Culture of Poland

The absolute horror of the Holocaust has made it difficult and sometimes controversial to depict it in various forms of media. Two such works of art, Son of Saul and Maus, take very unique approaches to trying to capture the experiences of the Holocaust. Both works share key themes such as the importance of family in maintaining hope and the perpetrator conflict with Jews and Poles. Of course, the two works aren’t exactly the same and there are some major thematic differences. Perhaps the most…

Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman. While on its Exterior it is about Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences in the holocaust, there is also much more. In multiple ways, the relationship between Art Spiegelman and his father Vladek Spiegelman is the main story in the book, and this story experiences many feelings of guilt. Most of that guilt is linked with members of the family. The narrative consists of three main forms of guilt, Art’s emotional state of guilt on not being a good son to his…

Done By: Kamal Adiab Reasons for Government Regulation of E-cigarettes Governments need to regulate the use of e-cigarettes for two reasons. Firstly, the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes are unknown (1). Information on safety and potential benefits vs. harms are also unknown; furthermore, studies show that e-cigarettes contain nicotine and may also contain other harmful chemicals, including carcinogens and lung irritants (2). The studies showed that the chemicals found in two leading…

The Holocaust In the middle of World War Two, in German occupied Poland, with the Holocaust starting to form, the majority of the Jewish population were executed by simple civilians as well the “ordinary men” who had been recruited into the numerous police battalions who were ordered to execute Jews on site. To some degree, the Jewish chances of survival depended on the aid of the polish civilians and the gentiles that were at just as much risk for German persecution as they were. As Niewyck…

Explaining the graphic novel of “Maus” Maus is a very unique comic book very different from other comic books this comic book tells us about a horrify event. Maus tells us a story of a person that survivor the Holocaust his own father Vladek. The comic book use animals instead of people and the use different animals for different race. This helps the reader understand more what is going on then having human characters. Maus is more affective as a graphic novel because it involves horrifying…

The Holocaust was an event where Jews were considered inhuman and not worthy of living. The stories during this time were told by lucky survivors as well as through the famous diary written by an optimistic Jewish girl named Anne Frank. The planned genocide was one of the reasons why people felt sympathy towards the Jews, and the need to help. Chiune Sugihara was one of these people. Sugihara was a Consul-General from Japan who traveled to Lithuania at the beginning of World War II and decided…

Council of the Four Lands – Great Poland ;( Posen); Little Poland (Cracow; Red Ruthenia around Lemberg and Volhynia, now North-west Ukraine). The Jews of Poland formed a nation within a nation. After In 1764 the Polish Parliament (Diet) dissolved the Council of Four Lands, Kahillas (decentralized Councils) replaced them as its judicial, religious, and charitable institutions, constituting a unit of self-government. In addition. The subsequent partitions of Poland among Russia, Austria, and…

59. Blitzkrieg into Poland: Poland was a fairly recent country formed, so it didn’t have much military resistance. On September 1, 1939, the Germans firebombed the polish nation into oblivion with a new tactic, known as blitzkrieg, which is when a group of planes drop some bombs, then some more, and continue the process another 20 or 30 times. 60. Hitler, Nazism: This is a more radical idea of fascism heavily emphasized in the German empire. It is extreme totalitarianism mixed with extreme…

and Rosa were best friends, they were happy before the war stared. They had their own secret language that they would communicate in. They met once they were about 14, Erna met her at her moms’ sewing workshop, Rosa learned the trade of sewing really fast. Erna said that they were sitting talking before the war had erupted. They would only see people walking around that they have not seen.The Russians arrived to Czernowitz 1940; Erna said that the disaster started when the Romanians put up…

The processes in which the Germans were involved in to overcome the tragedies of World War II were vast and long. There were many complications present when the war ended; Germans found themselves questioned politically and mentally by their own compatriots, as well as outsiders. This essay will argue that the film The Murders Are Among Us depicts the complications involved in the German process of “overcoming the past,” post-World War II, through its characters. In particular, this essay will…