Holocaust denial

I think that it is important that we study the Holocaust because it was a huge part of history. Over 6 million people died in the Holocaust. The Holocaust impacted many lives, including Eliezer’s life. Many families were lost during this time. In the book, “Night” By Elie Wiesel, Eliezer was a part of the Holocaust and lost his family because of it. Elie and his family were all separated when they were brought to the camp. This event was very dark and scary not only for Elie but for everyone…

“Being a refugee is much more than political studies, it is the most pervasive kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being” Deadly silence swept through the night, dispensing uneasy tension and fear across the bombarded city of Daraa. Terror walked around our streets, loaded with heavy ammunition aiming their hatred towards innocent civilians. We did not dare to muster a single sound in our wooden creaky house, concealing ourselves from the danger within. In this town, a single…

“We crushed their necks with wood. We hung them. We strangled them with wire. We cut off their heads. We ran them over with cars. We were allowed to do it,” (Adi Zulkadry - Fellow Executioner in 1965). Amidst the tumultuous state of Indonesia’s (socio)political climate during the mid-1960s, there was an outbreak of anti-communist sentiment that made itself evident in the form of a purge, carried out by a paramilitary group by the name of Pancasila Youth, and later coined as the ‘Indonesian…

Leni Riefenstahl exerted a significant impact on Nazi propaganda between 1933-1939 and epitomised Josef Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda) opinion that propaganda messages are most effective when they are disguised in popular mediums, contain partial truths and enable deeper emotional connections with the audience. She used her artistic capabilities to produce cinematic masterpieces portraying numerous Nazi ideologies. Riefenstahl also greatly impacted Nazi propaganda as she used eye witness…

Ice Road Truckers: 15 Facts & Photos Of Steph Custance When we ask you to think about your typical trucker what picture forms in your mind? A leathery old guy in dirty jeans smoking cigarettes? Maybe with a bit of a “dad bod” and a big scruffy beard? We’re probably on the right track. Let’s be honest, although we know there are female truckers out there – who can do the job just as good as any guy – we tend to associate a certain type of man to the job. That was of course until we met the ladies…

The indigenous people of the United States of America endured the utmost traumatic historical events. Hundreds of massacres orchestrated by the European man killed the Native Americans. Deception was key in the atrocities, the white man would promise “peace” and then brutally murder the Natives. The genocide continues today as alcohol, introduced to the Natives by the Colonists, ravages through the reservations. Sherman Alexie, author of “Evolution”, does not shy away from any of these tough…

There are many terrifyingly horrid topics that have been presented with the introduction to World War II that give insight into the basic German civilian’s life. Isabel Allende states “Write what should not be forgotten,” which ties in perfectly with The Book Thief in that the audience gets to participate in Markus Zusak’s work on the fictional life of the German girl, Liesel, and her newfound poor family as society evolves around them. Through this family's struggles the audience witnesses how…

With marks all over their face, eyes red and weary, and dying for even the slightest bit of food, the prisoners faced the harsh conditions of the gulag to barely survive each day in their never-ending prison sentence. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, over 15-30 million Zeks died during the Stalinist era, displaying the extreme difficulty of surviving. In the novella, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn investigates the most intriguing aspect of life in the gulag:…

Originating in Nazi Germany, The Holocaust took place in the late 1930s spreading rapidly throughout Europe. The Holocaust, a horrifying destruction and slaughter, began in order to exterminate the European Jewish Population. The women, men, and children were forced into concentration camps, divided into groups depending on their capabilities, and faced unimaginable terrors including starvation and gas chambers/human ovens. “The Nazis constructed gas chambers (rooms that filled with poison gas…

The Partition of India in 1947 was one of the most horrific events of decolonization in the 20th century, bringing death, rape and plunder in its wake. The agony of partition has reverberated in literature in various India Languages in as many ways as the writers themselves.BapsiSidhwa’s Ice Candy Man offers intimate glimpse into the events leading to the division of the country from the point of view of a young Parsee girl living in the city of Lahore after the birth of Pakistan. Ice Candy Man…