Hungary

I was about to turn 16 when the Germans occupied Hungary. I feared that the Germans would do something to put my family in harm’s way and so they did. At first everything seemed normal until they started passing out anti-Semitic laws. All Jews were forced to wear the star of David on their clothing or else there would be serious consequences. Inside I grew hatred toward the Germans because they took away my father’s business. I asked my father, “Who are we going to live off…

In the latter half of the ninth century AD, a tribal confederation from the Asian steppes began a migration into eastern and central Europe. Initially staying on the fringes of Christendom, these peoples soon came head-to-head with the established power of central Europe, the kingdom of the Eastern Franks. In the opening years of the conflict, the Magyars, as they were known (later known as the Hungarians) created a crisis which threatened the survival of the Eastern Frankish kingdom. The…

Dehumanization in the Memoir Night The human race is classified as an animal, although under normal circumstances, humans do not operate in the way that an animal does. The people in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night are an exception. During the Holocaust the Nazis associated the Jewish race as inferior to wild beasts and treated them as such in widely spread concentration camps throughout Eastern Europe in which German soldiers gassed, burned, beat, and shot thousands of Jews every day. Wiesel…

1) Journal of the Jews 2) Model of the ‘Before’ and ‘After’ effect of the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto 3) Food the Jews ate during (1942-1943) 4) Armband of a jewish person/ID card 1) The journals the Jews wrote into and the food given to them by the Nazis would soon be an example in the future as to what horrible things the Nazi did to the Jews, being a lesson as to what humans should not do in generations to come. 2) Before races and ethnic groups despised one another and certain groups were…

Birdsong by Stephen Faulks is a novel to show the effect war has on a person who served in battle and the importance to understand the history of war for those who wish to learn about the past. This novel is about the Great War and its impact it had on the life of Stephen Wraysford, the protagonist of the novel, and his granddaughter Elizabeth Benson. Stephen had an affair with a woman named Isabelle Azaire who ends up getting pregnant and wasn 't sure about the feelings for Stephen so she left…

WHY DOES GMANY START HOLOCUST 877 words Jan 11th Tim In World War 2, all the country blame Germany is the criminal of this war and also blames them about holocaust. That’s right, Germany started war and holocaust. Around 6millions Jewish has been killed, but did you ever thinks about ‘why did Germany do these rude things to Jewish?’ I summarize for three points. First how does Jews economy take part in Germany. Second which important people (Jews) affect Germany economy.…

The Holocaust’s effect on Germany During the 1930’s, Adolf Hitler’s vicious reign left thousands starving, suffering, traumatized, and dead. Millions of people feared their lives when anti-Semitism was embraced by the Soviet troops and the Anglo-Saxons and it had spread to several parts of Europe. Adolf Hitler walks away from the Holocaust not only the reason for the millions of mass murders that he organized, but also the psychological suffering of the people of Germany after the termination…

How Does the Media Shape Meaning In History: The Holocaust? The holocaust has been represented through many different forms of media over the years. Because the holocaust is depicted through different mediums, such as photographs, novels, museum exhibits and films, the viewpoint and the message conveyed throughout the mediums are different. This difference of perspective consequently depends on who and what documented the historical events at the time, as these factors will determine the impacts…

The holocaust was a horrific time period during the World War II. This was a time of fear for the minorities of the German race. The Germans would capture, torture and even murder the people. The holocaust did not only target German Jews, it targeted Jews from many different countries that the Germans controlled. The holocaust also did not only target Jews but it targeted other people as well. The book The Upstairs Room mentions a few big picture ideas, and involves other historical events…

Lebensuwertes Leben, German for “life unworthy of life”. From early on in WWII, the Nazi policy was to murder the individuals that they felt were unimportant in society. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir, Night. Night, describes in detail his life during the Holocaust and the sacrifices he made when he was there. He is also well known for his White House speech, Perils of Indifference. The speech described how he felt about the experience and how people could have…