The Holocaust

of the Holocaust? 1. Coady, C.A.J, Testimony: A Philosophical Study, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). I chose this secondary source as Coady provides a broad outlook on testimonies, attempting to provide a definition, or in this case multiple. Throughout the book Coady defends testimonies, arguing that they are a great source of knowledge and help aid our understanding of events. Thus, this source will be helpful in providing a clear definition, when discussing the reliability of Holocaust…

"… It is not an account of exceptional individuals. It is an account of exactly how noteworthy individuals can be… " Helmreich W. "Holocaust" came into our dialect from Greek. It is a word that was utilized to recognize penances that antiquated Jews made to their God. Amid these penances individuals were smoldered in flame. This word is very nearly an equivalent word to "death". These days it brings out pessimistic relationship in the psyches of the living individuals. Regardless of the fact…

Elie Wiesel once stated,” For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” The Holocaust started in 1932 and ended in 1945.The Nazis did not like the Jewish citizens, and blamed them for everything. The most common reason was religious beliefs. In the beginning, there was not that much violence, but then the Jews started to lose many privileges. Such as, losing the right to own a business, stay out late, own their homes, and eat any animal products. The losing of privileges later resulted in…

didn’t fit the image of what a human is suppose to be. Slavery and the holocaust are two of the most horrific events in history that displayed people being treated less than human because of who they are. Although the holocaust and slavery shared the similarity of people enduring dreadful abuse by the hands of another; but they are different in the sense of the time period, ethnicity, and their circumstance. While the holocaust only went on for twelve years (1933-1945), it had a huge impact on…

Sindler, Amy J., Nancy S. Wellman, and Oren Baruch Stier. "Holocaust Survivors Report Long-Term Effects on Attitudes toward Food." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 36.4 (2004): 189-96. Web. 15 Oct. 2015. I found this journal article on web.a.ebscohost.com. First, I went on the official Church Farm School webpage and went to the online library catalog. Then I clicked on the Ebscohost link. I selected all references and also full text in the homepage. On this article search…

from the Holocaust, but the following three causes and lessons are the most central. The causes that were most central to the Holocaust were Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, ignorance and indifference from the German people, and the Industrial Revolution. We should learn from the Holocaust not to blindly follow authority, to search for knowledge to help others, and to not use new technologies to support genocide. These were the most central causes and lessons to be taken from the Holocaust.…

As the last Holocaust survivors age and slowly pass away, the living memory of the events during the Holocaust will soon be facing the problem of extinction in the context of survivor testimonies. According to Holocaust studies critic Thomas Trezise, this phenomenon is the “anxiety of historical transmission” and accounts for the large part acceleration of testimony production in the past three decades. Through the establishment of the different documentation and archives of written memoirs,…

Lasting 12 years, the Holocaust was the mass genocide of Jewish people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and gypsies. It was estimated that 11 million people died during this time period, 6 million of which were Jews. The name Holocaust comes from the Greek word ‘Holokausten’, which means sacrifice by fire. According to most historians, the Holocaust began on April 1st, 1933, when Germany, under Nazi control, passed the first anti-semitic law, effectively boycotting all Jewish run businesses.…

The Holocaust as we know it was the mass murder of six million Jews during WWII. There is a ton of evidence to support this tragic event, yet there are still some people that believe that the Holocaust was not real or that it was greatly exaggerated. These non-believers refer to themselves as the Holocaust deniers. Why would one deny such a large historical event that has so much evidence to back it up? Most people today accept the mass genocide and have learned from it, but others refuse to…

terror, destruction and sadness equivalent to the Holocaust and the Soviet Famine? Innocent people that were not desirable in the eyes of Adolf Hitler were killed because they didn’t fit into this vision description. While some may argue that the Holocaust was the worst genocide in history, there were many other genocides with high death rates such as the Soviet Famine in the Ukraine which caused more people to die. As tragic as this the Holocaust was everyone needs to realize the other terrible…