Antisemitism

Since the beginning there has always been hardships for certain classes just because of their beliefs or appearances, yet man kind continues to repeat this monstrous cycle. In both Forever and Maus, religion is the key to inflicting social injustice onto a certain group. The central issue in Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, is the Jews being rounded up and exterminated like mice by the German government. While in Forever, written by Pete Hamill, the main issue begins with oppression towards the…

1l million people die in the holocaust, and 6 million are jews. People are stuffed into gas chambers where they are suffocated by the toxic gas consuming them. People are shot by Nazis for not running fast enough, or starved to death because they get little food. Elie Wiesel witnesses these atrocities and is forever changed from the innocent boy he once was. The traumatic experiences Elie undergoes leads him to transform physically,emotionally,and spiritually. The holocaust alters Elie’s…

The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, describes the hardships of Ben Kamm, a Jewish boy, and his family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Ben lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. He and his family managed to survive for a couple of months in the Warsaw Ghetto with a little help from family and friends. Ben had joined the partisans in hope of helping himself,…

“By the Waters of Babylon” Paper In the short story, “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benet, the setting is post-apocalyptic and is about what Benet thought the world would be after the events of WWII. In this story the world was destroyed and people forgot the important knowledge that was known at that time. The simple knowledge they know now is how to hunt, and that there is a place where the gods live. But when the main character, John, goes to the Place of the Gods, which was…

PTSD, also known as post traumatic stress disorder, “derives from situations where persons have been involved in a life threatening event and lived to tell about it” (Calhoun). A group of individuals it affects are Holocaust survivors. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel Meminger survives the consequences of WWII. Although she was not a Jew who went to concentration camps, she still experiences trauma that would leave someone scarred for life. What she experiences during the holocaust was…

Warsan Shire’s poem “Home” describes the atrocities of abandoning a person’s homeland, for reasons like takeover and danger, to the point that the emotions inspired by a homeland become unrecognizable, this cause many to become refugees seeking safety. This can correlate to many real-world events in which people lose their homelands and none is better known than that of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. In particular, this is true for the case of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II…

Discussion Questions 1. In Kluger’s view, should we preserve and visit places such as Auschwitz? What arguments speak for and against it? What is your opinion? In Kluger’s view, we should not necessarily preserve and visit places such as Auschwitz. The author explains her views while talking to graduate students. The students claimed that, “Preservation was a form of restitution” (p. 64). Although they agreed that no one liked the touristy action of people gawking at Auschwitz, they stated…

A Holocaust survivor named Eugene Black was sent to a Jewish camp in 1944 in Hungary. He worked where all the Nazi’s made their V1 and V2 rockets underground. He worked 12-14 hours without sleep or food. So he ended up getting pneumonia, luckily he got saved by a German doctor. He got out on April 15th afterwards he felt survivor’s guilt because he lost his whole family besides his older brother who was working for the Czech Army, this is an example of survivor’s guilt. Survivor's guilt exactly…

Chapter 1 Summary: Their in a small town and people were taken by soldiers Key quotation: “It belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone” Questions/Reflections: What is a Yellow Star? Why were Jews told to wear them? Why did the storyteller and his family get to stay and everyone else was taken? Chapter 2 Summary: The story teller and his family were taken into a train with the rest of the people and were brought to the first camp that they stay at. Key quotation:…

Different Perspectives Towards the Holocaust The Holocaust has revolutionized the globe throughout time, witnessing the gruesome event where more than a thousand victims specifically targeting Jews, have been massacred and tortured by the German union known as Nazis ruled over by Hitler, forming an ideal for the Nazi’s organization to eradicate the Jewish population. During the Holocaust Jewish children, men, women, old and young were sent to camps, where there they were worked to death and if…