New antisemitism

World War II was one of the most deadly and dark wars in the history of the world. It started in Germany with the Holocaust. The Nazis persecuted many different groups of people during the Holocaust. One of the groups that were persecuted were the Disabled Germans. The Disabled Germans were persecuted during the Holocaust through forced sterilization, the Euthanasia program, and propaganda campaigns based on the Nazis belief that they were inferior to the human race. The Nazis made Germans…

Sandomir, Richard. “Marion Pritchard, Who Risked Her Life to Rescue Jews From Nazis, Dies at 96.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Dec. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/europe/marion-pritchard-rescuer-of-jews.html. “‘Women of Valor.’” Antonina Gordey - Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust - Righteous Among the Nations - Yad Vashem…

Who is Elie Wiesel? Elie Wiesel is the author of the memoir Night, a holocaust survivor, and also an advocate for anti-semitism. In Elie’s early life, he was taken to a concentration camp, Auschwitz. Elie went on to write, and later perform two speeches. Within the speeches, Elie conveyed the message that evils is among us. In one of his speeches named the Acceptance Speech, he speaks about how the Nazis “... mutilated dreams and visions.” By Elie saying this, he conveys that the Nazis killed…

states, “The Germans drafted adolescents when they got desperate toward the end of World War II. So did Iran, which used boys as young as 12 to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.” In other words the use of child soldiers is not a new problem that has occurred during wars. Therefore child soldiers are the worst part of a war because the world has been using underage soldiers for a little over seventy years, meaning that child soldiers have been sucked into the world of war…

Anti-Semitism is basically the hostility that the Jews were faced with as a religious group. The term semites gives people a false impression that all Semitic People, which includes Arabs, face this prejudices which is false. This term come into common usage in the 19th century but anti-Jewish incident happened long before that. Jews were the target of religious prejudices under the notion that “the Jews killed Jesus.” Furthermore, it will attain to explain why that belief became so popular in…

Regarded as a brilliant portrayal of the holocaust, offering a peek into the human suffering with compelling themes of Horrors,, Bravery and humanity. 'Shooting Stars' by Carl Ann Duffy is a shocking and disturbing monologue. It is cleverly narrated through Duffy, as she adopts the persona of a suffering Jewish woman, that endured torture and untimely death at the hands of the Nazis. Duffy uses effective techniques to further our understanding of the poem. We are instantly shown of the horror…

Dehumanization In the Brutal Memoir of Night by Elie Wiesel and the far-reaching graphic memoir of Maus by Art Spiegelman, brutality of the Germans is Shown in the Holocaust against the Jews. The main Characters in night differ in ways of surviving as one of them survive through ordinary human instincts and the other through his intelligent and being practical. As they also differ in taking risks; in Night, there was no sign of risk taking but in Maus Spiegelman shows elevated levels of risk…

The escape was a dangerous, exciting, and liberating time. Like many other death camps, Sobibor was created during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a devastating, murderous, atrocious time when Jews were slaughtered just because they were Jews. If you were not killed, you were sent to death camps, such as Sobibor, where you would work under miserable conditions. People that could not work like mothers, children, and the elderly were sent to the gas chambers to be poisoned to death. The…

Night written by Elie Wiesel and The Believer directed by Henry Bean, are different in terms of period of time and conflict, however they do share a number of similarities. The novel, Night, is based on a young innocent Jewish boy named Eliezer Wiesel who is very devoted his religion. After facing the many struggles from Nazis and other Jewish people, his beliefs and attitudes changed drastically, and he no longer believed in a Higher authority of God. He lost his belief in God and in his own…

As Hitler’s monstrosity begins in Germany, his heinous acts include the extermination of Jews. Jews, being the victims of Hitler’s ruthlessness faced hardships that would haunt them throughout their lives. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the black side of the war describes his worst nightmare in Night. Elie’s family was asked to give up their valuables and were required to wear yellow stars, a symbol validating that they were Jews. They were also asked to relocate and were given minimal time to do so…