Reflection About Holocaust

At the concentration camps, the Jews and prisoners had high hopes of being free and that the holocaust would blow over within a short amount of time from the time when it really ended. When entering the museum and seeing how the Jews were treated they could feel how the Europeans treated the European Jews and started to feel the way the Jews did and how unfortunate it was. “Suparna is visibly shaken. "It's one thing to know that Nazis murdered millions of people," she says. "It's another to put yourself in their place.

     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.

This history course has made me reflect on what I knew about the Holocaust. Many of the material shown to us throughout the semester has made me react and show many impressions about the Holocaust and other Genocides. One of the many images that made me feel sorry was the image were nine people of the Herero population are standing and the heading says, “Herero’s who survived the Desert”. That image made me feel sorry for the Herero people because the Germans made them go through hell just for them to imperialize their territory the southwest Africa. Another image from the Herero Genocide topic that made me realize that the Germans really saw the Herero’s as a lesser race than them was when they began to use the heads of Shark Island Prisoners as experiments or for observations. Besides the images, the Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz text made me realize how it was like living in a concentration camp. That book carries a special meaning towards me because it made realize that yes, the Germans wanted to eliminate all Jews but their goal was also to make them feel as if they were not humans at all. I now came to realize that the concentration camps were obviously cruel due to the hard labor enforced by the Nazis, but the phrase that originated from Darwin, “Survival of the Fittest” was implemented by the prisoners.

Imagine living in a completely different world then you do now. Where you are kept in a confined space with no one and nothing to do. That’s what the jewish people of 1933 to 1945 suffered with. Concentration camps were everywhere, there was nowhere to go or hide. The Holocaust had an atrocious impact on jews and they will never be thought of the same After the camp, many were grateful for what they had and no longer took anything for granted. Each article shows a different way of how Jewish people were treated badly but each shares the same message. After the holocaust was over everybody was grateful for what they had.

From 1933-1945 the Nazi Party, in Germany, had a rise which affected not only Jewish lives in Europe. During this timeframe the Holocaust occurred. The Holocaust was an event which ended in about six million Jews being assassinated by a German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler had help from the Nazi Party. The Nazis were important because they had such an in depth role in the Holocaust. The Nazis played a huge part in the Holocaust because they changed life for the Jews politically, economically, and socially, treated the Jews in Nazi Germany differently, and came up/ implemented a “Final Solution.”

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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,

I chose this topic because it is the most interesting topic I have ever learned in school. Some people do not know the whole story of the Holocaust, they only know of bits and pieces. Most people know that Hitler rose to command and had a strong dislike of specific groups of people, which consequently began the Holocaust. The Holocaust changed the whole world’s perspective. Our fellow human were tortured, starved, and burned alive for being different from society. I wrote this essay to show that there is always another side to a story. Now I give you “The Holocaust Revealed”.

to turn this away and try for a second life. He is like you or I and

The Holocaust a tragic catastrophe in which six million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime. Who were the Nazi’s and what punishments were brought against these war time criminals. During the Holocaust the Nazis used a form of indoctrination that contrived others to believe that the Jews were the ones to blame for the country’s loss after WWI. This indoctrination then lead to the massive murder of the Jews. In later years to come the Nazi leaders were charged with many crimes.

Memories of the Holocaust continue to haunt most of the characters of Art Spiegelman’s The Complete Maus beyond 1940’s Nazi Germany and into their renewed free lives. The graphic novel depicts individuals who never truly survive the horrors of the Holocaust, and the indelible reminders of the inhumane torture an entire race of people were exposed to. Ultimately, it is the survivors of Auschwitz that must continue to relive the atrocious circumstances that resulted in the death of millions, in particular, the author’s unpredictable father Vladek, who unintentionally upholds a restricting lifestyle post war, as a reminder of the cold-blooded evilness the Jewish people were to endure in order to survive the world’s most ruthless massacre. Memories serve as mnemonic glimpses which tether Art and Vladek their family’s past. It is then that second generation survivors have the ability to have a slight understanding of the guilt those who live on must now endure as a burden on their lives.

Genocide is one of the most frightening terms one could hear, sending shivers down your spine just to hear the word. Genocide is the intent of extermination of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. One of the best known Genocide’s to the world is known as the Holocaust. Germans exterminated over 6 million Jews in just a couple of years. Families were torn apart, and some of the worst things you could ever do to a human being were done in these times. After the Holocaust everyone said Never Again, but it has happened over and over. If we follow the steps to preventing genocides, we can stop history from repeating itself and keep the people of the world safe.

At the Bronx High School of Science’s Holocaust Museum, there were many important pieces of evidence that revealed the horrors of the Holocaust. The artifact that struck me the most is a poster that shows a Nazi enemy stabbing the center of a Holy Bible with a dagger, and the words “This is the Enemy” printed underneath. This poster was designed by Barbara Marks in 1942 in Washington DC. The purpose of this artifact was to portray Nazi opposition to many religions in America. The image of propaganda depicts the Nazis as monstrous people who despised other religions, especially Judaism, and did whatever they could to eliminate the Jewish population. This artifact stood out to me because it helped me understand the main reason for the Holocaust.

The history of the Holocaust is taught systematically in all school systems throughout America and most of the known-world. The atrocities committed by Nazi-Germany are well-known and are likely to never be forgotten. The proof behind Hitler’s Final Solution is undeniable. However, with the rise of Holocaust deniers comes the grave danger of forgetting the truth behind the Holocaust, and dooming ourselves to repeating history once again. Holocaust deniers claim that certain events of the Holocaust never happened or are fabricated; however, there are numerous types of evidence that provide concrete proof that it did indeed occur.

As a social studies teacher, I should know more information about the Holocaust than just the average person. I have not actually taught about the Holocaust and it was been awhile since I took a class or read a book about the Holocaust, so this should be a good review. The Holocaust happened during World War 2 in Europe during the 1930s-1940s and was the extermination of the Jewish people in Europe. Adolf Hitler was the main person that was behind the beginning of the hatred and discrimination of the Jewish people. Decades of discrimination of the Jewish people in Europe made it easier for Hitler to target the Jewish people.