The feelings of anxiety, deception and suspense are three of the many words used to describe the Holocaust. Source B revealed how genocide was demonstrated in the Holocaust by providing evidence of classification and preparation. Likewise, Source C, a poem written by Pastor Neimoller, in which he describes the fear that the people felt when groups of Jews were disappearing each day. The day they came for them there was no one left to take a stand for the minority. In a similar way Source D, “The Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting, delivers a similar explanation by a group called “The Terrible Things” that caught groups of animals living in the forest one by one. Although when they came for the rabbits there were no other animals left to stand up for them. Exposing to us how in a similar way the Nazi’s would diminish the Jews rights though they had done nothing and no one said nor did a thing to prevent it. Therefore, the segregation of the Jewish people, also known as the Holocaust, is identified as the responsibility of the people.…
During the Holocaust, cruelty wasn’t something unfamiliar to the prisoners. As it is shown in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Natzies didn’t use only one form of cruelty to rule the prisoner's life. When someone talks about their experiences in the camps they never say I was never beaten or my family stayed together the whole time, they say how hard life was and how every day they had to fight the odds to live. Cruelty isn’t always a physical thing, someone can be emotionally cruel to someone else. In this book, Elie gives examples of several cruel things not only the Natzies did but also what the prisoners did to one another.…
The French, Spanish, and English all tried to colonize the Western Hemisphere. The French colonization in America started in the 16th century, and continued through centuries as France created an empire in the Western Hemisphere. They founded most colonies in the east of the U.S.A, and many Caribbean islands. The English were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas, and had a rivalry with the Spanish. The English began colonizing in the late 16th century and came out on top when all their colonies were built through America. The Spanish conquered most of the Western Hemisphere, and their colonization attempts were started by the Spanish conquistadors. It all started with Christopher…
The majority of Auschwitz victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was the largest mass murdering concentration camp in history. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the most unwanted place to go even though prisoners didn’t know where they were going when they were being deported. Many victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau and today that camp is a reminder of the horrible events that took place during the Holocaust.…
In addition to conspicuous physical scars, victims of abuse are often left with less-visible damage to their mental state, both emotional and spiritual. The consequences of emotional and spiritual suffering are explored in depth in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. In my opinion, the spiritual and emotional trauma experienced by Elie and the Jewish prisoners is more damaging than the physical effects. Firstly, their intense suffering results in a complete loss of faith for many characters after their life-changing experiences. Additionally, after time spent in the physically and mentally draining concentration camps, many of the prisoners resort to human survival…
There were hundreds, if not thousands of death camps settled across Europe during World War II. But despite the word “death camps”, a term that is used to describe the horrible events of the Holocaust, the historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps, but still, out of all of those, only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, as well as Treblinka were quite large, but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945, the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror that won’t, and shouldn’t, be forgotten.…
For this final project we have been asked to select a significant sociological event for which I have chosen the Holocaust of World War II, and then analyze the effects on society by answering the several questions. First how and why this event was sociologically interesting? Next we will discuss what social context that the event occurred in. Then we will look at how many people were affected by this event and the presence of possible trends in shared characteristics of the people affected by this event or similar events. Finally we will discuss the sociological theory that best explains this event.…
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?…
First, the Jews were given a number to tell them apart since they all looked alike. Elie says, “I became A-7713...then on I had no other name” (pg 42). This is a way someone would number a product or an item. The Jews were slowly losing their uniqueness. The Germans were trying to make all of them alike. Next, the Jews were separated from their families. Elie states, “I could see my mother and sisters move to the right...walking further and further away….where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (pg 29). Now, the Jews don’t have the freedom to be with their loved ones. The Nazi’s are not respecting the value humans have for relationships and just parting family without even a final goodbye. Finally, the Germans sent Jews on cattle cars with open tops. Elie mentions, “An infinitely long train composed of roofless cattle cars...SS shoved us inside, a hundred per car: we were so skinny!” (pg 97) The Jews were forced to be squished and starving while cold snow poured on them from the roofless cattle car! This is definitely considered as torturing someone. They were treated like packages being transported. Humans are not supposed to be treated that way. The Jews lost most of their identity and everything that made them who they were in the concentration camps.…
Throughout history many genocides have taken place. A specific genocide I have decided to focus on is the Holocaust which took place from 1933 to 1945. Throughout those twelve years many families were torn apart and separated.…
During the Holocaust, sixteen to twenty million Gentiles from various countries throughout Europe were killed. These victims included Gypsies, Poles and other Slavic people, people who were physically or mentally disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, clergymen, political enemies, resistance fighters, asocials, African-German children, and still others. Each group wore different colored badges as means of identification. These non-Jewish victims died from starvation, executions, beatings, overworking, relocations, gassing, experiments, and disease, resulting in devastating losses.…
The Holocaust was when millions of jews were killed by The Nazis. The Holocaust also changed how the people viewed each other and judge people on what’s being said. Before 1933 there was a war called World War 1. There were a lot of effects during the war. For example like child labor, hunger within the people because people didn’t have money to buy food for their families This and other causes resulted 38 million dying during the war. The direct cause of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. After that happened, the war started. World War 1 devastated Europe and created new countries. The war affected a lot of people, it was going for 4 years. During the WW1 the US and…
Prisoners of Auschwitz were already tormented beyond belief. The torment began even before we arrived at Auschwitz. We were transported in cattle cars. There was no food or water supplied. We were so…
The Holocaust was a trouble time for many people and when it was over of many it wasn 't over for others. The Nazis did horrible things and people wanted justice, that 's when the Nuremberg Trials started. The Nuremberg Trials concise of three main things, the crimes that were committed, what happened to the people that were convicted of the crimes, and who were people that here convicted with a crime.…
A standout amongst the most horrendous terms in history was utilized by Nazi Germany to assign people whose lives were irrelevant, or the individuals who ought to be murdered inside and out: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The expression was connected to the rationally hindered and later to the "racially substandard," or "sexually degenerate," and also to "foes of the state" both interior and outside. From ahead of schedule in the war, some portion of Nazi strategy was to murder regular citizens as a group, particularly focusing on Jews. Later in the war, this approach developed into Hitler's "last arrangement", the entire annihilation of the Jews. It started with Einsatzgruppen demise squads in the East, which slaughtered around 1,000,000 individuals in various slaughters, and proceeded in inhumane imprisonments where detainees were effectively denied legitimate nourishment and human services. It finished in the development of elimination camps - government offices whose whole intention was the precise murder and transfer of gigantic quantities of individuals.…