New antisemitism

How does Polanski convey the theme of adversity on the human spirit in The Pianist? In 2002, Parisian film director Roman Polanski adapted the memoir of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist living in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II. Once a prosperous musician known throughout the country, the film follows his survival of the holocaust. The experience has implications on the emotions of Szpilman, as well as his passion for music and creativity- his spirit as a human. Through the use of…

During the six bloody years of the Holocaust, over one million children and teenagers under eighteen were murdered. However, many of the children who did survive, were only able to do so through their faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel tells of his experiences during the Holocaust at a young age, mainly exploring his time in Auschwitz. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer’s struggle in keeping his faith to show that even the strongest believers could lose their faith in such hard times but…

In World War II, the Nazis committed unspeakable atrocities against the Jewish population, as well as many other groups of individuals deemed unworthy in the eyes of the Nazi party. In Simon Wiesenthal’s memoir “The Sunflower”, Karl, a energetic and enthusiastic member of the SS and previous Hitler’s youth participant who has found himself in a hospital bed, is one such member of the Nazi party who has committed crimes against humanity. Despite his misdeeds against the Jewish population, Karl…

Kai Shah Have you ever heard the saying “don't judge a book by its cover”? Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men has shown how that saying applies to people as well. The Characters in Of Mice and Men represent different types of people. When different types of people are put into different situations, they will react differently; however, Steinbeck has shown me that people will sometimes make the same decisions, and other times make different decisions. The three main factors that cause people to react…

Bruno’s Unfortunate Nativity in the Holocaust Bang! Bang! Bang! That was the sound of Jews being killed by Nazis, German soldiers under the control of Adolf Hitler. He was the supposedly “president” of Germany at the time who had a belief of killing others that were “different” than him, mainly Jews. Jews would have to hide in towns, so they wouldn’t be found and sent to concentration camps. That didn’t work for at least 60% of them. These people were tortured and killed at concentration…

When Karl, a dying, twenty-one year old Nazi soldier, begs Jewish prisoner Simon Weisenthal for forgiveness, Wiesenthal responds with silence. Unsure of the his neither refusal nor acceptance to grant the soldier his forgiveness, Wiesenthal asks the reader what they would do. In Book Two of The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, fifty-three responses from varying ethnicities, experiences, religions, and countries yielded their opinions on what Wiesenthal should or should…

“The Lottery:” Submit or Scream According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, prior to World War II Adolf Hitler scapegoated Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals for the economic problems that were facing Germany (Untied States Holocaust Memorial Museum). During the Holocaust, many in Germany, Austria, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and even America turned a blind eye while these individuals were rounded up and murdered. It is all too easy to call this atrocity history as if…

In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, he recalls the events of his life during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. Throughout Elie’s journey through The Holocaust, he experiences one thing: Evil. Each guard was evil towards Elie, even his fellow Jews were frustrated enough to be evil towards each other. Elie begins his journey in the Jewish community of Sighet, where his family and all of the Jews are warned by Hungarian police of upcoming danger, they pack their belongings and are taken out of town…

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst event in world history. Ran by Hitler and his Nazis, this horrific event took place from around 1939 to 1945. During this time period, 6 million Jews, as well as millions of other people, were persecuted by the Nazis, as they were thought to be bad people, even though they did nothing wrong. This event is known as arguably the greatest example of human genocide in history. Because of this tragic event, and all of the bad things that happened during this…

Intolerance and the Holocaust As said by Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor, “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” The Holocaust was the mass slaughter in the 1930s and 1940s of German Jews and those who ‘tainted’ Germany under the rule of Hitler and the ruthless Nazi party, who blamed the innocent for devastating their country. Even today, the Holocaust…