One of the many who did not make it through the Holocaust was a young man by the name of Moshe Flinkler. He was born on October 9, 1926 in the Hague, Netherlands to a moderately wealthy Jewish family. Before the Nazis took over, Moshe was an avid student with a propensity for studying languages, especially Hebrew. When the Nazis invaded, Moshe and his family fled to Belgium, where they hoped to pass as Christians. This proved to be a false hope when the Nazis stormed their apartment on April 7, 1944. That same year, Moshe would die at Auschwitz, alongside his family.…
Oskar Schindler was a man who lived in Krakow, Poland throughout the period of the Holocaust and World War II. During the Holocaust, Oskar Schindler managed to help over one thousand Jewish people escape from a deadly persecution. Schindler accomplished something that was socially unacceptable at the time; he prevailed against a system that showed no weakness. Schindler manipulated hundreds of men and women during the Holocaust so that he may do the unthinkable, and saved those he should most certainly despise. Oskar Schindler was able to complete all that he did because of his personal background.…
The Special Adviser is responsible for offering policy advice on Holocaust-related matters, doing so in close coordination with the Department of State’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and with the Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes in the Office of the Legal Adviser.…
Rudolf Hoess was architect and commandant of the largest killing ever created. The death camp was called Auschwitz. On May 1, 1940, Rudolf was appointed commandant of a camp in western poland. The camp was built near a town called Oswiecim. Hoess was commandant for three and a half years. He expanded the original facility which went into a sprawling complex name by Auschwitz. September 3, 1941 Hoess began his job after visiting Treblinka and learning about how they did human extermination. Rudolf made Auschwitz better than Treblinka by making his gas chambers bigger to kill 2,000 people rather than 200 at a time. Hoess tried a lot of different ways of gassing the Jews. In the early days he used cotton soaked with sulfuric acid then he introduced hydrogen cyanide which killed people within three to fifteen. He said “we knew they were dead because they stopped screaming.” In the last days of the war, Himmler told Hoess to disguise himself among the German Navy personnel. He got away from being arrested for years. On March 11, 1946, he was arrested by British troops. He was disguised as a farmer as he called himself Franz Lang.…
The Holocaust was a time when the Nazi’s went on their terrifying plan to eliminate the jewish population from the face of the Earth and putting the “Aryan” race as the rulers. Fortunately the Nazis did not achieve this goal and ⅓ of the jewish population survived to tell the horrors of the Holocaust and one of those people is Arek Hersh. Arek Hersh was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1929 whose father was a boot maker for the army and had four siblings. In Poland “He remembers going to the park in the summer, ice-skating on the river in winter and singing solos in the choir.” (Holocaust Learning)…
“Schindler our protector, he was the only one who could protect us.” is a quote by Sol Urbach, a refugee of Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a Holocaust rescuer who saved over 1,200 prisoners during World War II. He rescued many of these prisoners by employing them in his factory as an excuse for their release. Oskar’s personality developed when he realized how awfully Jews were being treated during the war, so he decided to use his wealth to save the countless lives of others. Schindler used his cleverness, generosity, and social status to keep his Jews from the brutal conditions they might have had to face by Nazi party. Oskar may not have had a perfect early or adult life, but he is an outgoing hero of the Holocaust.…
“Adolf Eichmann was considered one of the main perpetrators and contributors to the development and the rise of what came to be known as the Holocaust.” (Source A) this quote can be taken and considered in the fact that Adolf Eichmann was involved in the mass killings of Jews known as the Holocaust. In order to understand more on Adolf Eichmann we need to look deeper into the history of Adolf Eichmann.…
Rudolf Höss was a Nazi leader who had an important role in the Holocaust. Höss was responsible for the deaths of many Jews and other Europeans. He thought of new ways to kill Jews quicker and more efficiently, and also made other improvements to Auschwitz. He was dedicated to his job and guaranteed the executions at Auschwitz would work with little error. Though Höss appeared to be a hard-working individual, some argue that he was a lapdog to other German leaders. No matter what, Höss accomplished his goals and did his job very well. Rudolf Höss murdered millions and played a crucial role as an executioner in the Holocaust.…
Franz Stangl should be held responsible for his actions during the Holocaust. He was not a very nice person. He was a SS officer and was the commander of the death camps. Under his command he ordered over 900,000 deaths. His main victims were jews, twins, gypsies, people with mental problems, and handicapped people. He treated them with total disrespect. According to the article, his words were ”I didn’t feel they were human.”…
Rudolf Vrba is a name that will be remembered for decades. He, with a childhood friend, escaped from one of the most notorious Nazi death camps. Auschwitz. Just the mention of the name can bring back haunting memories from Holocaust survivors. Memories of families being ripped apart, mutilated, and burned. Memories of a time when Jews were persecuted for doing nothing wrong. A time when they had to fight for every minute of life. A time during which almost unfathomable war crimes were being committed daily for a man by the name of Adolf Hitler. This is where the story begins.…
Like Elie Wiesel said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel wrote a book about his life during the holocaust. In the book he talks about racism and hatred toward the Jewish religion. This relates to how people are judged at court for their appearance and how they talk or look. People who have a low socioeconomic status are disadvantaged in the criminal justice system especially when examining how they do not have enough money for a good lawyer, they won’t be able to pay off any of their fines and they may or may not have enough money to buy nice clothes for court.…
Surviving the Holocaust was not easy, but Elie Wiesel did it, and wrote many books about it. He has won many awards like the Nobel Peace Prize. Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust, wrote books about his experiences, and has influenced our society.…
One of the worst most detrimental event that has ever occurred in our history was the Holocaust. Arising in 1933, Hitler was in charge of this awful plan. Known as the Nazis, they strived to kill Jews or put them in labor camps. There ended up being about a 6 million death count of just the Jewish community. There were few people who would stand for the Jews, defending them and their rights. Some people even helped Jews escape from their death camps or labor camps. All of these people demonstrated moral courage by helping the Jews and risking their lives and everything they had to give the Jews a chance at life.…
The quotation tells me that the plight of Jews under the Nazis was such a struggle and they were helpless. This scene where lieutenant Kotler does something to Pavel at the dinner table when he spilled the bottle of wine on his lap, which is not mentioned but the reader can assume it was something extremely brutal and unpleasant for Pavel, is just one example of the cruelty that Jewish people had to live though for more than ten years during the Holocaust. In the book it Bruno’s father says, “We are correcting history here.” Jewish had to live through so much torment that the Nazis inflicted on them because in the opinion of most Germans, they were “Correcting history” like Bruno’s father says in the book, by getting rid of weak and dangerous…
A holocaust survivor and an outstanding writer a Nobel peace prize winner all I'm one! He was a Romanian American Jewish writer. He was an holocaust survivor. He had three sisters and a mom and a dad both his parents and little sister died in the holocaust leaving him and his two older sisters the only survivors from his family. Elie Wiesel encouraged hope in the face of fear through his works ¨Never Will I Forget¨, ¨Nobel Peace Prize Speech¨, and one of his untitled poems.…