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According to “Jakobs Story” The Holocaust was a bad place for the Jews and homosexuals and all the kind of people the Germans hated. Some people were put to death for even helping these people. Jacob states that “We were beaten constantly” (Jacob paragraph 8). This show how much these people were despised by society and the Germans. This also can show how the people suffered the these cams and had the make some kind of sacrifices.

In the movie Schindler's List, the story of the Holocaust is told from a dual point of view; that of the Jewish people who are downtrodden,

Describe: Liesel and her best friend, Rudy Steiner, has been walking through town when a woman in a window above them looks to the streets and announces, “Die Juden;” The Jews. This is when a vast amount of Jewish prisoners begins to march their way down Munich Street while Nazi soldiers barked orders at them. To everyone, especially Liesel (who had a Jewish person living in her basement), this was the furthest thing from a pleasant sight. And apparently, Hans Hubermann had enough of this, as if being controlled by God himself, Hans walked over and offered a particularly weak Jew a piece of bread out of pure sympathy, only to be beaten by overlooking Nazis.

As Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel once said, “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,” that is why we are called to remember. Many movies, novels, and story representations of the Holocaust have been created in order to spread the memory of the past. An important part of remembering is learning, and therefore not repeating the same mistakes once again. Movies may find it difficult to represent the Holocaust accurately, while also giving it meaning and artistic expression. The writer, Edwin de Vries, and the director, Jeroen Krabbé, strive to represent the legacies of the Holocaust and Jewish culture in the film, Left Luggage (1998), based on a novel by Carl Friedman through a portrayal of the daily lives of Holocaust survivors and their children in late 1960s Antwerp, their direct confrontations with their memories of the Holocaust, and character development. The film shows us many examples of the legacy of the Holocaust as it is passed through the children of survivors, and how it continues to affect their daily lives. The audience understands the intentions through depictions of muteness and the necessity to remember.

People that survived the Holocaust were optimistic and/or hid but today most are guilty. They have guilt in them because they survived while others were dying amongst them.Surviving World War II meant freedom but many did not get to that point, unfortunately. They were brutally murdered or died either from working too much , starvation, and/ or diseases that spread like wildfire. Unbelievably, smells from the gas chambers, where victims were poisoned with gasses, are still present at concentration camps locations . Many survivors have never been able to get over this horrific event that took place because of the terrifying memories from the camps. Memories of how ruthlessly people were being killed, disgusting food, and the hard work, haunt

Six million people, who were all Jews from men and women to children and infants, suffered grievous oppression. Those were six million people who were innocently murdered. Not only that, but those six million people were the primary victims courtesy of a despotic Nazi assassination. This is the scenery of the Holocaust, a 4-year period of a systematically brutal decimation of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and so on and so forth. The Jews fled from Germany clandestinely to make sure that. According to the evidence amassed with the sources given, the Holocaust started through unchecked patriotism.

Many Jewish people were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust. “They were not allowed to go to most public areas such as the park” (Children and the Holocaust) “ and the Jewish children weren’t allowed to go to the same school with the other German children” (International Institute for Holocaust Research). Many families tried to leave and escape before it became dangerous for Jews to live in German occupied countries, but “lack of money and strict immigration control caused them not to be able to” (Children and the Holocaust). “Some of the lucky families were able to find a hiding place” (International Institute for Holocaust Research), or escape before the Holocaust, but some of the other “families that could not get away were sent to the ghettos or killing camps” (Children

Imagine surviving the Holocaust while millions of other people have perished. Would you feel the guilt that you were alive while the person next to you did not? Would you even have saved them? While many consider the Holocaust in the past, for survivors the horror will never be completely over.

