The Holocaust was a period of time when the Jews were endangered due to the actions of the Nazi’s and their leader Adolf Hitler‚ who ordered the execution of all Jews. This caused the disruption of the peaceful living of the Jews‚ causing them to sacrifice many dear things to them‚ such as their homes and origin of culture and traditions. Adolf Hitler’s regime in the country of Germany caused many conflicts and disruptions in the once peaceful world that had struck horror into the thoughts of many
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“To build up a future‚ you have to know the past” Otto Frank. I chose this quote because it was said by Otto Frank. Speaking of Otto Frank how did he survive the Holocaust? Was it because he was Strong? Or because he was it because he was a leader? Otto Frank survived because he was a leader to the group‚ he was wise and he was strong. Otto Frank was leader to the group up in the annex. For example in the play‚ Otto took care of all of the problems in the annex. Like when Anne was angry with her
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by the germans. When he came back he described the morbid events that happened the camp. This quote is one of the descriptions of what they did to the Jews. I believe that this quote has a very strong description of the inhumane things that the Nazis did to the Jews. It explains how they mercilessly killed them. It states‚ “Without passion or haste” (Wiesel 6) which indicates they used an extremely cruel tactic of extermination; slow and torturous. Without passion indicates that they treated the
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Imagine living through the Holocaust as a European Jew. Some of the hardships of those who survived the Holocaust seem unbearable. The book Maus by Art Spiegelman depicts his father’s story as he lives in Poland during WWII as a Jew. It covers his life while he was hiding from the German army and after when he was brought to Auschwitz. Vladek Spiegelman was lucky to have survived the Holocaust because‚ of the dangerous situations he encountered‚ the time he spent in concentration camps and the deadly
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The Holocaust was a very tragic and horrifying event in history that changed human minds forever. Millions of Jews died in this event‚ because of mass murders and death camps. Adolf Hitler was a very cruel‚ but persuasive leader of Germany. He turned many people against the Jewish by blaming the loss of World War I on them. Adolf started to send Jews to concentration and death camps‚ so Jews hid. Many Jews went into hiding‚ such as‚ Jeannine Burk. During her childhood she hid for two years from the
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The memoir Night‚ was written by Elie Wiesel.In the book‚ Eliezer and his family were chased out of their home town Sighet. From time to time‚ they move from one camp to another. Captured by the Germans‚ Eliezer .and his Dad get separated from their family. They obtain freedom and are liberated. In the .memoir Night‚ right to fair public hearing‚ right to life‚ and freedom from arbitrary arrest and exile‚ were some human rights violated in the memoir Night. Right to fair public hearing is a human
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people who had caused his home country to fall victim during World War I. Because of his desire to make the land free of racial impurities‚ he often went to drastic measures to ensure that no Jew would make it past his inspection; furthermore‚ the Holocaust came into existence. Hitler was a man who led a life of sadistic acts that fueled his burning fire for what many would call anti-Semitism. To punish those who Hitler felt were impure‚ he instated a vast number of concentration camps that offered
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Night By Elie Wiesel Hope or despair? The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a first-person narrative about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of over 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II The book tells the story of the time when the author was taken to a concentration camp by the Nazis. At the time he was only 14 years old and lived in Sighet‚ Transylvania. He tells us all of his horrifying experiences as a Jewish prisoner. Even though he tells us this gruesome
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When a person first reads the famous quote “We must always take side. Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented.” Spoken by the notable Elie Wiesel while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize of 1986‚ it could cause a reaction; in this case any reaction could occur depending on a person’s morals‚ ethics and even values. But‚ what does this quote really mean? Does it define the horrific situations that Rwanda‚ the Nazi’s‚ or Syria went through
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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
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