Yad Vashem

“After World War II and the surrender of Nazi Germany an international tribunal put senior Nazis on trial in Nuremberg for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”First, The Nuremberg trials were a series of trails putting Nazi Germans to justice. These were the worst people in history. They tortured Jews, killed them by the millions, abused them, humiliated them, and more. There were judges all around the world and 800 documents and 30 witnesses took part in the Nuremberg…

socialist progressives in the Western countries and Muslim radicals around the world, who dream of Israel's demise, the mass murder of six million Jews will eventually become a myth. The words "never again" are just that, the words. Places like Yad Vashem are important reminder of what happened and what can easily happen again. It is up to Jewish people to make sure that the past is not forgotten as it is the only way to the secure the…

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim...-Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust, also referred as the “Shoah” was a genocide of Jews by the Nazi Germany, with a Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire” , many people understood the term for crimes and horrors perpetrated by the Nazis, today it is celebrated internationally as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” every 27th of…

Committee in southern France. During her time there she has saved over nine women and children. She saved a little girl named Ginette Kalish who was only twelve years at the time by taking her in from her mother and father on a train, Kalish told Yad Vashem in their article (Women of Valor) about Gunden “At the time I was 12 and certainly scared, but Lois Gunden was kind and passionately determined to take me and these other Jewish children out of Rivesaltes to protect them from harm.” Gunden…

Europe, people hung on to the hope that perhaps their own lives would be spared. Earlier on in World War two, many people decided to watch and not take part the elimination of the Jewish race. This term is widely known as a Bystander. An authority by Yad Vashem explains “The vast majority of people in Germany and occupied Europe were aware, to at least some extent, of how the Nazi regime was treating the Jews. Nevertheless, they took no active position on the matter...” Additionally, many…

The film Hidden in Silence is based on a true story. In Przemysl, Poland, during WWII, the city comes under Nazi control. The Jews are sent to ghettos. Catholic teenager Stefania Podgorska (called Fusia in the movie) sneaks 13 Jews into her attic while raising her little sister. Every day, they risk execution--by smuggling food and water to the silent group living above them. The film is not very explicit in the violence against the Jews; instead, it conveys a message of hope for mankind,…

Isabella Shapiro Nance Keyes ENGL O8A 22 November 2014 Never Forget In 1933, a deadly period in time known as the holocaust changed the Jewish nation forever. The word Holocaust by definition means “a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire” (Dictionary.com) and that’s what it was. From 1933 to 1945 six million European Jews lost their lives simply because they were Jewish. Unfortunately, I lost all of my extended family during this time period, however I am fortunate…

Jane Haining was a matron at the Girl's Home of the Scottish Mission in Budapest who always put her kid's lives before hers. She was born in Dunscore, Dunfriesshire in Scotland. She spend twelve years of her life teaching and had grown to be loved and respected by her students and colleagues. Her mother died when she was only five so she grew up taking care of her sisters and learning to put her life behind others. In 1939, Nazis invaded Poland and Britain and declared war on Germany. Hungary…

Over 1000 Jewish laborers were spared during the horrors of the Holocaust by an undeniable hero, Oskar Schindler. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a tired lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, a falsely accused African American man. Atticus lives in a small town in Alabama dominated by traditional views and unspoken bitterness towards African Americans. Oskar Schindler lived in a postwar Germany where the Jewish population were defamed as the root of the nation’s…

Events that Prove the Validity of the Holocaust Throughout the 1940s, Nazi Germany was capturing the Jewish population from all over Eastern Europe. Concentration camps were a major cause of death during the Holocaust. This topic is important for the general public to be educated about because it will help promote worldwide education. Without the world knowing the consequences of dehumanization and genocide, history will only repeat itself. Holocaust revisionists believe that the Holocaust did…