How Did The Holocaust Change In The Book Thief

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 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.

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst mass murder in history. The Nazis did one of the most horrifying things you could think of, killing so many innocent people. Many different groups of people other than jews were also victims of this tragic event. Some of those other groups were: LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, slavs, and members of opposing political groups. These groups of people were ripped from their homes and put into concentration camps. The Nazis would either separate them from their family or they would keep them together and they would have to watch the Nazis torture their family and friends. During this very tragic point in history, more than six million Jewish lives were taken, in total there were over 12 million victims of the Holocaust. Not only did this affect the survivors it also affected families of the victims, survivors and anybody else that was connected through this tragedy. The Nazis, came to “power” in January 1933, which was during a time Germany was going through an economic hardship. They believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, were "inferior.” Adolf Hitler played a very big factor in everything that went down. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and was also known as the dictator of the Holocaust. The Nazis did have others that were Hitler’s “army” and they took orders from Hitler to do awful things to the victims and they were commonly known as

To begin, it is impossible to read Night without being assaulted with images Wiesel creates through his writing. One such image is created through

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their

Something that not many know about the Holocaust is there were many acts of resistance performed by the Jews being affected. For example, “On October 7, the...prisoners forced to handle the bodies of gas chamber victims...succeeded in blowing up one of the four crematoria at Aushwitz” (“Holocaust”). Another example is “On August 2,700 Jews torched parts of the Treblinka death camp” (“Holocaust”).

The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The Holocaust also known as Shoah, means a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis, who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also, many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews were like a scapegoat from the previous war lose so they can treat them inhumanely (“The Holocaust”). Millions of Jews were sent to the concentration camps around Europe. In there, they were tortured and killed. Many horrible things happened

Adolf Hitler used his words to influence the German people into following him into World War II and then the Holocaust. Because Hitler was so persuasive he made a whole entire country following him into a world full of death, evil, and unjust. In the novel, The Book Thief and in Nazi Germany, symbolism and influence is presented to show the horrors of war through the protagonist in The Book Thief having horrors of war through night terrors, the Nazis showing how much influence they have over people, and how both of these ideas reflect in real life today. In The Book Thief, Liesel and Max both show how the world they are surrounded by is hurting them through both their night terrors.

Over 80 years ago one of the worlds biggest tragedies occured. The Holocaust was a horrible event that will shape history forever. Over 11 million innocent people were killed due to one man's hatred. The deaths of these people should not be forgotten. This is why the Nazi war criminals should be prosecuted for their crimes.

In the Holocaust, countless Jewish families were torn apart by the German government’s stanch desire to remove “unwelcome” peoples from Europe. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party killed millions of Jews, prisoners of war, homosexuals, and anyone else that the Nazis despised.

According to an article titled” Why did the Holocaust Happened”, Nazi’s “had been denigrating and dehumanizing the Jews of Germany for nearly a decade before the holocaust began in earnest. This period of dehumanization likely had a dramatic effect on what people actually thought of the Jews. Many Germans considered the Jews to be a sub-race of humans, or barely human at all. This allowed them to feel little to no guilt when forcing them into labor camps and marching them to their deaths”. To add to that point, although there were a large portion of those who supported Hitler and the Holocaust, “The Nazi party was not actively advertising what it was actually doing to the Jews.

In a story written by a 16-year-old girl,” I’ll Go Fetch Her Tomorrow,” the narrator shares her personal experience as a survivor of the Holocaust. She describes her life experience and explains what was going on around her from her point of view. Since she was Jewish she, along with many other children, did not have much say in whether they were going in hiding or not. She was only 16 and was deported alone. She managed to escape and had to go from hiding place to hiding place to keep out of the Nazi’s harsh deportation or even worst avoid being sent to a concentration camp.

The Holocaust had a Greek meaning of “sacrifice by fire.” The event was initiated by the state, causing mistreatment of over six million Jews from 1933 to 1945. As we have seen, The Holocaust played a major role in today’s society. This event effected religion, politics, and three groups in particular. Although the Holocaust targeted the Jews, The Zionist Movement and The World, this event had a major aftermath on The Jews more than any other group.

While reading To Kill a Mockingbird I came to a section where Miss Gates was talking to her class about Hitler and what he was doing to the Jews. She stated, “They contribute to every society they live in, and most of all, they are a deeply religious people” (Lee 245). She is talking about the Jews in this quote and when she began talking about Hitler I immediately made a connection to The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak.

The holocaust was one of the biggest crimes against humanity that has occured throughout history. The holocaust was a genocide that happened in World War 2 killing an estimated 17 million people. The main goal behind the holocaust was for Nazi Germany, which was led by Adolf Hitler to exterminate all the jewish people. This traumatic event began in January of 1993 and didn’t end till May of 1945, this time frame was traumatizing for anyone who experienced it or heard of it. Adolf Hitler was a ultra nationalistic leader and took everything he did to the extreme. He found that the people of pure german descent were racially superior to all the other races especially those of jewish descent. If someone didn’t qualify to be within the superior race they abstained an excessive amount of abuse physically and mentally. Nazi Germany formed concentration camps where they would work people to death or exterminate