Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

punishment. Not only is it almost impossible to imagine life during this time period, it is difficult to conceive the sheer pain and ramifications that millions of Jews endured and suffered during the Holocaust. The Holocaust…

Celeste Davis Mrs. Reynolds Adv Hon English 16 February 2017 Eva Mozes Kor: A Holocaust Survivor Eva Mozes Kor survived one of the most terrifying events in history--the Holocaust, the genocidal killing of millions of people targeted by Nazi Germany. In March 1944, soldiers forced Eva, her twin sister, Miriam, and their family away from their home in Romania. They were deported to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Eva and Miriam were…

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” (Dorinson). The definition of faith upholds two meanings. One being faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something and the other being a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion. In the case of war, both defintions of faith are combined as one meaning in the eyes of a soldier. Soldiers have faith in many things such as family, God, self, fellow soldiers, and…

With recent events taking place in the United States, a specific term is being used: “white guilt.” Similar to collective guilt, white guilt is this notion of feeling guilty for the mistreatment of minorities by white people. White guilt in America, however, differs from the collective guilt of the Germans in the sense that when white Americans express their white guilt, they do it for the purpose of trying to distance themselves from the injustices done to minorities and to try to prove their…

The shawl itself is described as a “magical shawl” because it could “nourish an infant for three days and three nights” (The Shawl). The shawl is also a literary symbol of the tallit, or a Jewish Prayer Shawl (Puffer-Rothenberg); those who wear this symbol of faith may be “surrounded by the holiness and protection of the commandments” (The Shawl).…

death. Collective memory is a main focus the author uses to interpret the remembrance and shape cultural identity. The author’s exploration of collective memory and collective guilt brings together a lesson…

with new laws that there wasn 't years ago during the holocaust. This gave a new environment, way of thinking, and the freedom from all that could have come along and affect today. Although this was a big impact for Jews in a very negative way, it was also a positive way for providing laws that we use now. This is a history event that will never forget nor the families for those who were victims, but it is something we can take in remembrance as respect and…

as doing something violent. “Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim…” (para. 9). This quote is presented in a logical way and is understood by the reader. It gets the reader to reflect and also sees how indifference always benefits the aggressor. With indifference always benefiting the enemy it is worse than…

for them to attend any other educational institution. Authorities would frequently take children to schools far from their home communities as part of a strategy to alienate them from their kin and traditions. Children attending the schools were victims of corporal punishment, deplorable living conditions, rationing of food, sexual assaults, and many other crimes. The process segregated…

Even though the Passion Narratives of the four Gospels are very alike in numerous of ways, there are also many important differences among them.The three Synoptic Gospels correlate with one another (because Matthew and Luke go off of Mark), while John’s writings are much different, especially when it comes to chronology. Also, while Matthew and Mark are very similar to each other and almost the same, Luke is different from them and is more similar to John. In addition, an unspecified amount of…