How Does Distant Journey Tell The Emotion And Horror Of The Holocaust?

     Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

The holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews under the Nazi regime in a genocide. The word ‘Holocaust’ originated from a Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Nazis stood by the unwavering belief that the Germans were racially superior and the Jews are being deemed as being inferior. During the era of the Holocaust, German chancellor at the time, Adolf Hitler hated the Jews as they dominated Germany’s many of Germany’s departmental stores, from small shops to big retail stores. Hitler also had an unpleasant experience with a Jew when he was younger, thus contributing to his hatred to Jews. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other “sub-servient groups” like the Gypsies, the

As Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel once said, “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,” that is why we are called to remember. Many movies, novels, and story representations of the Holocaust have been created in order to spread the memory of the past. An important part of remembering is learning, and therefore not repeating the same mistakes once again. Movies may find it difficult to represent the Holocaust accurately, while also giving it meaning and artistic expression. The writer, Edwin de Vries, and the director, Jeroen Krabbé, strive to represent the legacies of the Holocaust and Jewish culture in the film, Left Luggage (1998), based on a novel by Carl Friedman through a portrayal of the daily lives of Holocaust survivors and their children in late 1960s Antwerp, their direct confrontations with their memories of the Holocaust, and character development. The film shows us many examples of the legacy of the Holocaust as it is passed through the children of survivors, and how it continues to affect their daily lives. The audience understands the intentions through depictions of muteness and the necessity to remember.

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

To Kill a Mockingbird is a witty and well-written account of the realities of a “tired old town” (4) where there was “nothing to buy and nothing to buy it with” (4). Purposefully, it comes across not merely an innocently portrayed, yet eye-opening, story of a young girl start to grasp the inequalities of her society. Rather, it is accompanied by recollection of the unfortunate pillars of hate of the places Harper Lee matured in. We now perceive this account as an ‘archaic” and “ancient” recount of some historically frowned upon mindsets in an enthralling atmosphere upon which we pin historical quantities of prejudice, racism and most of all, bigotry. The unfortunate reality is that we look at history in a vacuum and ignore the occurrences of our own times. So although we, like Scout’s teachers teaching about the horrible acts of the Holocaust while being outspokenly racist, are able to analyze social inequalities in other places in time or the world yet refuse to open our eyes to the same prejudice, racism and bigotry today. To instance, when reading To Kill a Mockingbird , we often frown upon citizens for judging “folks” based on their family name and race, although, everyday, some member of our current society, such as police officers and employers, do the same thing and no one bats an eye. Alternatively, the issue which we definitely desperately desire to avoid, racism, is explicitly tackled in To Kill a Mockingbird to the point of viral awareness of the problem in

To me the holocaust was a terrifying and horrible. People were dying because of not getting enough food and the diseases that were being spreaded throughout the camp were all the people were. They were not treated and not feed well enough to live. Even if they did the suddenst thing they could possibly be shot of hurt by a guard. According to the website http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers. The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word

Topic Sentence: Many of the characters had no other option than to escape the Nazis, unless they wanted to be killed or forced to support an evil cause. The characters resist and defy the Nazi regime and its goal by using the acts of hiding, silence, and avoidance to escape.

The Holocaust was a very traumatic event in history. Every year in school from about middle school onward students learn specifically about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party’s cruel treatment of the Jewish culture and people during World War II. The same general knowledge is given to us from middle school up until the ending our high school history careers. We are taught to believe that Adolf Hitler was a corrupt man, who sought control of Germany in the 1930’s. Even though we are given background information on this event, and there are things being told to us, no one knows what actually occurred during this time, except those who lived through it. In the book Night published by Elie Wiesel, he explains the things that happened to his family and the people in his community named Sighet before, during, and after the Holocaust. There is more than what meets the eye to this occurrence. No one sees the bigger picture when it comes to this event because of the fact that such a tragedy occurred in the first place. Although the Holocaust was a very unfortunate event, the Holocaust did benefit the United States in a plethora of different ways. Without the Holocaust, World War II would have never happened, and World War II brought countless positives attributes to America. A myriad of things came out of World War II. For example, women earned the right to attain jobs because of the war. Also, America became a global power due to the fact that the Allies (United States, Britain,

The Holocaust ravaged the Jewish nation when it took place. It was a catastrophic violation of the Jews’ rights, and the mass murderings that happened then have carried over to the present to affect the State of Israel. The studies of the State of Israel and the Holocaust directly tie together because the history of the Jewish people connects with their current conflicts, they are sorely misunderstood by the world, and because of the Holocaust, Israel has needed to heavily fortify their security against international threats.

