Kristallnacht: The Horrific Nature Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust, one of the worst genocides in history, a time that every person should know and understand, the mass murder of Jews over 5 years of pain and suffering. The best way to teach this in my opinion is with the Elie Wiesel interview Death Camp Auschwitz and to show it when middle schoolers are young, but old enough to have an idea of what happened from 1939 to 1945, but the middle schoolers can't watch this without losing important information not given in the video. So there is a reason why the middle schoolers should see this over reading books and online stories, and how they will keep wanting to listen to what else is missing from the picture. But there will be some forms of information lost when the middle schoolers watch this over the books and such. So what gives this interview video an advantage over books.

One of the most controversial aspects of this method was the use of animals to portray different races of people. The use of animals as human races shows the reader the ideas of the Holocaust a lot more forcefully than simply using humans as the characters.

The statement that, “ The most widely seen films about the holocaust tend to focus on the mystery of goodness rather than the horror of mass murder,” can be seen as a true statement, but a very skewed one. The reason that we see this patterning is the fact that many of the personal stories (by survivors) come from two split paths, those who survived through an extermination camp and those who survived outside of one. These extermination camps led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands and those people's lives were lost along with their stories. Many documentaries tend to focus on the people that were detained in an extermination camp during the Second World War. Documentaries tend to focus on the horror of the mass murder in the extermination

The Holocaust should be taught to 8th graders. The story of the 6 million lives that were lost need to be told. It is very evident at this point that 8th graders are able to understand and process the Holocaust. There is no reason not to teach the Holocaust, and every reason to teach it. This paper argues that the best approach is to teach children about the holocaust early on, because it’s in the interest of everyone that their first encounter with the Holocaust isn’t random, through a TV show or the internet. “...better...to help them navigate what they will learn about

There were a gross amount of horrors that went unnoticed during the holocaust that are brought to attention in great detail by

Throughout the film Image Before My Eyes, directed by Josh Waletzky, viewers are shown videos, pictures, and interviews regarding European Jewry from the late 1910’s to the 1930’s. Though this is a film explaining the events and upheavals that led up to the Holocaust, the word Holocaust is rarely ever mentioned. It is through the use of multimedia in this film that the devastating history of the Holocaust becomes illuminated. The film allows the viewer to begin to fathom the destructive events that occurred between the two World Wars as well as the secularization of daily life for Jews throughout this time period.

A powerful and provocative graphic novel, Maus, generates a Jewish individual’s life of grotesque and horror. With its ability of perception and interpretation, it tackles the main points of the ominous Holocaust and delivers a spooky aura to the absorbed audience. In comparison to Schindler’s List, the graphic novel shines brightly than the pale movie due to its realism and humor that is constantly present throughout the storyline. The novel has the ability to connect to the audience; thus, it gives an in-depth look and overall comprehension of the massacre that Spiegelman is trying to communicate. The graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, brings an honest account of the Holocaust to a wide audience because of its historical truth and intriguing viewpoints and characters that shows the effect and process of the genocide.

During this project, I learned a lot of things related to our subject and the iPads. First of all, By reading different article on the web, I developed my knowledge related to Kristallnacht and the Nazis. For instance, before doing this project, I did not know one single person in the Nazi's organization, except Adolf Hitler. Now, I can easily name four other people (Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister, Heinrich Himmler, the chief of German Police, Hermann Göring, the president of the Reichstag and veteran of the WW1, and Walther Funk, the minister of economics affairs), talk a little about them, and especially, recognize them in pictures. Before doing this project, I knew what was Kristallnacht in general, but nothing more. Today, I understand

In Schindler’s List, the camps pull at the hearts of viewers because of the horrid conditions in which the prisoners had to face as well as the amount of deaths that

The Holocaust was perhaps the darkest event in the twentieth century. This genocide resulted in the death of six million Jews -not counting the death of soldiers from World War II. Although many Jews died during the Holocaust, some survived and spoke about their struggles and experiences. Art Spiegelman, an American cartoonist, interviewed his father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Holocaust survivor. After collecting information from the interviews with his father, Spiegelman, created Maus, a comic book novel about his father’s experiences during the Holocaust. The graphic novel helps readers visualize the horrors of the Holocaust through its illustration, and symbolism. Despite being criticized for being a comic book, it has won multiple awards, for its valuable content of the Holocaust. Maus is an important contribution to the Holocaust genre, as it informs readers about the Holocaust in the perspective of the survivor.

In Schindler’s List, there are many tragic pictures of victims of the holocaust. The Holocaust is known for it’s injustice, cruelty and hopelessness.

As mentioned before, graphic novels can be great tools for some, if not all, readers. As well the holocausts can be a difficult subject, not always easy to read about. Using graphic novels, which often is associated with children, to represent a traumatic event can be problematic: “The enormity of atrocity is such that the very act of representing it risked trivializing or over-dramatizing it,”(2). In other words, the author has to be very cautions when writing serious graphic novels not to get too creative

The emotion is what really can draw the student into the story, and really show them the deeper meaning. When a student can finally look into a story and know what the real purpose was, the overall motive, or can feel the pain the victims felt then it helps them really develop a new sense of meaning wit the story. Once a student can understand on that level then they really know what the story is about, but in this case the story is a real event. This story is written about the Holocaust which was a devastating genocide in history that still haunt people today. So when trying to teach students about that they will get the understanding from the story and be able to make the connection from the story to the actual event.

Films are a powerful outlet to spread information about a specific event that ay have or is going to happen. Directors are given the power to catch the attention of an audience through various different techniques and allow them to demonstrate the point that they are wanting the audience to walk away with. When reviewing the films that were provided for us in this course which included Night and Fog, Son of Saul, and Shoah, I was able to immediately select a scene from each that impacted me in immense ways and provide me with memories that will continue to have an outlasting impact and influence on the way that I view the events of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was a tragedy that occurred because of the immense power the Nazis had. Individuals, governments, and organizations made choices that induced legalized discrimination, prejudice, mass murder, and hatred. The film was directed in a way that allows the viewers to get an idea of the amount of power Hitler had over Germany. Chaplin's object was