How Did Suffering Differ Throughout The Holocaust Based On Gender?

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

At the entrance to each death camp, there was a process of Selektion or selection. Pregnant women, small children, the sick or handicapped, and the elderly were immediately condemned to death. As horrific as it was, it didn’t surprise many that Hitler had the audacity to do these terrible things. The Holocaust was an act of genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany killed about two thirds of the population of Jews in Europe from 1941-1945 but the trouble started brewing much before that. Though there were only a small amount of survivors, very few alive to this day, there are many pieces of literature that help prove that this in fact happened. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust because, it gives different

There have been many atrocious acts that the world has had to endure, but there is not one that stands out as much as the Holocaust . Millions of Jews were used as scapegoats because of the declining economy. This all eventually led to the Germans trying to completely eradicate their race. Even though the Germans did kill 7 million Jews there were many survivors of the Holocaust who live to this day with profound effects in every facet of their life. The effects that we’re looking at are: the psychological abuse that the holocaust kids went through and how it affects them in them in their everyday life in the present, how the adult survivors transmit their trauma unto to their kids, how second generation holocaust are biologically different from the normal human, and how the Jews are starting to go back to their homeland to deal with their stress.

The Holocaust occurred in 1941 - 1942. This event was significant because it had a lasting impact on the world especially Germany, Poland and other european countries. This led to significant political changes such as the united nations. Hitler was the reason there was a mass extermination of 60,000 people. The Holocaust had devastating short term effects such as loss of money, homes, food, hygiene and most commonly death also the separation of families and the horrific mass destruction on human life. The long term effects effected the survivors mentally and physically after the holocaust.

It is also right to set the Nazi genocide as part of wilder destructive movements such as racial hatred and xenophobia. It is a relevant today as they were in the past. However, politicising the genocide is not only an insult to the memory of those killed in the Holocaust, it also brings disgrace, shame and dishonour to those trying to do it. Therefore, while there are some shrewd and sagacious leaders around who may exploit the Holocaust as a political prop for their political interest, in Germany, the Germans know that they are responsible for this crime against humanity and they are ashamed of their ancestors doing. Thus it definitely isn’t right and incredibly rude to constantly reinterpret The Holocaust to suit our own political needs as it have had been a very sad past for both the Jews and the Germans. The only people who emerge with full honour from this are the leaders of modern Germany, who accepted that their predecessors were the culprits, drew the necessary lessons and refused to veer from these conclusions since then. What remains unconditionally unacceptable is an enduring fashion to swiftly equate political, militant or historical acts with the brutal years of Nazi Germany as the rhetorical strategy of comparing whoever or whatever you dislike to Hitler and any kind of oppression you

There were about 500,000 living survivors of the Holocaust in 2014. It is vital for students to be taught about the Holocaust in school. The article, "combating" shows that the students need to be aware that the event did in fact happen. The article "Genocide" shows students what happens when hate against one group or culture becomes too much. Elie Wiesel's Night shows students an eyewitness account of how much violence, brutality, and abuse to the prisoners had to go through in the Holocaust. Though some people are against the subject of the Holocaust because it is too graphic or mature for the students, it is important that students learn from a trusted adult instead of letting other students try to teach it to themselves. The students should learn about the subject of the Holocaust in school because it teaches the importance of equality, about the events occurrence, and teaching about the dangers of discrimination and abuse.

The second section of Beverly Chalmers book, Birth, Sex and Abuse, deals with sexuality among Germans and sexual abuse among Jewish women. Chalmers provides interesting information on how the Nazi’s banned homosexuality, birth control, and feminist organizations (Ibid 145). Chalmers outlines that the goals of the Nazi party by repressing sexuality like homosexuals and feminist movements was to promote pronatalist policies like reproduction so women could bear more children for the superior Aryan race. Chalmers’ extensive study of brothels in concentration camps interested me because I did not realize the SS allowed prostitution inside concentration camps and the majority of these women were Germans because Jewish women were not allowed to be prostitutes due to the Rassenschande laws. Chalmers’ study of German women in brothels broadens the traditional study of the Holocaust because rather than always focusing on non-German women’s experiences it allows people that study the Holocaust to examine how German women were affected by the Holocaust in

During the Holocaust many Jews were hidden in fear. Force to live together and make a living. There was no discrimination of age of Jews. Jews old and young alike were persecuted. Like the three teens named Margot Frank, Anne Frank, and Peter Van Daan. These teens have

     The world that people lived in during the Holocaust is described by the personal experiences of the oppressed throughout the story Jack and Rochelle, written by Jack and Rochelle Sutin, and the memoir by Alexander Donat titled The Holocaust Kingdom. The horrifying mindset of the oppressors, particularly the Nazi`s, is illustrated in both books. The vicious and relentless emotional, physical, and psychological abuse the Nazi`s targeted at their victims is depicted in detail. The unspeakable cruelty received by the Jews dramatically altered their state of mind and how they lived their lives. The emotions of despair, distress, depression, hopelessness, helplessness felt by the Jews

According to the Preface to the Study of Women and the Holocaust, "every Jew, regardless of gender, was equally a victim in the Holocaust" (Ringelheim 17). Women, men and children were equally threatening to the Nazis. Children were seen as "the next generation of Jews" and, therefore, would have to be banned too. "Jewish women and men experienced unrelieved suffering during the

For the past 300 years, the world’s society has displayed lots of unbelievable human cruelty. For example, slavery in the 18th and 19th century, African Americans were forced into harsh work labor because of their skin color. Then in the 20th century, a determined dictator, Adolf Hitler, murdered and tortured eleven million lives. This horrifying event was called the Holocaust, it occurred in 1933 but ended in 1945. Adolf Hitler was angered about the result of World War 1, so he blamed Jewish people, the disabled, and other groups. During the holocaust, the eleven million lives were forced into harsh work labors or was put into gas chambers and was killed instantly. People described the Holocaust as inhumane act, and the people that survived it, could really say it was a scarring memory.

The Holocaust was a tragic event that after 83 years many people still remember. The Holocaust is the biggest genocide in human history. It is important to learn about the Holocaust because it helps citizens foster a caring and responsible society. It helps us study the behavior of the part-takers so that a genocide of any kind will never happen. It also helps us see how our decisions have an effect on us and others.

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million people of innocent Jewish decent by the Nazi government. The Holocaust was a very tragic time in history due to the idealism that people were taken from their surroundings, persecuted and murdered due to the belief that German Nazi’s were superior to Jews. During the Holocaust, many people suffered both physically and mentally. Tragic events in people’s lives cause a change in their outlook on the world and their future. Due to the tragic events that had taken place being deceased in their lives, survivors often felt that death was a better option than freedom.

The Holocaust was a horrible time period where Nazi’s attempted a genocide of Jewish people, gypsies and others they deemed had a disability. The victims would be sent to concentration camps, such as Auschwitz. The point of views the authors used can advance their purpose. If authors use objective point of view, they give only facts about the topic and does not give any opinions or bias. Unlike objective, subjective point of views helps form your opinion by giving the author’s experience and bias. The article “Auschwitz,” the film One Day at Auschwitz, and the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel feature information and experiences during the time the Holocaust took place.

The Holocaust was more than just Jewish citizens being taken to labor/extermination camps to be killed or to work. There were many non-Jewish victims during this time who were thought of as different or "evil". For example, Jehovah's witnesses, Roma gypsies, and Homosexuals. I would like to discuss some epiphanies I experienced during the reading of this memoir, although there are not many. Going back to the point I made about the Holocaust not only victimizing