking for someone to blame. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 had devastating effects on the political stability, economic growth, and military power of the country. From this aftermath rose the fascist dictator Adolf Hitler who convinced the nation that the Jews resulted in the loss of the Great War. In 1933 the Holocaust began and reigned terror on Jews across Europe for close to 12 years,…

the voice for all of these people that have been silenced due to dehumanization. The Holocaust was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany systematically murdered some seven million European Jews. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who chose to be the voice and advocate for people who have been dehumanized. He wrote the Night Trilogy, where he spoke of his experiences and the aftermath. The text addresses the topic of dehumanization, and how this…

World War II. With the progression of the story, the lasting impact of the War and the Holocaust becomes clear. Memories and the past can have an enduring effect on a person’s relationships, personality, and outlook. Memories and the past, two things that are challenging to rid one’s self of, are ever present and can be found throughout relationships. Vladek’s experiences during the War and its aftermath seeped into the pores of his relationship with his wife. “‘A wire hanger you give him!…

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie wiesel was a best selling author, a Jewish Romanian-American writer, a Professor, and a human activist. Wiesel’s novel ‘Night’, as well as many other books dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of the people to fight hatred, racism and genocide. He was focused more on letting the world know his story and the tragedies the Jews have faced through the rough times. The moral lesson throughout his life in…

took place as a result of of the aftermath of World War I. After a humiliating defeat, Germany’s ruined landscape and crippled economy crushed the nation’s spirits and identity. Adolf Hitler, a radical German fascist, seized this opportunity and rose to power. His regime is know as the Third Reich, a policy of “purifying” the the world to fit his delusions, which eventually led to one of the most notorious genocides of the century: the Holocaust. The word Holocaust means “to sacrifice by fire”,…

the time of Hitler’s power and the Holocaust, the Germans justified the killing of millions of Jews because they stood behind Hitler’s belief that Jews were evil and the cause of Germany’s economic decline after WWI. Genocide, is the systematic method of terminating lived based on religion, culture or location in which they live. Eliminating lives using gas chambers or executing with guns are a couple of examples of genocide used during the time of the Holocaust. Concentration camps were set up…