Yad Vashem

helped, Oskar Schindler left behind the memory of a hero, also earning gratitude and respect form the Zionist movement, a movement that supports the re-establishment of Jewish homeland of the historic Land of Israel (“Oskar Schindler”). “In 1962, Yad Vashem awarded Schindler the title “Righteous Among the Nations” in recognition of his efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust at great personal risk” (Crowe). The title “Righteous Among the Nations” is for non-Jews whose motive was to save the…

and she wanted them to have the letters that they had written. She also contacted several museums and establishments to take in and exhibit the information. Finally, she got in contact with the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel. They were delighted to receive the items. Today, they are still at the Yad…

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was an important event that happened and we will never forget what happened. The Holocaust occurred around the Second World War and Nazis, a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, killed people, mainly Jews as an act of racism. During the Holocaust, about six million Jews died. Between one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand helped the Nazis in the planning or the execution of the Holocaust. The Holocaust persecution was carried…

Many people can not even fathom the horrors and treatment that the Jewish population had to suffer throughout the Holocaust. Simon Welch, a holocaust survivor, had one experience that he would never forget. While working near a hospital, he was asked by a German soldier for forgiveness for his wrong deeds. Whelsiver did not give an answer, but many people have given their opinions and words on how they would have handled the matter. One of the many to discuss their thoughts is Harry James Cargas…

(First Page) The holocaust happened between 1941 and 1945 (USHMM. “Timeline of Events.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Source i). Around 6 million Jews were murdered and about 17 million people overall. This was a horrific period in history. The holocaust was truly a crime against humanity. It killed millions of people and affected even more lives. Before 1933, World War 1 devastated Europe. Germany had built up resentment after the war’s peace settlement and the Treaty of…

1. How did your perspective of the Polish-Jewish past change during the project? Initially, I primarily excused the Poles and saw them as Germans' collaborators. However, during the project I have come to understand that many Poles took part in saving the Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, I learned that their situation sometimes was difficult too. It was a war after all. Thus, today it seems I less blame them as a whole, but rather understand that in each society there were good and…

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build, a defense against repetition” (Wiesenthal). Simon Wiesenthal has shown moral courage throughout his life, whether it comes from growing up or what he has become. He is a Jewish Austrian survivor of the holocaust and deciated is time to gathering information and tracking down fugitive Nazi war criminals such as Adolf Eichmann. By seeking justice and not…

The experience of war is different for all involved. Victims feel pain. They are isolated and forgotten, thinking no one remembers their plight. Especially those who are physically removed from their communities and homes, locked in prisons and concentration camps, unsure of what each moment will hold. And then there are those who watch situations develop and unfold. They read the headlines, feel a momentary sadness as they think about the prisoners, but then move on to the next event in…

Alexander Antonellis 7Z 12/6/14 Biography Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia, what was then a German province in the Austro-Hungarian empire it now belongs to the the Czech Republic. Schindler grew up and attended grammar school in a region known as the Sudetenland. Schindler worked for his father, Hans Schindler, selling farm equipment. Schindler's father was the owner of a large factory. After his marriage in 1928 however Schindler left his father’s factory. To…

one of the boys got sick. After a while, all three boys were sick. The dad that was sick would bring medicine home for him and give some of it to each of the boy. One of the boys died and the other two survived and had the family remembered at the Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust…