`` Defiance `` By Edward Zwick

This movie is a good representation on my learnings of the Jewish religion and culture. The biggest thing that stood out to me was the representation of prayer and the law. In class we learned those two things are some of major pillars in Orthodox Judaism, in the movie these were constantly displayed. Moshe and Mali did not have the means to celebrate Succoth, so they turned to prayer in which they were blessed by God. When the convicts have over-stayed there welcome and Moshe lies to them to get them to leave, Mali uses the story of Abraham and Sara welcoming guests as an example as what God intends for

The story is a documentary but in a cartoon, comic type of way and is like an adventure that makes you just reflect about your life and back then. LIfe was a struggle to survive during the war if you were a Jew for they would hunt you down. Also it just reflects on feeling of how you would feel if you lost your family and all you had, even if you were rich and wealthy you would be treated like less than a human. The book leaves you thinking on many concepts and it's true how could a human be treated as less just because of your religion.

The Jews were starved to death, shot down for the most pointless reasons, were put through all different kinds of torture. Those who survived were forced to work in labor camps, all because Adolf Hitler had a bone to pick with Jews. Adolf Hitler was a dictator who had 850,000 Nazis under his hand. He despised Jews, and used his forces to take Jews hostage and force them to work in concentration camps. Ironically enough, it is believed that Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry. He wanted to rid the world of Jews, creating what he believed to be a perfect civilization.

Overall, the film did exactly what any good dramatic film would do and that is make the audience feel something. The tragedy of the Holocaust has never been fictionally depicted from a German child’s view until this movie. The depiction of how a child who is protected from certain elements war might have thought in that era makes this film unique. The unbelievable conclusion is what makes this film unforgettable. The most important scene in the film is the ending, when Bruno

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

They had the mental and physical perseverance to live and survive through the hard times they faced in the story. Also, it'd be wise to take the chances in front of you and take risks because in the end one will rather gain from it, lose from it, or get nothing out of it. Taking from this we learn the importance of having integrity and to keep moving forward, leaping towards the risky things and not holding back. In the end as humans we all die and unlike some of the Jews, they never had the chance to live a full life that some us get to have, so take the chance that you have and do it for them. Go enjoy

Germans were encouraged by a particular hate against the Jewish people, the hate led the Jewish people to believe that they had to die, and they didn’t want to say no because they believed Hitler was right about the Jewish people. This shows that the Germans had hatred towards Jewish people because they didn’t want to oppose otherwise. They were making the Jewish people believe that they were going to die because of all of the hate that was going against them. The last example to show that ordinary Germans were responsible was the event in 1938 known as Kristallnacht- Jewish businesses and homes destroyed by mobs. What this shows is how they were developing hate throughout other groups to be against the Jewish people.

Hitler and the German Nazis had taken everything from the jews. They stripped them of their former lives, they took them away from their homes, family, and even took away their names. The jews were no longer people, but property. To portray this, the jews were stripped of their

Hitler tried to use dehumanization to wipe Jews off the face of the planet. Millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis in brutal and savage ways, but some were lucky enough to make it through the selection. Although the Jews survived the selection, they were forced to live like animals. The Jews were given scarce amounts of foods and necessities, which made the Jew’s struggles even harder. The Jews had been treated as if they were animals for so long, that they started to act inconsiderately of others in some situations. Dehumanization was portrayed in multiple ways, throughout the story.

First and foremost, German soldiers took all of the Jews out of Sighet. The Jewish police forced Jews out of their homes and into cattle cars. The German soldiers tricked Jews by telling them, they were going on a journey. A German soldier had said, “ Get up, sir, get up! You must ready

The Jews and other people were killed by the Nazis at random times multiple times. When the Jews were killed, other Jews were forced to do the killed Jews work or the Jewish people would be punished. They had very bad lives at this time.

The Germans were cruel in their psychological destruction of the Jews. Treated kindly and as if there was nothing to worry about by some German officers, most Jews seemed unsuspecting of what was to come. Wiesel recalls a German officer who stayed in one of his neighbor’s houses across the street: “he was a charming man, calm, likeable, and polite… he brought Mrs. Kahn a box of chocolates” (Wiesel 10). By fooling the Jews into a false sense of security, the process by which they were able to manipulate and control them was made easier for Germans, but the way it effected the Jews was proportionally inhumane.

Defiance is not a typical holocaust movie, although there are scenes of Nazi atrocities, the story is more about those Jews who escaped the German camps and fought back for their freedom. It is based on a true story of the Bielski brothers, they led thousands of Jews to hide from the Germans in the forests of Nazi occupied Belarus, and they managed to keep them alive for several years.

Being a Jew was not an easy thing. I was persecuted because of my religion. Hitler hated Jews, he wanted us all dead. Hitler was a very cruel man without a heart. Jews were controlled by the Nazi. Some Nazi’s were good people but they were also cowards. Some did not believe it was okay to do what they did but they wouldn’t change their actions.

Defiance is a movie written, directed and produced by Edward Zwick. This movie’s setting is in Nazi occupied territory in Belarus during World War II. The storyline follows the Bielski brothers as they attempt to evade capture and fight for their lives, and over the course of the movie, the lives of twelve hundred other Jewish survivors on their quest for life, liberty and the new promised land. The film features Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski and George MacKay as Aron Bielski. The film is based upon the novel Defiance: The Bielski Partisans written by Nechama Tec and is a true story s of survival during the Nazi occupation of eastern Europe. This is a gripping movie full of