Holocaust denial

Martin Luther’s legacy of writings against the Jews is very well known in theological and historical circles, which have been pondering over the meanings behind the writings and the factors that influenced Luther’s views of the Jews. A close reading of Luther’s works regarding the Jews reveals a major change in both tone and content from generally conciliatory and amiable to violent, vitriolic rants against the Jewish People. Luther’s tone is not the only aspect of his writings on Jews that…

In Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl documents in great details his time as an inmate at Auschwitz in his book where he ties in his personal experiences and analyzes existential concepts concerning the human psyche. While exploring whether human existence is contingent on a person’s responsible-ness, even in the most extreme and unpleasant situations, Frankl illuminates on key ideas concerning suffering, human existence, and the meaning of life. This paper will be exploring…

Do you ever become filled with remorse when you do something hurtful to others? Everyone feels it at one point or another. Anne Frank, a Jew hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis during World War II, believes this to be true. She truly believed that people were still good on the inside when something bad happened. She even stated in her diary, “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” I also believe this to be true. In this essay, I will explain to you why I believe…

In the Article “Unhappy Camper’s: Dundalk And After” written by Lenihan, the author attempts to explore the reason why forty-four percent of the soldiers at Dundalk camp died of disease. Schomberg chooses not to lead his troops towards Dublin and set up a camp in Dundalk. The article explains camp conditions were poorly monitored. Camps were set to close together, and men would huddle in their huts to keep warm from the wet weather. There are many theories as to why so many men died but poor…

SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an ambulance, carried…

Litearay Ananlyisis “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the main theme is silence. Silence is the main theme because it caused the Jews to lose everything they held dear. As a result of their silence, the Jewish people lost their lives, freedom, and homes. The first negative effect silence had on the Jewish people was that is caused them…

Unlike the holocaust Ive never really learned or heard about the Armenian Genocide. It was very interesting to learn about something that is rarely talked about. When the Ottoman Empire allied itself with Germany in WWI, the Young Turks saw an opportunity to rid the…

author or in this case a cartoonist write/draw himself into the story? The use of self-insertion adds to the effectiveness of the writer and in this instance, Art Spiegelman uses the concept of self-insertion to effectively tell the story of the Holocaust and tell the story with a post-memory twist. Primarily, the use of self-insertion creates a sense of ethos with the audience. Rather than acting as a regular character, the cartoonist sits in for the reader herself. Acting as a surrogate, the…

Think of some of the worst people in the history of the world. For example, think of the Nazi’s - there have been several stories of Nazi’s helping Jewish people escape from torture, which is sympathy from some of the worst people in the world. In the Science Fiction novel The Ender’s Game written by Orson Scott Card, the main character Ender Wiggins perfectly portrays this because of his mix of violence that he gets from his brother and his innocence that he gets from his sister.. One important…

The Survivors Taduesz Borowski’s “Silence” occurred in a concentration camp. In this story, the prisoners were able to implement their revenge against a German soldier by “tramping him to death” (641). “I assure you that the guilty will be punished, in this camp as well as in all the others” (641), despite of the reassurance that was provided to them by an American soldier they still continued to pursue their plan by attaining justice with their own hands. All the glimpse of hope they had were…