The atrocities of the Holocaust placed the German Jewish population in a quagmire of antisemitic persecution, but it also spread beyond Germany to affect Jews throughout Europe. Poland was such a country. The first nation invaded by Nazi Germany and the last to be liberated, the population of Polish Jews was nearly eradicated. How were the Nazis able to accomplish such a feat in a nation where antisemitism had not been as prevalent? Aside from forcibly introducing antisemitic policy into Poland, the Nazis relied on fear and self-interest to accomplish their goals. For the average Polish Catholic in 1943, a decision had to be made on where they stood regarding the “Jewish problem”. Should they sit idly by and do nothing, or perhaps even assist in the capture of the Jews? Or maybe they could risk everything by hiding and otherwise aiding the Polish Jews. If I were such a Polish Catholic citizen living in 1943 and the opportunity arose to help a Polish Jew, my conscience would prevent me from doing any less.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Before during and after the holocaust all the choices he made reflected all his hopes and dreams. All his hopes and dreams happened after all the fear he went through. He becomes stronger as a person. He fights for his life through the holocaust. He learns who he really is by going through the

Moreover, there were personal changes in their lives, and they had the disruption in their behavior and reasoning. Many of the survivors expressed agitation and anxiety. They feared to be alone and were chronically apprehensive. These psychological effects did not end here, some of them ended up representing the post-traumatic disease. A series of the researcher has described survivors based on their physiological effects. The study by Braga, Mello, and Fiks, (134), outlines the five psychological themes in survivors. He states the first one to be; death imprint, the second one being death guilt, psychic numbing, sensitivity and the last being the survivors struggle for meaning. From the above factual information were realize that the survivors were happy to have survived but as a result of the mental and psychological problems, their life continued to worsen. Holocaust was the very horrifying situation that caused a lot of destruction of life and families.

1. Dr. Micheal Berenbaum, in his quote, paints a real picture of what was going on during that time. The film, Rails of the Holocaust, is based on the journey of the railroads that sit over the Stockton Holocaust Center entrance. Dr. Berenbaum explains in his quote that the rails are import to the Nazi enterprise because they allowed them to ship Jews to different concentration camps from all corners of Europe. One of the main reasons the rail systems were important for the Nazis is because they no longer had to send killers to the Jews instead they sent the Jews to the Nazis.

From the two accounts in question we can see that the camps were a horrific experience for many Jews during the holocaust. There are a number of differences between these experiences and the main contributor to the differences in these accounts is possibly location. For example, the Levi account occurred in the Auschwitz camp and the Donat account is focused on Treblinka and within these camps there was a difference in the daily operations and how hierarchies were formed and maintained . In Auschwitz especially, people arriving for the first time and were not killed straightaway were, placed at the bottom of this internal “hierarchy” and treated poorly, not just by the guards, which was expected, but by fellow captives as well . By looking

Schindler’s List offers a mere glimpse into the horrors of the Holocaust, but even these slivers of history convey to us just how evil and terrifying Nazi Germany was during World War II. A scene that immediately stuck in my mind was when the Jews were being relocated to the ghetto, and Nazi soldiers were shooting anyone they pleased. These graphic scenes were shot uncensored, with point blank killings being filmed at point blank range, showing the murders in explicit detail which made it hard to watch. However, it was also necessary to watch, as we need to see what really happened to better understand the unspeakable acts carried out. This allowed us to see the Holocaust as a bystander, unable to do anything to intervene. Another style utilized by Spielberg was fast cuts and shakiness, which gave a sense of chaos and terror from the Jews’ point of view.