Denial

anti-semitic views grew rapidly. “While the Holocaust is one of the best documented genocides in history, with a wide array of evidence documenting virtually every aspect of it” (Lipstadt, 2011), people around the world still decide to turn a cold shoulder. Denial of it and distortion of facts are generally motivated by the hatred of Jews (Holocaust, 2016). “Jews have perpetrated this hoax about the Holocaust on the world in order to gain political and financial advantage, and it was in fact…

In her memoir, Denial, Jessica Stern delves into the topic of trauma and the denial of traumas. Stern and her sister, as children, were victims of a serial rapist: a trauma that permanently alters their lives. Embarking on a journey of introspectiveness and investigation, Stern seeks to find the truth about her trauma, her family and her own mind. Along this journey, Stern encounters some fundamental truths about her own mind: she likely has post-traumatic-stress-disorder, she has the ability to…

“Doctor Facilitated Denial: A Barrier to End-of-life Planning Among COPD Patients” by Lauren Seidman, examined the correlation between the motivation of COPD patients to pursue an Advanced Directive, and three factors which she hypothesized would impact that motivation. The three factors included: a) denial (either facilitated or refuted by doctors), b) patients’ self-perceived health, and c) patients’ trust in the information provided by the physicians.Seidman utilized data previously collected…

and Memory, which significantly ruined his professional reputation and career as a result. Due to the British legal system, pressure is placed on Lipstadt and her legal team to prove the truth of the Holocaust. The 2016 film Denial addresses the issue of Holocaust denial (rejecting the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust during World War II) through the variations of different contextual perspectives, commonly known as contestability. These contextual perspectives are influenced…

Silence means forgetting. Avoiding a lesson, denying the truth, means failing to learn from past mistakes. As seen in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust is a tragic event that took place in human history. The word Holocaust is of Greek origin, meaning “sacrifice by fire” (memorial council 1). This event begs to be forgotten due to the inability of people to face the harsh realities taking place during this time period in the 1940s. Normal civilians were aware of the cattle cars…

Denial becomes an obstacle for those that are abusing alcohol because they use it as a defense mechanism to tell themselves they do not have a drinking problem. Denial lets the individual stand on his/her own way. The desire to drink is so strong that the mind finds many ways to rationalize drinking, even when the consequences are obvious. It keeps an individual from looking honestly at their behavior and its negative effects. Denial also intensifies alcohol-related…

Wife’s Denial I watched him. My eyes followed him as he took every single sip. “You really shouldn't drink that much you know,” I said softly, almost like I was afraid of him. He didn’t bother glancing up or acknowledging what I said and kept drinking. Tonight was the dinner party, where we announce our baby’s gender to our friends. Everyone was coming over to our house at half past seven and I haven't gotten ready still. My arms were painted, colours of black and purple. “I can’t let anyone see…

Did you know that 17 million people died during the Holocaust. 6 million of those people were Jewish. The book Night an the speech Peril of Indifference describe the hardships of the Jews. They are both written by Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust. Night is a description of Elie’s journey through the Holocaust, and Perils of Indifference was the speech he gave at the White House for the Millennium Lecture Series. Night is more effective at projecting Elie’s message that indifference is…

Many characters in pieces of literature are characterized as strong, brave, and courageous. The Resistance of Auschwitz in the novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe are unique in which they are quietly revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of…

The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…