The whole purpose of this project was to teach the students of Whitwell middle school about the Holocaust but it turned into something much more. The small town of Whitwell Tennessee decided to do a Holocaust project. They were going to collect 600,000 paper clips. you may ask yourself why paper clips? What do paper clips have to do with the holocaust? But the paper clip doesn't just hold papers together it held people together. The paper clip was a symbol that the jewish people wore. The symbol said that they were against hitler and the nazi party. The paper clips for Whitwell symbolized all the souls that had been taken in the Holocaust.…
This photograph has two main purposes: to commemorate a loved man who was murdered and to point out the injustice of his murder. There is a painting of this man with clouds behind him signifying he was a great man who is now in a better place, however, the man is covered in red and there is a large amount of red underneath him on the curb representing the bloodshed of his unfair death. Right in the center of this photograph written very largely across the wall of the building is the phrase, "When you take someone's life, you forfeit your own." There are also flowers that people have placed in the surrounding area, somewhat like a grave site. These things represent the people's opinion about this man and the killing.…
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.…
When one’s entire life becomes flipped upside down and ultimately destroyed, that person will need to hang on to something in order to survive. Once the Germans invaded Lvov, Poland, Krystyna’s family fled into hiding and left all their worldly possessions behind. Krystyna managed to keep the green sweater that her late grandmother had knitted for her all during the war. Without a doubt, the sweater brought to life her memory of her grandmother’s warm hugs every time she put it on. This was one of many miracles for her and her family. The green sweater now stands on permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and is a tribute to the struggles of all Jewish children during the war, as well as a tribute to the child that Krystyna Chiger used to be (5).…
Nuremberg Trials started to gain justice for all the victims that lost their lives during the holocaust. Many people do not know that most of the intimate were not Jews because they were sent straight off to the death camps (¨Nuremberg Trials¨ 1). People now correlate the Jews and the Holocaust together because the Jews were the most targeted group of the Holocaust. Nuremberg Trials was a series of 13 trails placed in Nuremberg, Germany (¨Nuremberg Trials¨ 1).…
Throughout history people go through denial about if things could happen or if it could happen. More than enough people think that the Holocaust did not happen, although there are criminal records, and that an American Judge Ruled that the Holocaust was a Historical fact.…
“I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago… It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” -Elie Wiesel. Millions of heads were enforced in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors. Mr. Wiesel survived through the genocide known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred from 1939 to 1945 in Europe. The mass annihilation was lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler had one capital goal, to be the ultimate ruler. While Germany was experiencing difficult times, Hitler took the opportunity to use Jews and other parties/groups as scapegoats and blame Germany’s issues on them; this turned the people against them, making the extermination significantly easier. Many deny the manifestation of the Holocaust. The revisionists, Holocaust deniers, believed the Holocaust was a hoax and was over exaggerated. Problematically, revisionists argue the occurrence of the Holocaust is false and out of proportion. However, the significant amount of evidence found such as physical evidence (documents, pictures, and videos) and personal accounts from witnesses has proven the Holocaust did happen and was not an aggrandizement.…
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.…
Like the visitor is surrounded by it. The magnifying glass makes the small text seem big, similar to how at first people didn’t respect women in the war. But later on, the respect began to grow and become larger. The magnifying glass is a symbol that looking deeper within will show the importance of what is beneath. Beneath are the real jobs women completed in World War II not just paperwork, but independent problem solving and combat jobs. We used wood for the walls to show that the women in the war were strong and tough, they didn’t break down after one failed mission. The ground is… The images we chose for the top half of one wall are a photo of the entire OSS team and the identity badge of Maureen Patterson. We chose to put these on top because these are what people at this time saw easily. This is what they perceived the OSS to be; just a group of people that did things in the war. On the bottom half the images need the magnifying glass to be clearly seen. The images are of Barbara Lauwers getting a bronze star, Elizabeth P. McIntosh on duty, and Elizabeth Swantek awarded CIA Career Intelligence…
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.…
The main motive of this photograph is essentially a global history of the Jewish people. It is very specific, sad and instructive. In order to properly clarify this picture, we have to start from the beginning, shed light on the history of the Jewish people, and pay particular attention to the dark times during the Holocaust, and particularly refer to the Jewish understanding of the holiday.…
To educate millions of people about the dangers of hatred and the importance of preventing genocide, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was founded in Washington D.C. in1993. It is ironic how the museum is located among monuments and museums that symbolize freedom on the National Mall. The “Holocaust which occurred elsewhere but which is of universal significance” (Ruffins) was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in Europe. The mission of the museum is “is to advance and disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events of the Holocaust” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The memory of the Holocaust is a mix of sad emotions and the way the main exhibition is presented to the visitors makes them feel like they were one of the victims. The architect James Ingo…
World War Two was a devastating time in history, where tragic events happened all around the world, one event was the famous, Holocaust. The Holocaust was a monumental occasion I’m sure when many people hear the name Adolf Hitler, they think of a cruel being who took the lives of millions of Jews, the man who starved, gassed, and just plain out shot Jews to death. It’s hard to believe that anyone would do that but those inhumane actions did in fact happen. When you think Holocaust, you think of Jews, but what many don’t know is that not only were the jewish affected. During the World War Two, events like the bombing in Pearl Harbor, the fall of the Japanese Empire, and the start of the Cold War, the Holocaust and World War Two affected many…
World War II has always been a fascination of mine. I would chose to spend a day with a Holocaust survivor to learn about the terrors that they were forced to endure during the war. The knowledge that is released to the public is limited in number with actual evidence of the survivors. We can read about what it would have been like, but to experience it with someone first hand is worth so much more.…