Holocaust II : The Holocaust And The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a repulsive time where many Jews suffered miserably from Hitler’s concentration camps and millions died. I researched this topic because I had learned about the Holocaust a little bit over the years, but I wanted to focus primarily on the United States and if Roosevelt helped the Jews who were suffering or if he only focused on the needs of his own country. Before I started my research, I knew a basic amount of information about the Holocaust itself and what Hitler had done to the Jews, but I knew nothing about what effect FDR had on the prosecution of Jews. I chose this topic mainly because I found it interesting to learn about and I knew I would enjoy reading about the Holocaust but another reason why I chose to research this topic is because I am Jewish. My great grandma had experienced the great depression and had lived during that heartbreaking time period. I wanted to learn more about my history and what it was like to be a Jew back in the 1930-1940’s. It is hard to imagine the hatred some people had for Jews and how awful they treated them. Learning about the Holocaust made me thankful for what I have because millions of survivors were scarred for the rest of their lives and experiencing the pain and torture European Jews underwent is unimaginable. Living in America, I wanted to know if we had helped. I wanted to know if our country cared about what was happening in Germany and if they put in a lot of effort to stop Hitler from his horrible actions.

1945. A single date but an entire compendium of significant events in the course of our world’s history. A mere year, with so much meaning: the end to the second worldwide outbreak of horror and hatred. Additionally, the long belated end to the Holocaust, essentially the mass murder of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army in secret work and killing prisons termed concentration camps. Unknown to some, but known by most which lead us to ask why did the world stay silent? Perhaps the concept was too unbelievable for many to imagine, or maybe the world truly was oblivious for some time, although the most likely guess would be fear. Fear that they would be too persecuted and snatched away from the only life they have ever known to the concentration camps where they would then be separated from their family, next forced to labor and work and starve, and finally die a terrible death as Ellie was, during the World War 2 period. Although, Ellie did not die and was one of the luckiest men in the world to survive this atrocity. Alone and thoroughly deranged, shortly after being liberated by the Americans, he is coerced (I believe out of fear) by an utter stranger with a facade of an angel. Basically, he is convinced to travel to Palestine and join the terrorists and murderers who are battling to create Israel, where Ellie becomes an important factor in these movements. Throughout Night and Dawn, a consistent emotion is fear, which is known to cause people to change, including Ellie. I believe that Ellie has become detached from his humanity, has had his religious and moral beliefs distorted, but has retained his outlook on the future between his experiences in Night and Dawn.

Germany’s hatred for the Jewish race was the main foundation for the occurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler hated the Jewish people. A reason for this was the loss of his Mother. His Mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and at a young age received treatment advised by her Jewish Doctor Eduard Bloch. She than died from the treatment in 1907 at the age of 47 while Hitler was only 18 years old. He believed that her doctor had poisoned her and was the reason for her death; therefore, he would never forgive him. Another was when Hitler unsuccessfully attempted to set himself up as an artist in Vienna. In 1906, he decided to explore Vienna and attended opera shows and many architectural galleries, this is when he fell in love with art and decided to pursue his dream as an artist. He decided to choose the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and took part in a two-day entrance exam feeling confident and self-assured. But afterwards, received his results as unsatisfactory and not admitted and was unfortunately told by a Jew that his drawings lacked the talent for artistic painting. Therefore, Hitler took a disliking to the Jewish people and became a great orator and he expressed and shared his perspectives on Germany and the Jews. Hitler also believed that Jews were the blame for Germany’s defeat in the Great War and that Jewish businessmen were plotting to take control of the world. He also believed that the Jews were an inferior race and should not be allowed to mix with the superior Aryan

The Holocaust was a horrendous period of time that will never be forgotten. The tragedy took place in Europe during World War II, though continues to be commemorated today. Textbooks, novels, and other media shed light on the Holocaust everyday to honor the six million lives that were lost. Under the order of Adolf Hitler, Jews were persecuted and murdered for their beliefs. People were pulled from their homes and moved into concentration camps, where they suffered to the point of death. Few managed to survive the nightmare and live to tell their story. Written works like Night by Elie Wiesel, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne describe the reality faced by Jews that some refuse to believe occurred. These famous publications have enlightened readers all over the world about the Holocaust and what its name entails.

In 1896 Theodor Herzl, a Hungarian-born Jew, penned a pamphlet entitled “The Jewish State,” in which he fathered a new ideology: Zionism. The Zionist ideology states that the Jews will continue to be persecuted unless a Jewish nation is established in the land of Palestine. Herzl’s analysis of the continuity of Jewish persecution eerily foreshadowed the Holocaust—the historic Nazi genocide of Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities that occurred four decades after “The Jewish State” was published. But even in the Holocaust’s immediate aftermath, the anti-Semitic atmosphere remained insufferable to many Jewish survivors. Intellectuals have argued that Zionists in the postwar period, paradoxically, did not have Holocaust survivors’ best interests in mind, instead treating them as pieces to their own imperialist puzzle. However, the state of anti-Semitism in postwar Europe was dire, and warranted Zionist intervention. Jews were maltreated in Displaced Persons (DP) camps reminiscent of, although not the same as, Nazi death camps. Herzl’s insight seemed to be right: Jews were liberated by the Allies just to again be dehumanized. Thus, the Zionist project in the wake of the Holocaust was of a particular mission, both urgent and emotionally charged: to bring Diaspora Jews to safety in the Jewish homeland. Objectors to this mission, however, overlook the severity and longevity of Diaspora anti-Semitism, which clouds their perception of postwar Zionism. The postwar Zionist movement,

One of the biggest and most tragic genocides or mass murder known to man is the Holocaust. Many know about the horrible struggles the Jews went through from the Nazis in Germany but some wonder could it have been stopped? Could hopeless lives have had a chance of being saved? Or would have bombing the train tracks have caused even more damage? The Final Solution was a plan stemming from anti semitic thoughts of a dictator who believed the Jews ruined Germany and needed revenge. Jews who suffered for their lives in which they knew it was coming to the end. Many know the horrific leader Adolf Hitler but not the reasons behind what he did and who he really was.

