Silence In The Holocaust

War and genocide: two tragic and devastating events that people often think of as vastly different. Where war usually reveals political difference, genocide demonstrates the idea of a certain party that desires to use mass destruction on another group. However, war and genocide have similarities which create uncertainty on how to define the event. “The Silent Holocaust”, more specifically known as the Guatemalan genocide of the Mayans, is a model example of confusion between war and genocide; many Mayans were killed, but the government claims the killings were justified. The Mayans’ fight for equality led the Guatemalan government to commit genocide against these people, by using the factors of the ongoing war as an excuse for the Mayan

This can be shown using the diary of a young girl named Anne Frank who went into hiding with the intention of hiding out the war. She wrote “We’re afraid that when the Germans retreat, they’ll take the entire population with them” (Frank, ___). This demonstrates that the main reason behind silence is fear. Fear, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “to be afraid or apprehensive” (Merriam-Webster). This is acceptable within this time period, there was fear ringing through every possible corner of the countries involved, fear of captivity, fear of dying, fear of disease, and numerous other factors. Combined, you may see a whole population who remains silent and anxious of what may occur in the future, scared to say anything or commit actions that may be considered inappropriate to the Nazis. Although these horrible measures were taken during this war, there was a yet a group of defiant heros who spoke for what they believed is true and spoke with the intention of liberation and freedom for all, no matter color, race, ethnicity, or religion and these people are the reason the world is as it is

Holocaust. A word of Greek origin that means sacrifice by fire. The Holocaust is a terrible event in our world’s history. During the course of the Holocaust six million men, women and children of the Jewish faith were murdered by Aolf Hitler and his Nazis in concentration and death camps across Europe. “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” Elie Wiesel----cite correctly with Ms. G. By remembering the victims of the Holocaust we are breaking the silence and honoring the lives that were taken too soon.

It’s about the jews and how and what happened to them after the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the time where about six million jews and one million other people dying. Most people were killed because they belonged to different races and religions. The Nazis wanted to kill people that weren’t from their same religious group. The Nazis also killed people who disrespected Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party.

Why was the world silent during the Holocaust? It’s hard for us to imagine that the world could stand silently by. There are many factors that can be contributed to that. Those reasons include economic, social, and a general apathy for the plight of the Jewish people. From an economic stand point, the Allies were financially strained due to the cost of fighting a global war. Socially, the question of how and where to offer refuge to millions of Jews would have seemed like an impossible task. Finally, there were those who felt and believed that the Jewish people were somehow responsible for the death of Christ led to a general feeling of contempt towards the Jewish people. These are just a few of the reasons that the world stayed

The Holocaust, one of humanities most horrendous acts and a large topic in the history of World War II. Led by the German National Socialists, the Holocaust was an attack on innocent people for reasons of race, sexuality, nationality, and religion with their main target being the millions of European Jews who they saw as an ‘inferior race’. Hitler and his higher up stripped Jews of everything. He took their money, their homes, their jobs, their nationality, their dignity, and eventually he took their lives. In Peter Longerich’s Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews, Longerich takes an in depth look at Nazi politics and how it eventually led to their Final Solution of the Jewish Question. His research that began in the late 1990s, when he questioned both schools of Holocaust studies, the Intentionalists and the Structuralists. His studies in Europe led to a novel that that outlines the entire history of the Holocaust, the ideas of Judenfrage, and the implementation of Judenpolitik on the Jews of Europe from 1933 to 1945.

The author, Elie Wiesel, had the purpose of giving his speech to try to keep the memory of the crimes were committed during the Holocaust. In Elie’s speech he exclaims that, “I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment. I remember his anguish.” (Wiesel). The following part of his speech shows the audience the impact that the Holocaust had on him, how the little boy image has stayed with him all after all these years. In his speech, Elie, remembers the little boy asking his father,

The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially was over. About six million Jewish civilians perished because of it. There were some people that survived. What impact did the Holocaust have on its survivors? When the Holocaust ended, all survivors suffered from different emotions because they survived the tragedy. The survivors lost loved ones, and they had to keep that memory of the event with them for the rest of their lives. As a result of these emotions, they coped in many negative ways. Survivors of the Holocaust experienced guilt, isolated themselves, and suffered from a mental illness.

This is why we choose hiding not to make the Nazis mad, but to be a little safer. Also, to spend more time with my family. No Jews would ever want to suffer as much as they did in camps. Even if it's a camp either way you are gonna die. Families were separated some to the left and some to the right. Every Jewish were facing consequences for the crimes they didn’t do. Other thing is that they lost their

In public discourse surrounding an event like the Holocaust, it is not uncommon for one to want to summarize the event in some abstract concept, be it positive or negative. This type of thinking is especially prevalent in the conclusions drawn by those reading literary works relating to the Holocaust, in which the stories are so entrenched with stereotypes of suffering and the equivocal life-lessons that they lead to a rather shallow understanding of an emotive and difficult subject. This is not to say that drawing these types of conclusions is wrong or especially invalid, but rather the process of projecting these lessons onto the story without developing their further implications speaks to a superficial longing of externalizing the

Everybody had a different perspective on the Jews. One perspective is, Hitler believed the Jews were horrible. He had also explained and convinced this to the Nazis by saying they were “back stabbing” people. For example, the text Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf Excerpt from Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust” it states “..Germany had lost World War I through a “stab in the back” from its own government, which had allied itself with Jews. The Jews had so weakened the government that it had lost the will and the strength to fight.” The quote goes the show why Hitler and the Nazis have a hatred for the Jews. They explain and infer that they only reason why the Germans had lost World War 1 is because the Jews allied themselves with

Growing up a child is taught that it is essential to obey elders or higher authority. Throughout history, there have been events where a person's obedience to someone has caused the death of many. Some examples of these occurrences are the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and many other mass killings that have happened. The one thing all these genocides have in common is that a leader has dictated over many others and have brought their followers to do hateful actions. These leaders have used many concepts to captivate their followers. Racism plays a vital role in blind obedience, but propaganda and the belief that all professionals are right are significant factors too.

I don’t think this poem could be improved by adding imaginative phrases. It isn’t the type of poem for that, it is more clear cut. I think the poem can’t just be read and needs to be thought about it because the final line really made me think that after he didn’t speak out for anyone when they came and persecuted him nobody was there to help either.

This essay is about a picture taken in the holocaust. It is a very sad picture it is a picture of many Jewish men broken, wore, dead inside, beaten until they cannot move but are forced to work anyway. Abused is a poor word to describe these men more like, tortured is an accurate word to describe how these man were treated. You cannot tell the difference between the ones that have been there for years and the newer ones. You cannot tell the difference between the younger ones and the older ones. In this essay, I will explain this photo, and what it contains as of places, people, and action.

“To be silent is impossible, to speak forbidden.” said author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. This quote here is Wiesel’s way of showing one who did not experience time during the Holocaust how it is fair to say that they could never begin to understand what it was like. If one were also to ask Wiesel to speak about the work he did or what he saw at the concentration camps, he may explain how speaking of it fails to acknowledge the depth of evil put out, and how it is discourteous to the memories of those who died during the Holocaust. Speaking may be forbidden, however, it is for the failure it may bring for speaking the truth about the Holocaust.