History Is Never Remembered Objectively

Though many innocents died without having the chance to smell freedom again, there have been survivors that have had the chance to openly describe their memories during the Holocaust to others. Each sentence, phrase, and word that the survivors expose through the testimony, are over and above powerful than anyone can imagine. It not only grabs you deep into another dimension, but it proves that no matter what religion, race, belief, or type of person you are, everyone's voice is powerful to change someone fully inside and outside… just like Cesia's

Ever since the beginning of civilization starting with the beginnings of even Mesopotamia, history has not only been biased but written by one type of people: the winners. Rarely in history do the winners of a war or battle not write what had happened in their single point of view. The losers are nearly always left out; they're side is almost never heard or even known to exist. The three greatest examples of this bias approach to history are the actions of Hernán Cortes and the destruction of the Aztec civilization and Tenochticlan, Ramses the second and his rule of Egypt and conquest of the Middle East, and lastly Julius Caesar and his domination of both Rome and the Mediterranean Sea. These three men and their actions are prime examples of the writing of history only being done by those who victor and succeed. They went and defeated their enemies allowing no other perspective but their own to be written in history; whether it was the Aztecs, the Hittites or the German barbarians, no other mindset was heard other than the winners. From the beginning of civilization to end of civilization, only the winners of a conflict will write history and will determine what the future knows.

However, thousands still died every day at Treblinka, a concentration camp in Poland. “At the peak of operations, 15,000 men, women and children died there each day. Death on that scale took enormous labor, and towards the end, when the SS began to fear discovery, the mass graves were opened and the rotting bodies burned.” The Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners, were responsible of disposing bodies of other prisoners. The purpose of surviving till the end was to tell

“My other two sisters and 2 brothers went to Treblinka, and after that I never saw anybody from my family again. Treblinka was on of the Nazi Extermination camps with the second Highest Mortality after Auschwitz. Most of the jews from Warsaw were put there” (Radasky). On may 1, 1943, he was shot. The bullet went through the muscle and didn’t hit the bone so he didn’t have to lose a limb. Then after that he was taken to the Umschlagplatz, which had to many people so he was split up and put on a train to Majdanek concentration camp which was another death camp.

The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.

Is history always the way it has been told, or are there multiple truths that meet in one point and intersect? Presentism is what modern historians do to the past. The way in which presentism reveals and formats information about history is simplified and modified. This, for the most part, is not the exact way these events took place. Important parts and concepts are changed in order to fit into modern views and interpretation. Many historians are accepting of either the victim's or perpetrator's side. Sometimes picking one particular side may skew the hard facts of the situation or event. Failure of telling the accurate past can lead

The resistance of the Holocaust has claimed worldwide fame at a certain point in history, but the evidence that the evil-doers themselves left crush everything that verifies the fantasy of the Holocaust. For an example, in Poland, the total Jewish population of over thirty-three hundred thousand suddenly plummeted to three hundred thousand. Ten percent of the population survived the Holocaust in Poland. Almost every country that the Nazis have conquered has the same percent of survival as Poland. In Elie Wiesel Wiesel’s memoir Night, the activities in the concentration camps, the suffering of Jews, and the disbelief of the inhumane actions of the Nazis result in making people resist the truth.

Not all is known and the facts passed down may not reveal the whole truth. History is biased and can easily be manipulated by those with more power, and it is a modern historian’s job to weed through the commonly accepted information, and try to find the truth. If the truth is not found, then they present alternative theories to broaden the world’s knowledge on the possible course of events in the

Recorded history is nothing but the belief or bias of the man who wrote it. Often when discussing history, people us the popular phrase, “the winner writes the history books” or something along the lines. But nevertheless, the phrase does hold true. All history that is written is biased, but it is up to the reader to find the truth in within history. No matter what history is written, there will always be a different perspective, a different society, and a different perception of what is truly going on. History does not tell us the absolute truth, but it gives us a morphed version of the truth that we, as readers, must interpret to find the truth.

How would it feel to be a Jew forced into labor to help function mass killings of your own people? Samuel Willenberg is a survivor of the Treblinka labor camps. In 1942, as he was going through the clothes of those who lost their lives in the gas chambers, he pulled out a small coat and a blue skirt. He realized that the two articles of clothing belonged to his two little sisters. Willenberg fell to the floor in pain and misery realizing that he would never see his sisters again. Treblinka is one of the most important camps because about 850,000 Jews were treated and killed gruesomely like animals because Nazis thought of them as an inferior race. This research paper is about how Treblinka was a forced-labor camp, a killing center, the setting

However, thousands still died every day at Treblinka, a concentration camp in Poland. “At the peak of operations, 15,000 men, women and children died there each day. Death on that scale took enormous labor, and towards the end, when the SS began to fear discovery, the mass graves were opened and the rotting bodies burned.” The Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners, were responsible of disposing bodies of other prisoners. The purpose of surviving till the end was to tell the horrific stories of the Warsaw Ghetto. Such as the filthy living conditions. “In Nazi camps especially,

filled with no joy, but the worries of the thousands of families that were to face the depths of

“Before, they killed us with hatred and without method; today they are exterminating us without hatred but with method, and this is serious. It is no longer men we are up against, it is machines (Treblinka).” Treblika was designed as a Nazi extermination camp occupied in Poland. The camp was consisted of two separate units; Treblinka I was a forced-labor camp, and the second camp, Treblinka II, was an extermination camp. It was operated between 1941 to 1944 and approximately 850,000 men, women and children were murdered, including more than 800,000 Jews. (Niss) However, under the Nazis’ dreadful torture, some Jews gathered together to plan for the revolt.

With the majority of my family living in Poland, I get the chance to visit them every two years or so in the summer. My mother is from outside of Krakow, my dad from Warszawa and my stepdad from Bialystok- all historical places by the Holocaust. Three years ago when I was in Poland, I had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz in Oswiecim which was about an hour and a half away from where my mother's family lives. I remember the sunny but windy day in August. It was a beautiful day if it hadn’t felt so wrong, the sun isn't supposed to shine at Auschwitz in a place that holds so much darkness. But the sun continued to shine for me to realize that during the 4 years of hell at Auschwitz, there would have been many sunny days, just like that one. This place was the symbol of

What is History? This is the question posed by historian E.H. Carr in his study of historiography. Carr debates the ongoing argument which historians have challenged for years, on the possibility that history could be neutral. In his book he discusses the link between historical facts and the historians themselves. Carr argues that history cannot be objective or unbiased, as for it to become history, knowledge of the past has been processed by the historian through interpretation and evaluation. He argues that it is the necessary interpretations which mean personal biases whether intentional or not, define what we see as history. A main point of the chapter is that historians select the facts they think are significant which ultimately