Antisemitism

How do we know the Holocaust happened? The Holocaust was a ‘solution’ created by the Nazis to “solve their Jewish problem” Survivors say it started on January 30th 1933 and finished May 8th 1945, when the Nazis were defeated by allied forces. Holocaust deniers usually ignore all the evidence of the event and insist that the numbers and story were invented by the Jews and the Allies for their own benefit. Also, in this essay when I refer to “Jews” or “Jewish people” I am usually meaning Jewish…

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi rule and its collaborators . The Holocaust being merely a culmination of Nazi persecution is true to a large extent and was meticulously planned and preceded by Hitler and his party. Laws of Jewish exclusion were enforced in 1935 and marked the beginning of the Nazi oppression. In1939, Nazi’s then pressured the Jewish society into deportation and Ghettoization before 1942, where…

“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the hands of the Nazis. The Jews’ desire to live…

In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice loss is portrayed in various different ways. The character Shylock, who does not have much to begin with, suffers numerous losses as the play progresses. Some of the losses he experiences are also experienced by the characters in the poems. The character Shylock is constantly dehumanised by the other characters as he was a Jew in a predominantly Christian society, this also happens in the poem ‘Refugee Blues’ by W.H. Auden, which is a poem written in the voice…

The Holocaust was and still is considered one of the most tragic events in history. To sum it all up, it was a series of unfortunate events for not only Jews but Gypsies, homosexuals, the physically/ mentally disabled, and Jehovah 's Witnesses. The Nazi’s killed a total of 11 million people; 6 million were Jews, by the end of World War II in 1945. The police officials incarcerated and placed an abundance of people in concentration camps. These poor and mistreated people went through torturous…

Mendoza the Jew and Religious Tolerance Religious prosecution against Jews was prevalent all throughout European history. The story of Daniel Mendoza in Schechter and Clarke’s graphic history novel Mendoza the Jew perfectly embodies religious prosecution in eighteenth century England. Daniel Mendoza, an 18th century Jewish boxer, fought a battle in and out of the ring against religious prosecution in late 1700’s England. Being born into a deeply religious Jewish family Daniel learned the…

During the holocaust the main idea for the Nazi was to kill the Jews. In this Essay there are many similarities and differences in the Devil's Arithmetic book and the movie. The similarities are how both stories have a allusion, similar characters, and have similar conflicts. But there are many differences, of Rivka’s character, Yitzchak and his family, also the executions of the Jews in the concentration camps. Finally the themes are the importance of your family, and how Hannah had to…

The Fiftieth Gate and Europa Europa There cannot be an absolute truth in the understanding of the event of the Holocaust as both history and memory are merely partial representations of the event. In the bricolage, Fiftieth Gate by Mark Baker and the film Europa Europa (1990) directed by Agnieszka Holland based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, the representation of history and memory seeks not to find an absolute truth but to provide a deeper understanding of the past through the…

It is important to view the Holocaust from different point of views to see how different each person's experience was and how they felt about the actions made by the Nazis. It is good to hear multiple perspectives of people who were Jewish or not and how the war was fought depending on where they lived. For some outsiders it was like nothing was happening, because they were not affected by the actions done by the nazis so they might not have a problem with it. Where for other people who were…

From the beginning of Elie Wiesel’s life in 1928 to the very end in 2016, Wiesel has had an extremely up and down life but the lowest of lows any person could ever endure was WWII. But it got worse when he was placed in the most arguable worst Nazi deaths camps ever; Auschwitz. When Elie was growing up as a Jewish boy in Sighet, Transylvania (present day Romania), he was very religious on his own without the support of his family. He studied Cabbala on his own but his faith wasn’t present…