Reinhard Keiser

George Frederick Handel was born on February 23rd, 1685. His parents were George and Dorothy Handel of Halle Saxony Germany. His father was 73 when he was born and he was an eminent barber-surgeon who served in the court of Saxony Weissenfels and Margraviate of Brandenburg. Handel was inspired by music. Unfortunately, his father was very surprised and urged him to study law instead. His father restricted his use of any musical instruments. Luckily his mother, on the other hand, was very supportive and gave Handel opportunities to learn music, and helped him stash a clavichord in the attic that he would play while his family slept. Fortunately, Handel's father did eventually give in when Handel went with his father to visit his nephew George Christian. Who happened to be, Duke Johnsons valid. With the with the help of the Duke, Handel was able to convince his father to let him take up music lessons and keyboard techniques. Handle started studying under Frederick William Zachary. He was the organist of the Lutheran monarchy. Under Frederick’s instruction, Handel was able to learn how to play many instruments with multiple harmonies and contemporary style. He also learned to work on fugue subjects. In 1698, Handel was privileged to play for Frederick the first of Prussia. Unfortunately, Handel father still wasn't fully convinced that he could make it, He urged him to study law. Handel started studying law under Christian Thomas at the University of Halle. At the…

The story of the Holocaust cannot be told in one simple way, there are many complex individual stories that make up the more complete Holocaust. Museums thus struggle with the issue of trying to decide how to represent the Holocaust and encounter the dilemma of trying to decide what information to include and what to omit. Los Angeles is a prime example of this struggle because they have two Holocaust museums, only a few miles apart, which have completely different backgrounds and motives,…

Imagine you are a Jew and live in the Lvov region around April 1942 and the Nazis are raiding your home and telling you and your family to go in train cars, thinking you are going to a transit camp but are actually going to an extermination camp in Belzec. This is what happened to a lot of Jews at this time because Hitler and his followers wanted to get rid of the Jews. Belzec extermination camp was a part of Operation Reinhard along with Treblinka and Sobibor and was a bigger part of the…

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto, Chil Rajchman’s The Last Jew of Treblinka, and Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz are the accounts of three Jewish people who experienced the German’s answer to the Jewish problem from their particular time and place of the “Final Solution”. Sierakowiak’s diary was written while he was living in the Lodz Labor Ghetto with his family and died before he was deported. Rajchman’s and Lengyel’s…

Daily Life in concentration camps was terrifying and draining emotionally and physically to the prisoners. The prisoners were always fearful of unnecessary beating and lashes from whips. The Nazi’s changed every person so that they could no longer feel or have emotions. The Nazi’s forced the prisoners to do unnecessary work in terrible conditions. Daily life in the Concentration Camps can be described as absolutely terrifying. The able-bodied prisoners worked in the slave labor complex. To…

Reinhard Heydrich From 1941 to 1945 about 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. One of the most important men to the Nazi cause of mass murdering the Jews was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the highest men in the SS. Reinhard Heydrich had an interesting life as a child and young adult, and a influential career as a Nazi. Heydrich’s death in 1942 was a turning point towards the extermination of Jews in Europe. Reinhard Heydrich had an unique childhood and life as a young adult.…

To illustrate, in “Hitler’s Hangman: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich”, the author declares,“Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which planned the [Final Solution] to the Jewish Question-the deportation and extermination of all Jews in Europe”(Hancock). This quote shows that there was a meeting dedicated to plot the extermination of the Jews. This citation also expresses that Heydrich was at the time influential enough to preside over a Nazi meeting. Additionally, in…

Johann Sebastian Bach represented the youngest child of a family of distinguished musicians. His father, the renowned organist Johann Ambrosius Bach, fully intended to preserve this artistic lineage and thus tutored him on the violin at a very young age. Tragically, when Bach was only ten years old, both his mother and father passed away, leaving him in the care of his elder brother Johann Cristoph. As Christoph was an organist at St. Michael’s Church, Bach received instruction in both the…

University of Halle, yet he did not show much of his interest in law, instead, in music. His passion for music would not be suppressed, which disappointed his father. When Handel was 18 years old in 1703, he decided to pursue music, “invested” all of himself into it, by accepting the post of violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of Hamburg Opera’s Goosemarket (Hamburg was the operatic center of Germany). At the same time, he spent his free time to supplement his income by teaching…