In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which is still used today to save lives and cure people. He is similar to Carl Lutz because they both did something amazing, but Lutz even risked his life to save all the people he could. Carl Lutz has sacrificed his life for others, risked his job and family for others, and set an example for all other people after him for what he needs to be done for those in danger. Carl Lutz did a lot for other people, but risking his life may have been the greatest thing that he did for them. Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat tasked with getting as many people out of Hungaria as possible. By the time he started his job, the Hungarians had begun to deport Jews to extermination camps. He was able to get the …show more content…
What Lutz sacrificed is being truly unselfish, and he should receive more credit for all that he did. As previously mentioned, the Germans would have had Lutz executed if they found all that he did, which some of it being technically illegal, also disregarding the original role that his job held. If the Germans did find out about Lutz, they wouldn’t have just stopped with him, even before they executed him or sent him to a concentration camp, they would’ve gone and executed his family. They would have executed his daughter and wife, before Lutz, because they would want to show Lutz that what he did was not acceptable at all. They would also want him to suffer and see his own family executed before his very eyes, so that he would truly, get the point passed across to him. If he didn’t get caught by the Germans though, and caught by his own Swedish government instead at the time of his law breaking, he would’ve fired quickly and disregarded by his country and government. He was given the job to get as many people out of Hungaria as he could, legally. It’s not that he wasn’t doing his job to the best of his ability, but the way that he fulfilled his requirements. The government wouldn’t be angry at him for all the extra people he saved, but going outside of their government’s law but also international law. If they had kept him as a diplomat if other governments found out
Then the german soldiers came to their town and were forced to leave in the “ghetto”. The ghetto is in Krakow and it forces the Jews to live in certain areas and have a curfew. Yanek lived in a apartment with his family, uncles and cousins. They didn’t like how crowded it was so they moved to a Pigeon coop on the roof of their apartment. When Yanek was walking home he saw his parents on a truck getting sent to a concentration camp. Two few weeks later Yanek was captured and was sent to the concentration camp called Plaszow, he was there from 1942-1943. While at Plaszow he built barracks. After building Barracks he was sent to the Krakow ghetto to clean out the apartments and search for anything valuable in them. While at roll call one day Yanek and 49 other jews were selected to go work at the Wieliczka salt mine. Not much happened here except he mined salt. He was there from 1943- 1944. After he worked in the mine for awhile he was sent to Trzebinia. All day he was supposed to move rocks. After a while of working in the Quarry he was sent off to Birkenau. When he arrived at Birkenau he saw these chimneys that had smoke coming out of them which had smelled terrible. “Black Chimneys stood up in silhouette against the glowing sky, shooting flames from their tops, and the smell of burning flesh filled the air.” (pg 124). Yanek thought he was going to be gassed here but it was actually just a
He had been to many labor camps for five years and seven months. If he had stayed at a labor camp called Stalag VIII, he would’ve starved to death like the Russian POWs did. He was forced to work on the Autobahn near Krems, Austria. The Jews were given the most dirtiest and the most dangerous jobs. Their lives were threatened, they were beaten, and they were always hungry.
“The first Jewish bill was passed in May 1938. It was set a 20% limit for Jews in certain professions and declared that it was a “national duty” for Hungarians to banish Jews to the sidelines in public private life. The second Jewish law was passed the following year. This law limited Jewish employment in the professions to six% and
First, he would isolate the Jewish individuals in the country that his SS unit was in. The Jewish people had to wear
thousands of Jews, but he was arrested two years later and taken to Auschwitz. While he was
Throughout the novel, a miniscule act of heroism goes a long way. While working for Oskar Schindler, a Nazi, at his factory, Schindler portrays kindness. Leyson informs us that, ‘A true Nazi observing such an action, such humane treatment of a Jew, would have murdered them both’ (141). By simply making
In the beginning the Neal talks about how Eichmann the SS officer learned how to efficiently move the Jews into smaller areas where they were then placed in the camps. First he would isolate all of the jews into one area. Then he would take all there money and anything else valuable. Lastly he would move them into
In the process of being taken from their homes, the Jews were ordered to run by the Hungarian police, they screamed “Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!” That is when Elie said that he “began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors.They were the faces of hell and death”(Wiesel 19). This was the beginning of there torturous experience, when Elie and the other jews grasp to reality, the inhumane act of taking their belongings, and forcing them to obey all their commands as if they were
In the town lived a man named Moshe, a poor teacher who many knew. Eliezer began meeting with him to pray before Moshe was expelled for being a foreign Jew. Later on, Moshe escapes from Galicia and returns to tell the town that German police forced Jews to dig graves for themselves and were than later killed, but no one in the town believed him. When the Germans came and nothing happened people were relieved, then after the eight days of Passover two ghettos were created in the town. At first, the ghettos did not seem bad, for all they were seen as was Jewish communities, until the Hungarian police forced out families and their belongings and expelled them from Sighet. In 1944, the Hungarian police made Elizer, his family and many other Jews pile into cattle cars to take them on the long journey to the concentration camp. “A prolonged whistle pierced the air. The wheels began to grind. We are on our way” (pg.
On March 19th, 1944, the Nazi’s invaded Hungary. Soon afterwards, Jewish families, like the Davidovitz’s, where forced to wear yellow armbands with the Star of David on them. Shortly after that, the Jews went to go live in the ghettos, overcrowded living areas with appalling living conditions. After about two weeks, those living in the ghettos were told they were taking a trip into Germany for work and to pack their things. Ibi, aged nineteen, was
They continue to hear good and hopeful things, until German troops entered Hungarian territory. When the Germans first came to their town they were polite to people who housed them. But on the 7th day of passover the germans arrested the jewish leaders.
There are many moments in one 's life, where a choice has to be made , but there are only a few times where one collides with a split second decision. Although you only have a few breaths, a minute at most, to decide what to do, your decision, impacts the rest of your life. Simon Wiesenthal 's had many times in his 96 years of life, where he faced difficult choices , yet the one he faced the day he spent at the bedside of a German soldier was undoubtedly a moment which shaped the rest of his life . Dying Karl Seidl, the soldier in question, told Simon of the deeds he committed, towards the Jews, but as the final attempt to cleanse himself of his actions, Seidl asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness. Whatever choice Simon made, would lead
As Passover arrived in Wiesel neighborhood so did the Hungarian police, forcing Jews to turn over their
Not only were Jews not allowed to be employed as a civil service worker, but they also could not practice as a doctor or pedeitrition. These were just one of the many jobs to worthy for a lowly Jew to occupy. Unfortunately for all of the Jewish workers, They did not only lose their jobs but they would also lose their lives. These people were taken from their place of business, and since there was no use for them they were killed probably at the freshly opened Buchenwald camp in 1937.
Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne makes it clear that Reverend Dimmesdale is ashamed that he has hidden his ignominious sin from the people. Within this narrative, the citizens of Salem, along with specific key events, impact his morality and influence his decision to display the Scarlet Letter upon his chest – to the public. It is not until the end that we see his inner soul devoured by his own sin, causing him to break and finally tell everyone the truth about the identity of Hester Prynne’s lover.