Gestapo

between her sister when they were put with foster families. Edith was only 11 years old when the holocaust changed her life forever. The first climactic part of Edith Goldberg's life is when she witnessed her father and uncle being taken away by two Gestapo men. “During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, plainclothes police came for her father and uncle in the middle of the night and took them away,” (Edith and her Adoptive Family: Edith Goldberg). “Irmgard [Edith’s sister] was sleeping and…

On the morning of April 9, 1940, German forces crossed the border into neutral1 Denmark, in direct violation of a German-Danish treaty of nonaggression2 signed the previous year. […] Within the first years of the German occupation3 , the Germans had often raised the question of the status of the Danish Jews. However, the Danish government had consistently refused to engage in any debate on the “Jewish question”4 as they insisted there existed no “Jewish question” in Denmark. […] As the war…

From the book and movies of the old and new anne frank, my character that i chose was anne frank because i would not want to be but i had no choice, but i had two wonderful parents: Edith and Otto frank, they are the best parents it the world, i would not change anything for my parents. I wish i had a better life, than what i have now, but i can’t change my life, because i can’t control it. Annelies Marie Frank was a german- born diarist and writer, who basically wrote down her life was and…

Cruelty describes something that is beyond evil, such as the acts that the Nazis committed towards the Jews showing the theme of inhumanity to man. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel he describes the way that the Nazis treat him and the other Jews, which is horrific and progressively worsens. When Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the…

message: “Taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.” The bishop of Ghent refused to pay a ransom for the recovery. (4) Raphael’s “Young man” portrait--Missing: 1945. This 16th century oil painting disappeared during the Second World War. The Gestapo took this to decorate Adolf Hitler’s residence. It was last seen in 1945 by Nazi officer Hans Frank when it was carried to the Royal Wavell Castle. (5) Caravaggio’s “The Birth of Jesus.” Missing: 1969. It was hanging in the San Lorenzo…

Hitler has committed some of the world’s greatest and most evil crimes against humanity. He has multiple crimes from brainwashing people to genocide. Many different events have played an important role in securing his rise to power. Both Nazi propaganda and the Night of Long Knives are important. However, the Enabling Act ensured that Hitler was in power. Hitler had started a campaign to receive full power. He threatened other political parties and won the vote. This moved his power to the next…

The operation was called Kindertransport — Children's Transport — and it was a passage from hell to freedom. Kristallnacht had just rocked Nazi Germany. The pogroms killed dozens of Jews, burned hundreds of synagogues and imprisoned tens of thousands in concentration camps. Many historians see them as the start of Hitler's Final Solution. Amid the horror, Britain agreed to take in children threatened by the Nazi murder machine. Seventy-five years ago this week, the first group of kids arrived…

burglaries. Many in which the families in the Annex were almost discovered. The burglaries are alarming because it could possibly be warehouse workers thus when the people in the Annex go to scare them away, the workers could recognize them and inform the Gestapo. They realize they will be discovered soon but they still have…

In the book “The Berlin Boxing Club” by Robert Sharenow there is a boy named Karl, he is a Jew that lives in Nazi era Berlin. He gets bullied for being a Jew. Karl doesn’t own up to his heritage. In the book Max Schmeling helps Karl out a lot. Nobody knew Karl was a Jew. He doesn’t look like one but the guys that bully him found out somehow. In this book there is a lot of action that makes you want to keep reading. In the book a lot of stuff happened but 3 of the main points was Karl taking…

Resist When one thinks of World War two, they tend to think of how awful Nazi Germany was (which it indeed was) and how the Germans seemed to fully give into Hitler's false radical statements regarding the “race impurity”. Yet, the ones that resisted, are indeed overlooked, and seemed not to be recognized. The ones that rose up and spoke out against the false statements. People like Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society who peacefully spoke out against the Nazi Regime in a peaceful manner.…