Holocaust : A Diabolical Plan

First, as we can see in the film The Pianist is based on an autobiography and tells the story of a man who, despite all the persecutions of the Jews, managed to save himself. Spzilman, a pianist, lived with his family until the Holocaust occurred. His family and neighbors were forced to leave their homes to go to a "ghetto," a Jewish-only neighborhood. As we can see

“The Pianist” by Wladyslaw Spilman is a extraordianry story about a man’s survival in the holocaust in Warsaw, Poland. The book explains how Szpilman survives the holocaust in Poland by hiding, escaping, and with luck. Szpilman is important to society because he explains the following topics in his perspective for them not to happen again, religious discrimination, human rights, and punishment in crimes involving genocide. Many of the issues raised by the holocaust continue to have an impact on the world today.

The Holocaust was the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place in Europe, mainly Germany (“Introduction” par 3). Mainly Jewish and Nazi people were involved in the Holocaust, as well as some Gypsies (“Introduction” par 2, 3). The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors.

In the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupy Hungary. Not long afterward, a series of increasingly repressive measures are passed, and the Jews of Eliezer’s town are forced into small ghettos within Sighet. Soon they are herded onto cattle cars, and a nightmarish journey ensues. After days and nights crammed into the car, exhausted and near starvation, the passengers arrive at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the aloof foreigner Moishe the Beadle gets deported from the town Sighet with other foreign Jews. After escaping, Moishe recalls the horrific scene where the Jews were taken into the forest and, “Without passion or haste, [the Gestapo] shot their prisoners… Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). During the Holocaust, the Nazi belief that Jews were of an inferior and evil race brought forth little discrepancy on their liquidation and abuse. Anne Marie Hacht puts this notion into a broader context in “Oppression and Genocide” from Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace, pointing out that, “Analysis of literary works… reveals a common denominator of cause: governmental abuse of power that results in the manipulation or attempted extermination of a political or racial minority.” Hacht’s analysis especially applies to the case of Moishe, who witnessed first-hand the massacre of the Jewish minority. The way in which the Gestapo conducted these executions shows just how “normal” acts of genocide and dehumanization were. Ultimately, the elimination and degradation of certain racial, religious, or social subdivisions of society was a common method of

The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, depicts many inhuman acts towards the Jews during the Holocaust. One main legacy of the memoir Night is the sheer scale of genocide of one group of people towards another group, in this case, it is the German’s attempt to annihilate the Jewish population. These concentration camps work day and night trying to accomplish Hitler’s zealeos intent to wipe out the entire European Jewish population by manipulating many execution and punishments methods varying from gas chambers to crematoriums. Through showing the diabolical behaviors of the Germans towards the Jews, the theme of inhumanity is assimilated into the memoir Night in order to accentuate on how dark the holocaust was while creating affinity of

Adolf screamed, "If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job. As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected, for example, in Munich on the Marienplatz-as many of them as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink. They will stay hanging as long as hygienically possible. As soon as they are untied, then the next group will follow and that will continue until the last Jew in Munich is exterminated. Exactly the same procedure will be followed in other cities until Germany is cleansed of the last Jew!"

The Holocaust revealed the extreme evil in human nature on both a grand and small scale. Hitler, a strong supporter of antisemitism, had an agenda to create a dominant Aryan race and would stop at nothing to diminish the Jewish population. This meant forcing innocent Jewish people into death and labor camps, where conditions were brutal and treatment was atrociously inhumane. Overtime, this grand scale oppression sparked anger and violence within the victims. Instead of supporting one another in times of trouble, they began to commit senseless acts of violence towards one another in response to the cruelty they faced. Survival became their highest value, at any cost. Elie Wiesel witnesses this first hand on many accounts and spends his life striving to educate the world about the horrors of the Holocaust. In his Holocaust memoir, Night, he uses the motifs: night, silence, and flames, to develop the idea that evil is part of human nature.

Lastly, the scenes portraying the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto were powerful. An emotional response was provoked as I watched the Jews being stripped of their belongings and loaded on to the cattle trains. It was heartbreaking to watch as Jan Zabinski once again attempted to save the doctor, this time from entering the train which would take him to his death. Yet, the doctor nonchalantly ignored the escape offer and spoke loudly of taking a vacation with the children. He loudly spoke of “going to Rome to see a magician show”, only to keep the children calm while being loaded onto the train. The doctor lied with good intention so that he could prevent the children from becoming frightened and chaotic. Although he had the opportunity to escape, he never left the children. He calmly entered the train knowing death was near, but he remained calm to keep the children calm. It reminded me of the short film, The Ambulance, we watched during the course. The child caregiver watched as Nazi soldiers readied the ambulance for their death, yet he kept

The Pianist is a movie that shows the life of one man, Wladyslaw Szpilman who was a popular Jewish Pole radio station pianist. In the World War II which is a background of the movie, How Szpilman suffered and how he survived are presented in the movie. While the movie portrays Szpilman’s life, it also shows how the Jewish people are dehumanized by Nazi during the war. The director, Roman Polanski, successfully uses camera angle, lighting and plot structure, and characterization to present the theme of dehumanization.

During the start of the Holocaust, Sighet Jews failed to believe that Nazi terrorism existed and would affect them. The Sighet Jews had been warned many times by Moishe the Beadle, a street beggar who Elie would see at the synagogue and converse with. Moishe taught Elie about Jewish Mysticism which Elie’s father did not believe he was ready to learn about. Wiesel’s father says “You are too young for that. The Maimonides tell us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of Mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend.” Though Elie’s father decided to also mention “There are no Kabbalists in Sighet.”(Wiesel 4) However, Moishe’s lessons to Elie would be taken away as he was classified as a foreign Jew and was forced by the Hungary Police as well as many others to be taken to the Galician Forest.

The story takes place in New York City during the 1960’s, a city that epitomizes the disgust of the world, through Artur Sammler’s eyes, in the form of nihilism, sexual maladjustment, and barbarous activities. Unfortunately for Mr. Sammler, the Holocaust is an all to close reminder about the negative aspects of the world that it has to offer, and this indicator is a constant reminder that there is much evil in the world and not much can be done to stop it. It is here in this case that the memory of the cruel experiences that many Jews suffered during the war that has morphed Mr. Sammler’s view of it, to a more profoundly negative view.

During the Nazi reign of terror tragedy struck across the eastern world. Millions of innocent lives were destroyed and many of them were Jews. To the German empire the Jews were the enemies and the cause of the downfall of their homeland. To the Jews, they were innocent victims of the Nazi horror, as well as their scapegoat. The two works, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender, show the different perspectives during World War II, but The Cage provides better information about this heartbreaking event in history through the details and point of view included within this work.

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Known as one of the most horrific events in history, World War II (WW2) caused tremendous adversity and suffering amongst the lives of people across the globe. However, what is most concerning about the war, was what happened behind closed doors, specifically within Germany. The Holocaust is still considered one the worst ethnic cleansing attacks in the world. Although there is an endless amount of research and hard evidence of the Holocaust occurring, certain groups of individuals strongly reject it. Known as “Holocaust Denial”, this conspiracy theory has always been personally intriguing due to several reasons and will be analyzed more thoroughly.