The September 11 attacks were a series of suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. On the morning of the attacks 19 of Al-Qaeda’s terrorists hijacked four jet airliners. The hijackers then crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and many of those who were working in the buildings. Both of the buildings collapsed within two hours of the collisions. Because of the collapse nearby buildings were damaged, even destroyed. The hijackers crashed the third airplane into the Pentagon which is located in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane was crashed into a field near Shanksville in Pennsylvania after some of its passengers attempted to retake control of the plane. Unfortunately…
Introduction: Hard workers up in the towers minding their own business, when all of a sudden a crash arises. Two planes less than 5 minutes, on the morning of September 11, crash into the beautiful twin towers in NYC. Many years before this terrorist attack, in December of 1941, a similar but as well different attack occurred. Planes struck the navy base on Pearl Harbor. Streets are full, people working and a plane strikes a tower in the center of New York City. Working on a navy base and planes come out unexpected with terrorists planning to destroy everything. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was definitely unexpected, as was the plane wrecks on 9/11; many can believe Pearl Harbor did not hit as many emotions because it was not terrorists just people from Japan with hate. September 11th was a terrorist attack…
The Rape of Nanking and the Holocaust were both two tragic events in history. They both include innocent lives being lost and have their own stories behind it. However, does this make the two tragedies classified as the same? All massacres have their similarities and differences, and The Rape of Nanking compared to the Holocaust is similar in some ways, but also different in other ways.…
One fact that is most disturbing about the Holocaust is that they were forced to hide. People shouldn’t be treated like this and people shouldn’t treat other people like this. For example, in the Diary of Anne Frank the Franks and Van Daans and Dussel had to go into hiding because they would be forced to go to concentration camps. Their families would have been distributed and they would’ve not seen each other for years.…
Life was not easy when the Nazi’s were in control. The Nazi’s did a lot of bad things while they were in power. For example, On November 10th, 1938 “Kristallnacht”or the “Night of Broken Glass”, the Germans were forced to kill every Jew or to order them to do labor. Also, they had to burn every shop owned by a Jew.…
During the late 1930’s the world was contaminated by the Second World War and the Holocaust. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Holocaust is defined as follows: “a sacrifice wholly consumed by fire.” During the Holocaust, the Nazis, under the command of Adolf Hitler, liquidated over six million Jews. There is one Jewish survivor whose story especially touched my heart and changed my attitude towards life for the better. This amazing woman is Krystyna Chiger. Krystyna and her family escaped the Nazi liquidation by living in sewers for fourteen months (qtd. in “The Girl in the Green Sweater” 5). Accordingly, thorough assessments of my personal experiences according to the life lessons of Krystyna Chiger descriptively visualize the Holocaust and its everlasting impact on society.…
In the middle of the 20th century the biggest and the most known genocide known as the holocaust took place which had very severe affect on this world. By definition a genocide is a “considered massacre or killing of an enormous group of people particularly those of a specific group or country”. There are several other types of cases of genocides which have took place throughout the history. An other example of a genocide that has occurred is the Bosnian Herzegovina genocide. There are some similarities and some differences in these two totally unlike events.…
Pogroms and the Holocaust The words pogroms and Holocaust are very similar because they both mean that something is demolished or destroyed violently and both of them refer to Jewish people being treated very unfairly and even being murdered. According to one source, the word pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak or to demolish violently” and the same source also says that the word Holocaust means “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war”(“Pogroms”). This shows how the two words, holocaust and pogrom, are so closely related.…
World War II is an event that has marred the lives of people from all different races, cultures, and continents. Two of the most terrifying and grim incidents happened during this war: the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Germany wiped out the Jewish population in Europe, while the United States shocked the world with its weapon of mass destruction that destroyed two industrial cities of Japan. Although it is very difficult to actually understand the atrocities that occurred during this time without experiencing it first-hand, From the Ashes of Sobibor by Thomas Blatt and Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa give a glimpse into these events. The perspectives…
"There bodies cast to the side like garbage, left to rot in the sun". The sheer hatred that both groups of antagonists (Hutus and Nazis) had towards the opposing class was insane. Both genocides were not only almost unfathomable in scale, but also extremely efficient. In the Holocaust many neighbors and friends sold others out to the Nazis just like how those in Rwanda went to kill their neighbors. Both of the excerpts contain many differences and similarities between the details of the genocides…
During WWII, The Nazi party killed 11 million people for either being Jewish, disabled, or different from their ideal human of blonde hair and blue eyes. ISIS have currently killed 170,000 people and no, it is nowhere close to the holocaust, but the morals are the same. By killing thousands of people with different beliefs, ISIS causing the next Holocaust.…
A war had a huge impact on our history and society, which makes us who we are today. This war created terror and spread throughout the whole world. The “Holocaust” was caused by the dictator Adolf Hitler; he caused the bloodiest war in history killing 11 million people,6 Million of them were Jewish. He was the main problem of this war and needed to be taken down right away. The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies that left a mark on all the Jews.…
Everything I have heard, seen, and discussed about the Auschwitz Death Camp and the Holocaust in general has been bone chilling and made me sick to my stomach. One major issue was the conditions the Jews and the “un-American or imperfect” had to face; pictures depict men so bony and skinny that they could die from starvation at any second. Another sickening sight was the sign above the entrance to Auschwitz that read “Arbeit Macht Frei”, which translates to “Work makes you free”. Just think of all the people who got a sense of false hope and never were able to leave the concentration camps alive. While reading the excerpt from Knight, the thought entered my mind of being sent left or right during selection, possibly being split from your…
By the end of World War II, about two-thirds of the Jewish population were killed. Countless people lost their family and their friends. When the survivors were released from the concentration camps, numerous individuals had nowhere to go, and no place to call home. The Allied forces tried a multitude of Nazi War criminals in the Nuremberg Trials hoping that the imprisonment or killing of these flawed, yet guilty German officials would bring justice to those who survived the Holocaust. But was justice truly ever achieved?…
The Holocaust, also referred to as “The Final Solution”, is considered to be one of the most deadly and extensive forms of genocide in American history. Genocide is, “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political or cultural group (dictionary.com).” Hitler and his army, the Nazis, quickly rose to power between 1941 and 1945. They targeted many different races out of hatred, and the largest group being the Jewish population. This massive catastrophe resulted in the death of about 17 million people and six million Jews.…