Antisemitism

Systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime. That is the Holocaust. Many people survived to tell their stories of suffering and torture. One of the most prominent survivors was Elie Wiesel. The book Night was written by Elie Wiesel. The book is about Elie and his family in the 1940s who were sent to concentration camps by the German Nazis. The mother and youngest daughter were sent to the gas chamber as soon as they arrived. Elie and…

Aaron Cole November 20, 2017 Professor Brozgal Paper 2 Murder in Memoriam: Discovery of Truth Taking influence on real historical events, Didier Daeninckx’s prize winning second novel—Murder in Memoriam—crafts the widely known historic reality of the Holocaust with the overlooked tragedy known as the massacre of Algerians on the 17th of October in 1961. The two events are expertly crafted to create a world of universal truth at last acknowledged. Tying these histories together by use of…

The Holocaust was a mass murder, or genocide, of six million Jews from 1933-1945 during World War II. It was a horrific historic event and time period that destroyed millions of lives, families, and minds. The holocaust majorly affected people not only physically, but also emotionally. The books, Night and Maus, are two well known works of literature about the Holocaust and the traumatic toll it took on its victims. Night is a personal account of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust experience, however Maus…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a prize winning masterpiece work on history and memoir. The book narrates the story of Spiegelman’s father in Poland at the advent of World War 11 and how he turned out to be a second generation Holocaust survivor. This literary work draws so much comparison with Elie’s work in the book Night. Elie’s work is more of a memoir just as it is with Art’s work. These two characters survive a difficult period in their life and they therefore end deciding to put their personal…

The Holocaust has been a dark time in history for mankind. It is the most commonly known genocide that has ever existed. Genocide is the systematic killing of a group because of their race, gender, and religion. The memoir is about a jewish teenager names Eliezer Wiesel and his life in Hungary. After the Germans invade Hungary, Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp. The book is about the family’s life and the horrors they experience that will changes them forever. The memoir…

Martin Luther’s legacy of writings against the Jews is very well known in theological and historical circles, which have been pondering over the meanings behind the writings and the factors that influenced Luther’s views of the Jews. A close reading of Luther’s works regarding the Jews reveals a major change in both tone and content from generally conciliatory and amiable to violent, vitriolic rants against the Jewish People. Luther’s tone is not the only aspect of his writings on Jews that…

IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an…

Litearay Ananlyisis “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the main theme is silence. Silence is the main theme because it caused the Jews to lose everything they held dear. As a result of their silence, the Jewish people lost their lives, freedom, and homes. The first negative effect silence had on the Jewish people was that is caused them…

My first remarkable fact is the resistance Jews showed against the Nazis. The story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was something I 've never learned about before, I always thought “why didn 't the Jews fight back?” when in reality they did. The Jewish Fighting Organization was very inspiring to learn about. To fight against something so disgusting and inhuman was so brave for those last 700 Jewish teenagers. They didn 't let the daunting numbers of the Nazis scare them away nor did they let the…

Think of some of the worst people in the history of the world. For example, think of the Nazi’s - there have been several stories of Nazi’s helping Jewish people escape from torture, which is sympathy from some of the worst people in the world. In the Science Fiction novel The Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, the main character Ender Wiggins perfectly portrays this because of his mix of violence that he gets from his brother and his innocence that he gets from his sister.. One important…