Holocaust denial

The incredible abuse experienced by the prisoners' of war while being held by their captors is unfathomable. Constant beatings among verbal and mental abuse, lack of adequate, basic needs such as food, water, and proper shelter, and on top of all of these extreme injustices they are forced to carry out back breaking work in such conditions. All of these cruel practices are demonstrated in the popular book, Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand . Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini, a famous Olympic…

War is cruel. It takes but never gives anything good in return. In World War 2, war took the lives of over 60 million people. In the Odyssey, war killed the crew of Odysseus. The poem “War is kind” also describes war as what it truly is, horrific, terrifying, and cruel. War also leaves terrible scars on the soldiers; an article over PTSD shows just how terrible those scars are. All three works of literature show that war is cruel. The Odyssey is a collection of chapters telling the story of…

Elie Wiesel, a beautifully written Holocaust survivor. Wiesel writes to all who haven't lived through the horror that is known as the Holocaust, in efforts of “transmitting the history of the disappearance” of those who were brutally and unrightfully killed. With a tone of gloom and mourning, Wiesel argues that if it wasn't for the disastrous circumstances of the Holocaust, he would have never become the vivid writer that he is. The troublesome events of the Holocaust instilled a…

Hatred and the Holocaust I believe that people begin to dislike others, as well as treat them badly, because of the practices other people follow. For example religion. Whether you have a religion or not you still have your own beliefs to back up your statement. Another example is sexuality. People dislike others for things they can’t control, such as sexuality, I don’t think that is fair. The example of sexuality is similar to the Jews during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the dictator,…

slaughtered by german soldiers beginning on January 30th, 1933, I believe that we should remember the holocaust because it impacted the lives of everyone involved too immensely to ever let its memory fade away. As quoted by Harold Porter, “It is difficult to know how to begin”. But by being able to remember, we must know key points in history that triggered the motion of events which caused the Holocaust. It could have been that europe has always had a type of anti semitic tradition that pre…

Broken Bread, Broken Community: Hunger During the Holocaust In Holocaust narratives, food and starvation emphatically repeat, differing in their context, but consistently representing a fight against death of spirit or body. Hunger could take over and control a person’s body and mind, and starvation’s effects became a singular focus inside the ghetto or the concentration camps. Bread had the power to break apart families and connections to other people, further dehumanizing the individual’s…

spending every day living in silence and in fear that you might be discovered. For many that was their life everyday while hiding but there were also many problems for both Jews in hiding as well as those who hid them. Many Jews were saved during the Holocaust because of non-Jews willing to risk their lives but Jew and non-Jews had many problems they faced during and after the war. The decision of going into hiding or sending their children into hiding was a very hard decision and it was…

Man’s Inhumanity to Man From the year 1941 to the year 1945, German Nazis killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel recalls true acts of cruelty that illustrated man’s inhumanity. The Germans viewed the Jews as an enemy and saw them as a threat and an overall disgrace to this earth. Due to the views of Nazi Germany their leader, Adolf Hitler, promised to liquidate them from existence. These are the things Hitler preached so that the Germans would believe him…

“God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.” quoted Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor of the Holocaust, which gives him a great amount of ethos in his quote. Another survivor of the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel, had the same thoughts. Eliezer, Elie as he is referred to, published a novel titled Night, which showed his struggles throughout the Holocaust. Elie was a Jewish boy who had wished to study Kabbalah prior to the Holocaust. According to Oxford Dictionaries, Kabbalah is…

Elie Wiesel and Malala Yousafzai have received the Nobel Peace Prize for their humanitarian work. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor, and the writer of Night. Malala Yousafzai is commonly known for being shot by the Taliban as a young girl, but her mission is to give access to education to the millions of kids around the world who do not have the chance. Their acceptance speeches highlight the essence of their work. Their Nobel Lectures both contain rhetorical appeals; heavy usage of ethos…