Ashkenazi Jews

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…

Adolf Hitler’s childhood and young adult years had a sequence of unfortunate events that led him to develop a hatred for the Jews. On April 20, 1889, Adolf was brought into the world by his mother, Klara, and his father, Alois, near the German border in Braunau, Austria (Mishra). Alois, despite his rejection in society due to his illegitimate birth and underprivileged beginnings, worked his way up to an acceptable position in society from exceptionally poor beginnings (Weinberg). Klara was an…

The Devil’s Arithmetic, ADD jews to camps, SUBTRACT them from societies lives, MULTIPLY the Jewish problems, DIVIDE the existence of the Jewish population. Every kind of person Adolf Hitler hated when found, would have been tossed into a concentration camp. Those camps and facilities brutalized and shaped the survivors of the Holocaust the people know today. The novel of The Devil’s Arithmetic helps the world remember those events, more than the movie, from its describing of the choosing's,…

is placed under quarantine and health teams are set up. The rats that bring the plague and the sentries that keep the people within the town’s boundaries represent the Nazi army that attacked France. Those who are infected by the plague represent Jews, anti-fascists and other dissidents who were marginalised and killed by the Nazi. The sealed gates around Oran represent the borders that were created to control Jewish access to certain territories. Finally, the uninfected citizens of Oran…

Khensane Mawela MYP English 10F Mrs. Jennifer Hunter 08 December 2015 Literary Analysis of Night by Elie Wiesel Horrific events like the Holocaust need to be remembered as long as history doesn’t find a way of repeating itself. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, 12 year old Eliezer has been removed from the house he grew up in, in Transylvanian town, to ghettos and different concentration camps. Eliezer’s story takes place in Germany during the 1940s. In this autobiography, Eliezer’s character is…

Compare the ways prejudice is shown in ‘An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley and ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck. By Lauren McMillan In this assessment I will be showing the prejudice that is shown in ‘An Inspector Calls’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’. Prejudice is a form of hate shown mainly towards groups of people for no reason other than, the colour of their skin or their genders, etc. Prejudice has caused mass oppression in different cultures and cities e.g. human slavery and racist…

Answer: The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history, and an estimated 12,000 people lost their lives. Goran Simic wrote this poem to convey and express his experiences of helplessness, horror, death and fear in Sarajevo during this dreadful useless siege. The title itself implies the sadness and misery the capital of Bosnia was suffering from. “Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no…

Juliette Dougherty ELA 12/Sec. 08 Ms. Diamond 31 March, 2018 Hester Prynne's transformation throughout The Scarlet Letter Justine Sacco sent out one tweet, and that was all it took to ruin her life. From the time she sent the tweet, to the time she stepped off the plane in Africa her entire life had changed. The entire world's eyes were on her, and they were intent on ruining her life. She lost her job, her face was plastered all over the media as a racist, and she was receiving death threats.…

were treating the Jews. Despite it being against the law, the Ten Boom family decided to lie in order to keep the Jews safe. In this case it is just to lie in because they are lying for the greater good of saving lives. When people make decisions they weigh the pros and cons, so when it came to the time where Corrie made her decision, she knew the good most definitely outweighed the bad. Corrie made the decision to lie and save the Jews because they are still people, it…

Chapter I Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Eugen Berthold Freidrich known as Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in an upper-middle class family in Augsburg. The director of paper mill, Brecht’s father believed in Catholicism. The interesting fact is that his parents had a mixed Catholic-Protestant marriage and Brecht was mainly brought up by his mother’s Protestant faith. He attended elementary school and grammar school in Augsburg and his patriotism soon changed into pacifism in 1914 when…