Israeli Jews

I stood on top of the moving train watching hundreds of people pass by, living their meaningless, monotonous lives. Tugging at my bare chest, the wind’s coarse fingers dragged its claws down my face over and over until I remembered my current predicament. I constantly have nightmares, which I’ve been accustomed to calling dreams, of the day my mother died. I remember the day vividly; I remember watching my mother succumb to the angels of death. I remember a pool of my mother’s blood travel to…

Armon Olaee Ms. Rooney English 10 Honors Period 5 10 March 2017 The Blessing of Suffering “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” (Friedrich Nietzsche). After surviving the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel uses his woes to find value in his once torn apart life and express his sufferings in his autobiographical memoir, Night. The narrative describes the journey of a young teenage Jewish boy who experiences the horrors and hardships of the Holocaust while imprisoned…

The living conditions in Auschwitz were very unsanitary for prisoners. Furthermore, prisoners usually slept in brick barracks that were located inside Auschwitz. In each old, brick barrack were several hundred three-tier wooden bunk beds that prisoners lived in (“Living Conditions, Labor & Executions”). Each bunk bed contained 5 or 6 inmates. The barracks also had thin walls with no windows. Meanwhile, with only a bucket for a bathroom and more than 500 prisoners in one building, diseases spread…

In the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” Anne Frank and her family are in an Annex up above her father's workplace. At the end of the story she says “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” From this we can tell that Anne was very optimistic, forgiving, and kind. You may be wondering how we can tell she’s those things from one single quote. Well I’m about to show you how. How is she optimistic? The Frank family was in the Annex for two years and in most of…

the handmaid's live. Offred reflects on the beginning of the Gilead society, when it was first forming. She remembers that Jews were given the option to emigrate or convert, considering they were Sons of Jacob and “therefore special.” (200). She clarifies that Jews were typically hanged for solely being jewish as the Catholic was hanged for his faith. The Gilead declared that Jews were allowed to leave or convert because,in the Christian faith, Jacob’s son were tribes of Israel and God’s chosen…

assistants and saved a people's lives. Werner Klemke was a German soldier. He saved lots of people from their deaths because he printed fake birth certificates, food ration coupons, baptismal records, and ID cards. Where Klemke made documents 50% of the Jews lived. Both Ernie Feld and Werner Klemke’s stories show that doing things with a good purpose helps others. First, the theme do things with a good purpose goes with Ernie Feld’s story because he didn't just bake, he baked with the purpose…

Hertzberg. Simon didnt go tell his mother about all the horrible things he did to the Jews instead he talked to her about how as he was dying he asked for forgiveness. In my opinion that shows Simon forgiving him. Simon also wrote a story about Karl and if Simon didnt forgive him he wouldn't have published a book about Karl. In a way Karl apologised for all of the nazis and asked for forgiveness from all of the jews. Karl mentioned in his story that the boys were…

public was not without serious consequences, most notably in Lithuania, where the government has systematically tried to minimize the unusually extensive participation of local Nazi collaborators in the annihilation of the country’s Jews. More than 96 percent of Lithuanian Jews were killed in the Holocaust, with almost all the murders carried out locally per these…

When examining historical events, such as the Holocaust, it is imperative to be aware of the dangers of hindsight bias. Although one could look at the history of prejudice, discrimination, and violence toward Jews and assume that the Holocaust was an inevitable outcome of previous events, this teleology produces a far too simplistic explanation. It is true that historical accounts from ancient times, such as Manetho’s anti-Jewish counter narrative from the 3rd century BCE, share similar themes…

In an article called “The tortured language of war: Whitewashing atrocities” by Shamai Leibowitz, uses tone and emotive language to try to influence audience attitudes. His intent to “Shape” audience attitudes is to use the tone and chooses his words to make an impact on the people who are reading what he has to argue about. In the event that, by using a certain tone in whether if it’s angry, sad, surprised, or compassion, the intent it to make the readers to have the emotions that Leibowitz is…