Terezín

Austerlitz continue his journey about finding his past. History has a way that it can physically and mentally affect an individual, in Austerlitz’s case, it caused him to have several mental breakdowns. While resting due to one of his mental breakdowns, Austerlitz has an epiphany , this time in a bookshop. While listening to the radio, which features two women discussing the summer of 1939, when, as children, they had come on the ferry Prague to England, as part of the Kindertransport which he…

shadow over her contributions. She added to the machine of fascism by creating this larger than life image of Hitler and the “superior race” rather than using the apparatus to help the people understand the world around them. Films such as the one on Terezin manipulate reality to create a false sense of safety and assurance. What was put onto film to be consumed by the masses was most definitely not the truth. These techniques feed into the process of aesthetics being used to normalize and…

CBC documentary “Hana’s suitcase” Karen Levine present an incredible recompilation of historical information about a controversial topic: child in war and the knowledge of people of historical events. She presents an authentic book with an audio in which the characters are how tell the story, and this give a realistic and motivational view of what second world war was. This documentary tells how war affects the past and how is affecting the present; however, explains the necessary of know…

1933-1945: A time of great destruction, grief, and devastation. It was the Holocaust - when Hitler and the Nazi’s tried to completely remove all Jews from their lives and treat them with brutal conditions. Many articles, stories, and even poems were written to explain and recognize the grim time era. They show the Holocaust had a negative impact on most people who were involved. I believe the writers use diverse writing techniques to pull their writing together and create the overall theme of…

crowded, so contagious diseases spread. For example, Helga Weiss, a 12 year old, witnessed widespread tuberculosis at Terezín, and Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen at 16 years old. Clearly, the camp system did not intend for there to be any survivors, shown by the physical strains that were meant to kill prisoners. From the 15,000 children transferred to Auschwitz from Terezín, only 100 survived,which is less than 1% of children. Grueling labor, compounded with brutal punishments,…

is a character that has substantial importance to Arties life. Pavel is Artie’s shrink, who he sees once a week to discuss his life and relationship with his father, who is now dead. Pavel is a Czechoslovakian Jew who survived both Auschwitz and Terezin. Artie gets a little bit of knowledge about Auschwitz from Pavel; since he is experiencing some writing and drawing blocks. Artie struggles to depict Auschwitz visually and in a meaningful way since he didn’t physically experience it. An…

Numerous stories of swing musicians are dominated by ethnic, racial, and gendered situations; stories that played an important role in the development of swing. Examples include Artie Shaw’s childhood years on the Lower East Side of New York City where he spent time with migrant children from Eastern Europe and Trummy Young’s youth in the Yamacraw section in Savannah, Georgia where the community that he grew up in was dominated by blacks, Italians, and Chinese. As a decisive player in the…

Conflict is a major literary element that creates tension and interest in a story by adding doubt in the outcome. People think of conflict as something negative such as tension, withdraw, trust, stimulating, revealing, resolution, liberation, progress, and intention. It is important to include conflict to a novel because the reader should have a reason should have a reason to care about the outcome and to continue reading to learn that outcome. Outcome is everything that happens between the…

In the end, German officials deported disabled and highly decorated Jewish war veterans as well as elderly or prominent Jews from so-called Greater German Reich and the German-occupied Netherlands to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto near Prague. Although the SS used the ghetto as a showcase to portray the fiction of “humane” treatment of Jews, Theresienstadt in actuality represented a way station for most Jews en route to their deportation “to the east.” The SS and police…

Most people know very little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important…