Holocaust research

The Jewish Holocaust was not only a horrific event, it was one that will always be remembered. One brave man, Oskar Schindler, did as much as he could to save the Jewish people of Krakow from the misery of the Nazis. Oskar Schindler not only saved Jewish people from concentration camps and ghettos, but he also helped to nourish them and fought to keep them alive in his factory. Throughout the war, Oskar Schindler brought in many Jewish people to work for him. These people came to his factory…

As if another world war was not devastating enough, the Holocaust also occurred during World War II. The Holocaust began with the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which stripped Jews of their natural rights. In 1938, Kristallnacht occurred, commencing government-approved violence against all Jews for simply being Jewish. Afterwards, Jews were moved into ghettos and transported to camps. The Nazi policy of murdering Jews only intensified in 1942, with the decision to implement the Final…

A significant figure of the Holocaust was Oskar Schindler, a German man who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler ran multiple factories, creating supplies and ammunition for the German war effort. At first, he was driven by the desire to make profit;…

naked in front of each other, forced to shave off all the hair on their bodies, and were then assigned a jumpsuit. By making them look completely the same, they lose their individuality, which was just another way to dehumanized the victims of The Holocaust. As Elie 's story progresses, the reader learns about the processes of selection, where inmates would be judged on their strength, physical looks, and stamina. This selection was done by the infamous Doctor Joseph Mengele. During the first…

Schindler Paragraph 6: Oskar Schindler is one of the most famous Jewish liberators in the Holocaust. He was forever immortalized through Academy Award winning movie, Schindler’s List. The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In…

On April 22, 1981 President Ronald Reagan made a statement in his proclamation, “ Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it, . . . the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten (Reagan).” As a matter of fact it should never be forgotten, no genocide should be taken lightly. It takes a horrible, disgusting, and soulless person to carry out such mass extinction of an ethnic group or nation. Considering there were many genocides that…

power; some have succeeded while some have failed. When the people were oppressed, there is often one individual who steps up and helps fight for the people’s rights. Examples of human rights violation is the holocaust and the Indians under the British rule in India. During the holocaust, the Jews were blamed for all of Germany’s problems and were deprived of human rights. In India, the British discriminated the Indians and made them second class…

The Essence of Evil Ahead stood a boy, barely sixteen, with a seemingly normal life. A life filled with worrying about his latest test scores. His story is a sad one. A story full of punches from his father, and empty bottles from his mother. Each night he arrives on his door step, turning the knob staring at the knocker that seems to scream “run”. He knows tonight will be just like the others, filled with fear and evil. Elie Wiesel has a lot of similarities to this boy. They both are too young…

Heroism can be described in many different ways and seen in many different places. Heroes are brave, selfless, smart, caring, and willing to risk everything to do the right thing. A hero can be seen as the person who flies in and saves a town from a fire breathing dragon, a strong man who climbs a tall tower to save a damsel in distress, or even a little girl that helps the elderly woman down the street with her groceries. World War II was a gruesome battle between a multitude forces and in…

happened to six million Jews in the Holocaust. This event to put simply was a horrific massacre. As Sharon explains “The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us”. Without looking back and learning from the Holocaust, the horrific events would have all been in vain. Eleven million people were killed in cold blood in the Holocaust, for this the…