Could one ever imagine a sadistic place where a gargantuan amount of people are being tortured and murdered for doing nothing bad at all? Well that happened more than 70 years ago in a nefarious event called the Holocaust, which is similar to some events occurring today. People are arguing if an event emulating the Holocaust happened in modern society, could it again be ignored. When analyzing the evidence, an event like the Holocaust could happen again, but will definitely not be ignored for the following reasons, social media can spread information quickly, people are educated about horrible past events, and governments are more against genocide and mass atrocities.

Crimes against humanity are a concerns everyone. Even if they are not happening directly in your own country, they affect you because you have the power to stop and help them through their crisis. Nations should act on their own accord with regarding crimes against humanity taking place. If other countries take too long debating on what they should intervene regarding the crime against humanity, many more lives are lost and rights are violated. This is extremely apparent in the Holocaust, the genocide in Darfur and the genocide in Rwanda.

Treblinka, 1941 – one of the events in history during the Holocaust that will never be forgotten by the Jews. It is one of those moments where Jews come together in the hardest of times to create, in a sense, peace amongst themselves. Not only did the Holocaust affect the Jews physically and mentally at the time, but it also greatly impacted their lives after the horror. Some victims of the Holocaust, the worst atrocity committed in humankind’s history, find it extremely difficult to open up and talk about their past because they don’t want to remember any part of it. However, most survivors choose to share their stories with the younger generation in order to pass them onto future ones. Despite the torture and cruelty that the survivors endured by the Nazis, they were able to maintain a positive outlook on life.

The resentment and instability in Germany after the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War 1 fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler. His invasion of Poland in 1939 pushed Britain and France to declare war on Germany. However, for those of Jewish decent, war and suffering had begun years earlier. The Holocaust was a horrific and disturbing act of genocide against the Jews, scarring the hearts and minds of the for years to come.

Amongst the myriad of atrocities committed by humans in history, it is safe to say that the Holocaust is among the most barbaric. Genocide, in itself, is impossible to comprehend, however, delving into the world of research helps us understand it better. It is arguable that are many different reasons behind the Holocaust, and the Nazi’s rise to power, but it is evident that the most prominent cause can be seen to be a mixture of Hitler’s anger, the country’s general anti-semitism, and the need to conform, leading to an unstable psychological balance.

In a world where humans thrive and try to grow in peace and prosperity, the Holocaust begins. Hitler's genocide is beyond any human’s limitations and the worst genocide in human history. As the human race progresses, we must understand that the purpose of Hitler's genocide was not the mass murder of millions of people, but the purpose of something much more complex: a new creation of the perfect race. In Hitler’s eyes, this usually meant blonde hair, blue eyes, and a Caucasian skin tone. Fast forwarding to 1954, the Civil Rights movement has begun to take place. African Americans are provided little to no rights and it's all because of their skin tone. How is this any different to the people Hitler executed for being racially “incorrect” in his eyes? We may have not had concentration camps, barbed wire ghettos, or mass genocide, but people have been killed and rights have been taken away. It wasn't until cases like Brown versus Board of Education and Plessy versus Ferguson, that things were beginning to change history which set the framework for our current society.

“The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!” – Adolf Hitler, infamous German Nazi dictator

Whether the Holocaust could have been avoided remains a topic of debate for many people today, the two sides have evidence as to why both their accusations could be correct, but there are some very reasonable and likely ways the Holocaust could of never happened. There are many reasons as to how the Holocaust and WWII together could've been prevented by the actions of the people in charge before Hitler started to slowly gain more and more power over Germany. Negligence of the German government as well as many surrounding countries in Europe are highly to blame for the reason of WWII and the Holocaust. Winston Churchill himself called WWII “the unnecessary war” because of the many ways it could have been obviated, but it still ended up happening leaving Europe in a complete mess afterwards. Many topics of debate had sparked up whether it could've been prevented and it was definitely a tricky subject to analyze, but many moves exist in this war that had enough flaws to acknowledge the prevention of this war. When WWII is taught at schools, teachers usually talk about their theories of how the holocaust could have ended and many would also often ask their student their own thoughts and opinions as how WWII could've been prevented as is a popular subject because there are many holes in the whole situation which is why it was often called an unnecessary and counterproductive war that had many ways of being blocked which is why it was such a great misfortune as well as the mass

The Holocaust. This word brings terror and sadness to me whenever heard. Why had they even believed that conflict would solve world problems? Did they think they were better than everyone else? Are they just mentally ill, but at the same time, powerful? All these questions have answers, but these words won’t bring back the lives lost, the sadness taken in by people’s souls, or even the damage it has done to some people and not only physical. When tend to think of only the soldiers on remembrance day, but what about all the people that suffered all the difficult and horrible years with extremely little food and no health care. Very little survived these harsh and cruel situations, but even the ones with enough luck to live, now have cautious lives and the majority have severe trust issues. Is ruining individual’s lives something necessary to lead to the happiness of others? Death is not required for peace to exist.