Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

The Holocaust was one of the most documented and widely talked about massacres known to mankind. The torture and devastation that was brought about to the victims of that time is widely documented and memorials and museums have been erected across the globe in remembrance. But the assault and torture that the victims felt was not purely physical but psychological as well. The physical pains, though tremendous, stay with a singular generation for their entire lives. The psychological pains…

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 physical…

As was mentioned in chapter two, the Holocaust is one of the main subjects memory culture is concerned with, but in Cambodia there is a “widespread belief that mass atrocity is unique to Cambodia” (29). Therefore, the ‘Anne Frank Translation Project’ was introduced “to offer Cambodians a way to make sense of the Khmer rouge genocide within the broader framework of the world history of atrocity”, so the Cambodians stop feeling like they are the only ones who suffered (29). Furthermore, the term…

lost, along with a great sense of pride. My favorite quote that I came across in studying about repatriation is from the speech given during the repatriation ceremony of Julian Falat’s paintings. "No one can ever provide just compensation to the victims of the Nazis ' atrocities, but it is very gratifying for our office to play a role in returning the art that they looted during World War II to its rightful owners," New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara gave this statement. I find this to be…

Poetry and thought are often interpreted as too lofty for the realm of politics, a realm dominated power (Berlin: 2004). Yet memory, as elaborated by poets should always be an exercise in education. The value of narrative, writing, and poetry is high. For ‘the very fact that so great of an enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing…

torch lit A memory is usually something that impacts the life of someone so much it leaves a part behind that can 't be forgotten. Memories can bring back positive times, but also all the frightful, things that changed life without warning. The Holocaust is an event in history that has affected so many people, ending up affecting history itself. Not only does this catastrophe bring back horrible memories for people, but also a haunting thought about the future and this happening again. A…

forever A memory is usually something that impacts the life of someone so much it leaves a part behind that can 't be forgotten. It bring back good times, but can also bring back all the bad, horrible things that changed life without a warning. The Holocaust is an event in history that has affected so many people, ending up affecting history itself. Not only does it bring back bad memories for people but also a haunting thought about the future and this catastrophe happening again. A surviver…

SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. By Walter L. Williams. Beacon. 344 pp. $21.95. Last September the Holocaust Memorial Council, created by congress in 1980. held its first annual day of remembrance for the thousands of gypsies murdered during the Third Reich. No such commemoration has been accorded to another group of Hitler's victims: the homosexual men who were arrested, imprisoned and killed between 1933 and 1945. Some…

The books Night and The Book Thief both reflect that The Holocaust was a time of suffering for Jews. The books both demonstrate that we remember the past to understand and in doing so understand sacrifice and bravery, understand suffering, and understand their perspectives. Both books demonstrate character bravery, demonstrate views of how Jews were being treated, and demonstrate beliefs and perspectives. The Book Thief is a book about a girl named Liesel. Her mother was a communist and she…

Bystanders We are the future, we have the power to decide whether we are bystanders or not. From previous tragedies we have all seen, whether behind a screen or have personally witnessed it, the consequences the Bystander Effects brings. Take the Holocaust for example, many people stood on the outside observing what happened inside those concentration camps, and yet no one did anything about it. No one stood up for the thousands of Jews being discriminated with agonizing pain night after night.…