We can honor and remember the victims of the Holocaust through literature.
Literature can reveal insight about the Holocaust and provide the reader with knowledge and allows them to better understand what happened during that time period. Literature enables us to learn about the Holocaust, make sure we do not forget what happened, and honor and remember the victims.
Literature written about the Holocaust can provide the reader with insight and knowledge, looking into this tragic time period. Anne Frank, a girl who was in hiding during the Holocaust, kept a diary in which she explained what was going on around her and described her emotions. She wrote, “The rest of our family, however, felt the full impact of Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws, so life was filled with anxiety.” Anne gives the reader an insight about how she felt, being a child who was in
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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. Although she gets arrested and was sent to prison, she managed to survive the Holocaust. The narrator explains, ” I wrote to say that I’d survived Auschwitz and was coming home. I got there a few weeks later.” This shows that although this girl had been through so much, she was eventually realized and wrote about her story, which can help us honor and remember her and all the other victims of the
“It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” (Anne Frank) Anne Frank was one of the many children who fell victim to the Holocaust during the World War II. Anne’s story is nothing short of a tragedy; she died at the early age of fifteen from Typhus while being held by the Nazi Regime, in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Before dying, Anne and her family went into hiding and lived secretly in her father's office building in the Netherlands. While living in the “Annex,” a secret hiding place, she developed many interests such as reading and writing. Anne is famous because she is one of the best-known victims of the Holocaust, her story has been shared with millions in a publication of her diary, and through her writing’s she introduces many people to the massacre and its horror.
Imagine yourself being born as a Jew in the time of the Holocaust. Being forced to go into hiding, and go every day not knowing what will come next, living in fear of being captured by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. The Holocaust was a time in period when a guy named Adolf Hitler came into power of being the leader of the Nazis. The Nazis rounded and relocated nearly 1 million Jews from all across Europe to forced labor camps and extermination camps. There were different ways they got rid of the Jews. A quarter of the Jews were worked to death. The rest were sent immediately to gas chambers to be killed. Literature helps us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by reading and seeing all the suffering they went through.
Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.
Many, many people suffered during the Holocaust war. The Jews in particular were in grave danger. The drama ‘Anne Frank’ outlines so many ways that this historical event caused a shift in the mood of the characters and their relationships. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just an ordinary Jewish girl living in Germany. A German leader named Adolf Hitler developed a plan to destroy the Jews and to rule over the specific places where they lived. What Hitler did to these poor Jews, and the sheer terror they endured at the hands of this Nazi leader is purely unfathomable.
The Holocaust, a morbid atrocity that made people question humanity, was the cause of millions of deaths. One of those victims of this brutality was Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis along with her family. Although she was merely ordinary, Anne Frank kept a diary which became a significant, historical artifact in the modern world as it details her account of concealing her identity from the outside world. Her story, told in an innocent perspective, allows individuals to reflect the dreadful events of the Holocaust and acknowledge how far we have come since then. Even though she died along with millions of other victims from the Holocaust, her spirit still exists thanks to her articulately written words in her diary which is now considered one of the most famous works of literature. Anne Frank’s legacy still lives on today because her story provides a primary source of a dark period in history, insightful contemplation of humanity, and motivation for people to stand up against unjustified persecution.
Literature can help us remember the Holocaust by elaborating us about the victims and what they went through. From various different texts they support how literature can help us remember World War II and to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" tells us a story about how her life as a Jew was drastically changing during the Holocaust and the start of World War II (WWII). She was a very intelligent young woman that had hopes and dreams. Anne was a normal teenager trying to find her way in life. All of that changed when the Nuremburg Race Laws were formed. Her father who was a World War I fighter hid his family and friends in a Secret Annex that was blended in with a normal neighborhood. As she lived for months in the Secret Annex, Frank had written her diary, full of her experiences in the Annex. Everything changed though, when she reached the end of her times in the Annex. Hitler's men had found Anne and her family and friends. This memoir adds in to the
Her story is an example of a person who struggled with adversity but searched for a reason to hope. She has used her remarkable survival as an inspiration for those who have no reason to believe they can overcome struggles. She has a foundation named Citizenship Counts which teaches students about their rights and the importance of their citizenship. She has written many books about her experiences and her belief that hope will help a person overcome darkness. She travels the world today telling people her story to increase their knowledge of the Holocaust. Her story of survival serves of as an inspiration to people who are suffering and are looking for a reason to have hope.¹
Her parents died on the train to the concentration camp, and saved Trudes life, by taking bullets for her and her siblings. She didn’t say much about her holocaust experience but what she did say was absolutely outstanding. She has killed one of the nazi guards there at the concentration camp. She killed him by taking him by surprise and snapping his neck and no one saw her do this.
As someone may ask, how can a literature help us remember such a horrific event such as the Holocaust and help honor those of many victims? Well, some evidence I have from this comes from three different sources.
To many people, the Holocaust was one of the worst times in history. It all started with the plan from Germany’s dictator to try and wipe out the entire Jewish religion. Adolf Hitler set out to kill all the Jews, and he used concentration camps and dirty ghettos to get the job done. [Holocaust Background] Many people turned to writing to help get them through the hell on earth that they were living in. Using all of these writings, people were able to learn about what life was during the Holocaust.
Relevance to Audience: When thinking of this brave 13 year old girl, most think of the Jewish culture, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Soldiers of Germany. But of us really know the pain and suffering the Jewish
The Diary of Anne Frank is a remarkably moving book about the short life of a young girl and her family. The Holocaust was a horrible time for Jewish people and Anne and her Jewish family’s lives were completely turned upside down as a result. The war resulted in the deaths of countless people, mostly innocent people. Before the invasion on D-day and the end of the war not too long after, the rest of the world didn’t know the real disaster going on over seas. Anne Frank’s once secret diary has introduced the immense suffering and horror that occurred during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust is a very large topic with many subtopics within, which many people have never heard of. One in particular is the Hidden Children of the Holocaust. Like a majority of individuals, I never heard of this topic before, until I started my inquiry work. Hiding children during the holocaust was an effort to save thousands of children’s lives. The children were hidden in different ways, either with false identities, underground, and with or without their parents. The children with false identities were allowed to participate in everyday life activities, like attend school and socialize with children their age, which in the long run this lead to less emotional and mental issues. However, the children that were hidden and not allowed to leave their hiding spots often faced boredom, pain, and torment. Some children were capable of being hid with their parents while other children were not. Depending on the situation the child was in, depends on the effects it had on the child during this time. In this paper, I will be discussing works by two scholars, Natalia Aleksiun’s Gender and Daily Lives of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia and Judy Mitchell’s Children of the Holocaust. Aleksiun’s article talks about the daily lives of Jews in hiding and also about how they prepared their hideouts. Aleksiun’s article mainly focuses on children that were hidden with their families. In Mitchell’s article, he focuses on the hidden children and gives examples/survivor stories on what it
The general idea for this short story came from a book named, Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey (2001). This is a compiled collection of the eyewitness testimonies of the Holocaust during World War 2. It includes accounts of life