There was a time where i had a realization about the world i live in. We took a trip to Washington D.C where we went to museums and learned a lot about history but one museum stuck out to me. It was the Holocaust museum. I saw how Jewish people were treated back then simply because of their religion. Their valuables were taken by the Germans, their homes were either raided or taken away from them. They were forced to live in very small ghettos with 400,000 of them. They were killed and beaten on the streets and nazis treated them as puppets. They embarrassed them by making them dance for their own amusement. They were treated extremely poorly whereas the nazis were treated with respect. It made me think about a time where people discriminated against african americans during segregation. Throughout this time, African Americans were treated as second class citizens to white people. They could not use the same water fountains, restrooms, or restaurants and they were stuck with the dirty and gross ones whereas white people were treated respectfully. If a white person was standing and an african american person was sitting they had to get up for the white person.

The Holocaust: A genocide in which six million Jews died, still remembered today as the single most grotesque massacre in human history. For most, the concept of Hitler’s rise to power, the building of his strength, and the process by which his orders were carried out remains an unimaginable concept. In the mind, laws of morality don’t bend. In looking at the Holocaust, one has to wonder how so many managed to break the rules of humanity so quickly. The easiest answer questions the existence of ethical laws at all. Although others consider the vast majority who did not fall victim to Hitler’s power to simply be better people, a consensus of Germany pre-war reveals that they were not miniature bigots.

Although the Holocaust was a horrific event that caused thousands upon thousands of people to lose faith in their God, some people were able to come out of the holocaust stronger and with more faith in God. Some people thought of it as their God testing them to see how faithful they really are, while others thought of it as a draining situation. Most of the victims had the mindset that a God they had devoted so much of their lives to would not put something like this in their life, which in turn caused them to lose their faith in their God. Some people have to ability to pull positive things out of any situation, no matter how bad it may be, and that is what was really important during the Holocaust. ”We who lived, in concentration camps can

“The fact is they know I went through hell.” -Professor Bacharach, Holocaust Survivor. Ever since many centuries ago, Jewish people were treated unfairly and unjustly according to their religion and characteristics. The Holocaust was a fearful and painful genocide because of anti-semitism throughout European countries. Up to six million Jews died in the harrowing genocide, along with the death of many other religious and ethnical groups ("Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution"). As much as a fraction of the number of Jews survived. With much grief and sorrow during the Holocaust, the survivors had to suffer the emotional and physical trauma after the event. Survivors had to face the reality of rebuilding their lives after the

Countless events in the world have been caught in history books but between the ones that have held to the memory of people is the holocaust. The Holocaust was a very disturbing event that triggered an eye-opener for individuals about how harsh humans can be. The purpose for this is since the vast number of victims and questions as to what was the actual motive behind the need to defeat a whole community. Holocaust is an organized, state financed torment and slaying of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi government run by Adolf Hitler. Separately from Jews, other groups considered lesser or anti-establishment, such as Polish, Gypsies, and Romans were killed. There were numerous reasons for these gruesome murders, insensitive imprisonment and enslavements of victims who were forced into labor while starving.

Survivors’ guilt has been studied in many situations because it is a psychological disorder that affects individuals that have survived a scarring catastrophe. The Holocaust is one of these catastrophes that have left survivors with a sense of guilt. A study done by Gertrude Schneider upon 50 Holocaust survivors demonstrated that some but not all had a sense of survivors’ guilt (Schneider, 1975). Fourteen of the interviewed victims admitted that they felt bad for “being passive victims” and that they would have “preferred to have died honorably” (Schneider, 1975). Others said that there was no way that they could have fought back and prevent them from going through that horrible experience of being in the camps (Schneider, 1975).

(Borowski 37) The sympathy in the beginning starts to wain and you find yourself feeling a sense of disgust that he is using these people and being vulture like, “can’t you see how much easier life is becoming around here: no limit on packages, no more beatings?” (Borowski 31) Nazi SS Officer, Franz Suchomel, in his documentary testimony in Shoah, was not only a witness to the horror of the concentration camps, but played a role, whether direct or indirect, in the killing of 12,000 – 15,000 Jews a day. His account of the events, offers no opportunity to feel sympathy towards him as he shows no sympathy towards what happened to the thousands of Jews a day who came through Treblinka. He brushes aside any responsibility and simply notes that “it’s an order from the Fuhrer.”