The Holocaust

night sky in different shades of blue with bright yellow stars, this shows the goodness in the world before the Holocaust. The Jewish flag ordinarily shows the honor of the Jewish people, but the flag was adopted after the Holocaust. It still brings pride and honor to Jewish people today, so consequently I drew it. The black and white side is made to show the merciless life during the Holocaust, it still…

Between 5 to 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The Jews knew they stood no chance yet they stood under their own terms. The Holocaust took place during World War II in 1933. Nazis deported Jews into ghettos and eventually into extermination camps. Jews fought to maintain their humanity with armed and unarmed resistance. Armed resistance is the act of refusal with violence. Jews snuck in arms into the ghettos to fight against the Nazis. “Weapons were smuggled into ghettos” (Jewish…

Irene Safran: Holocaust survivorIrene Safran was a Jew that survived the devastating times of the Holocaust. She had 3 younger sisters and two brothers. Her journey to Auschwitz began in May of 1944. Her homeland was annihilated so her and her family were forced to move to a jewish ghetto. They were only able to bring a few belongings. Her family were being relocated, they were brought to a brick factory. They had to stay there for several dayswith hundreds of other jews from the same ghetto.…

People will say, “Oh that happened back then, there is no way it would happen again” or “ It is not a big deal, it happened forever ago.” When in reality, they do not want to admit the truth. And that goes for both the Rape of Nanjing and the Holocaust. Even though the Rape of Nanjing had its similarities with the…

The Resistance Against the Holocaust In The Merchant of Venice, Shylock, a Jew states, “You call me a misbeliever, cutthroat dog and spet upon my Jewish gaberdine.” Similar to Shylock, Jews all over the world were despised for their loyally held Jewish beliefs, for their ease in accumulating wealth, and the power that wealth has had in certain cultures. The Jews were treated with suspicion and outright segregation as a lower class people. The Holocaust brought this prejudice to the ultimate…

The Holocaust was an event that created the persecution and murder of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler and his collaborators. There was an addition five million non-Jewish victims, a total of eleven victims killed. About one million who were killed, were Jewish children.The greek root word “Holo” means whole and “caust” means burnt, Holocaust overall means sacrifice by fire. It all took place in Germany.About 42,500 facilities were used in German territories to concentrate and kill Jews and…

William worked in the United Nations, she migrated to the United States of America married Opdyke and had a daughter. “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong” is the first book that I ever read that made me cry. When I was little, I used to get bored of reading after a while and almost never finish a book. However, after reading this book and crying…

During the Holocaust Jews were stripped of their Human Rights and were forced to wear the Star of David because they were thought to be a threat. Jews were separated and forced into deadly ghettos in large cities for a extermination. Besides the deadly intent these ghettos had they were in such poor conditions that before the Nazis were able to exterminate any of the Jews some had often died from diseases and starvation. Jews were the sent to concentration camps which were created 1933 to…

The Holocaust was full of gruesome and atrocious events. The Nazi regime abhorrently killed tons of innocent people including, 1.5 million children. Between January 30, 1933 through May 8, 1945 an egregious event occurred, the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a movement by the Nazi regime during World War II. Over 1.5 million children were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Although many horrific events occurred during the Holocaust one of the worst was the killing of innocent children.…

put up with another's beliefs or ideas, even if you don't always agree. Have you ever been placed in situation like this? Many people have, including famous people in history like Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler. Another situation like this was the Holocaust in Cambodia. Not many people are aware about this. Being tolerative is a good trait to have in situations like these. Anne Frank was a young girl, that was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to her parents Otto and Edith Frank. Her family went into…