Romania

In Night, author Elie Wiesel gives his account of the terrors he experienced living in a German concentration camp during World War II. The book starts off with an explanation of Wiesel’s town Sighet, in Romania. He goes on to discuss some of the townspeople including Moishe the Beadle, who warns the town about how fast the Germans are approaching. The Germans arrive and put all the Jews in ghettos before loading them into cattle cars and bringing them to a camp called Auschwitz. Elie…

June 1940, Great Britain is the last democracy in Europe fighting Hitler. America did not want to be involved in another European war, but Franklin Roosevelt believed otherwise. He decided to draft all able young men into the military, but they would only protect American territory. During this time saving the Jews and fighting against Germany was not a priority for the U.S. government, until 4 days after pearl harbor. After the attack by the Japanese, Germany and Italy declared war on the…

What if the country you lived in was colonized? What does colonialism even mean? It means that other countries are trying to take over your country. In the film hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina didn’t take that so he tried to stop it and he eventually stopped it. Did you know that Paul Rusesabagina risked his life just to save 1,268 people from dying. And its not cool how nearly a million Tutsi died by their heritage by the rivals Hutus. But that’s not the important stuff, the important stuff…

The collapse of the Soviet Union could have been many things including the government not working in general, citizens revolting, and radical reforms. The economic collapse of the Soviet Union was a key part in its demise. Human Rights weren’t necessarily a top priority which may have caused the citizens to not like the Soviet Union. Gorbachev felt embarrassed about how dependent the Union was on foreign markets. Even with all these issues in the Soviet Union it was still one of the most…

The soviets later also invaded Bessarabia which belonged to Romania at that time. In the years following the signing Non Aggression pact , many events showed that both countries had some surprising similiarites. Both germany and the soviet union occupied zones in the area of eastern europe. As we know, Hitler…

cities”(Brownworth). This is something that is a lot more common than it should be. Another reason people are tortured is due to their religion, race, or ethnicity, “Roma communities were singled out in Kosovo, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. Kurds bore the brunt of Turkish torture.”(Torture: the facts). This judgment of people because of who they are and punishing them for what they can not control is wrong and must come to an end. Torture used across…

1939, war had started between Germany and Poland and the successful attempts for expansion of Germany. After obtaining the territory of Poland, Germany rapidly move on to invade the Soviet Union, Romania, Finland, Norway, Denmark and the Dutch just between 1939 and 1940. With many more to come and fall under the command of Germany, they continued to gain territory throughout World War Two taking what they wanted most, power. But why was Germany was so successful in early World War Two? Well,…

Night and The Book Thief are closely related works of literature. Both illustrate the challenges of prejudice through religious intolerance. Yet, these stories are shown through the eyes of totally different perspectives. Both books have countless struggles that happen simultaneously during time. Max Vandenburg, from The Book Thief, leaves his mother and other family to hide away with one of his father’s closest friends. Before going into hiding, Max was a fist fighter. His first taste of a…

Chile has been the location of some of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Few earthquakes in the southern hemisphere, or even in the entire world, compare to The Great Chilean Earthquake in May of 1960. In Figure 1.1, Richard Aster places the most powerful earthquakes from the last one-hundred years in a pie chart. The Great Chilean Earthquake accounts for nearly 20% of the total global seismic moment release. At a moment magnitude of 9.5, the earthquake caused astronomical amounts of damage…

would not allow this time in his life to alter his impact on the world. Elie Weisel survived the horrors of the Holocaust and further dedicated his life to speaking out on injustice, making him an undeniable hero. Elie Weisel was born in present-day Romania, in 1928, to his parents Shlomo Weisel and Sarah Feig (Britannica). He had three siblings, two older sisters, and a younger sister. Weisel grew up in a small town in Sighet, living in a Jewish community (Britannica). In 1940, Weisel’s…