The Excelsior's Diary

For example, his love for a Jewish girl named Stephanie. Although he was madly in love with her to the point of suicide, he never once spoke with her. He would speak often to his friend Kubizek about poems he had written to her but, he never could work up the courage to give them to her. He was deeply jealous of any attention she showed to other young men. The girl never knew of Adolf Hitler’s feeling toward her. She later married an Austrian army officer. This rejection of his unrequited love may very well have contributed to his anti-Semitic pro Arian views of hatred towards the Jewish people. Similarly, when he moved to Vienna to pursue his love of art, He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts, confident and self-assured, quite sure he would get in. But failure struck him like a bolt of lightning. His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and he was not admitted. Hitler was badly shaken by this rejection. He went back to the academy to get an explanation and was told his drawings showed a lack of talent for artistic painting, notably a lack of appreciation of the human form. He was told, however, that he had some ability for the field of architecture which, he wasa unable to pursue since he had dropped out of high school. This rejection led to him becoming homeless. Adolf Hitler’s rejection by the Jewish girl coupled with the rejection by an institute of higher learning may

The mid 20th century was a time of grief and genocide in Europe, which created a life of anger and despair for those who were affected. Family was so important during the holocaust as it was the only way that someone would be able to handle this time. Elise Wiesel, a survivor of the holocaust, created a work of art with his personal account called Night about his journey during the 1940’s. He uses a plethora of literary devices to convey a theme of strong family bond within his book. During the 1940’s, the Nazi Party in Germany created an era of anti-Semitism and genocide which involved the lives of Jews living in western Europe. During this time in Germany, over 6 million Jews died and only a few lived to tell

The terrors of the Holocaust are unimaginably destructive as described in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The story of his experience about the Holocaust is one nightmare of a story to hear, about a trek from one’s hometown to an unknown camp of suffering is a journey of pain that none shall forget. Hope and optimism vanished while denial and disbelief changed focus during Wiesel’s journey through Europe. A passionate relationship gradually formed between the father and the son as the story continued. The book Night genuinely demonstrates how the Holocaust can alter one's spirits and relations.

“Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again.”

When Irene Safran was only twenty-one years old, her carefree life ended in the face of the Holocaust. Born to two Jewish parents as one of ten children-- four girls and six boys in all-- in Munkachevo, Czechoslovakia around the year 1923, her world changed in early April 1944 when she and her family were transferred to a Jewish ghetto. For the next year, Irene's life was a series of deaths, losses, and humiliations no human should ever have to suffer, culminating, years later, with a triumphant ending. Her story is proof that the human spirit can triumph over all manner of adversity and evil.

Nazis, death, atrocities and girlfriends? During the Holocaust millions of European Jews were inhumanly killed. In dire times, companionship increases one's chances of survival. This is shown in Elie Wiesel’s memoir “Night” and Michele Ohayon’s documentary “Steal A Pencil For Me”. These two works are both non-fictional and show how companionship helps lead to survival.

World War Two, a time of gore, the type of war, humanity can’t stand or bear to imagine! This was a time where six million Jews were sent to their deaths. The war, known as the Holocaust, lasted from 1939-1945. Yet, the question asked by all, how does the spirit triumph? Our spirit’s triumph by these “big things”, known as love, laughter, and nature.

The Holocaust is well-known as one of the most inhumane and terrible instances in which the human race has inflicted conflict upon itself. In Night, events during this time are portrayed from a first-person perspective, giving even greater insight to the horrors within. Elie Wiesel deeply describes every aspect of his journey through the Holocaust, from concentration camp selections, to the food, to the everyday work and abuse. In the given section, Elie and his father must endure multiple selections. They are separated and Elie describes his reactions to the apparent loss of his father, Shlomo.

“[My Father’s] last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered” (Wiesel 75). In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experiences of the tragedy known as the Holocaust. His first-hand experiences of a current Jew at the following concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald, were both atrocious and eloquent. Father-Son relationships were disregarded because of the situations involving the Holocaust.

Traumatic life experiences can have a variety of effects on a person, like constant flashbacks, PTSD, or depression. But very difficult life or death experiences can also seriously change a person’s personality. In Maus, Art Spiegelman explores how living through the Holocaust affects his father’s personality and personal relationships. By showing us Vladek’s story in both the past and the present, we get to see his experiences in the Holocaust changed who he is as a person thirty years later. On the surface, modern-day Vladek appears to be an uptight, miserly, crotchety old man, but by examining how his experiences in the Holocaust and what he had to in order to survive, we can see how they continue

“Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky ” (Wiesel 34). History is all about the preservation the of past and never forgetting the memories of those who were lost. For years, Hitler persecuted large numbers of Jews by putting them into concentration camps and slaughtering them by the thousands. In the end, more than five million Jews were killed. Nonetheless there were those who were able to subsist the terrors that Hitler inflicted. Art Spiegelman’s father Vladek and Elie Wiesel are two individuals who were fortunate to live through this period of mass murder. Art Spiegelman, who is responsible for narrating the story of his father, concentrates on the concept that it was not the

My written assignment will be based on short story The Palace Thief written by Ethan Canine. This story is about the journey of a teacher, Mr Hundert in a boys’ school St Benedict. The present of new student into the class named Sedgewick Bell have influence Mr Hundert life as a dedicated teacher. In this written assignment, I decide to write a diary entry of Sedgewick Bell about his feeling of entering new school.

Adolf was also an avid reader, one day as he was rummaging through his father’s books he found one that involved military and became as he said in his own words “obsessed” with anything involving military. Adolf’s 6 year old little brother Edmund died of measles, this appeared to have a great effect on Adolf. Edmund was buried in the cemetery right next door to their house, from young Adolf’s window he could easily pick out his little brothers gravestone. Neighbors said that the boy could commonly be seen at night laying on the cemetery wall watching the stars. In 1900, Adolf had graduated from primary school and was now forced to choose between two options for secondary school, classical school which focused on the arts or technical school which focused on math and science. Young Adolf loved art and was a talented artist for his age, he tried

Perhaps, in one or the other, we all have experiences that we have gone through and they completely altered our lives. Evidently, we all have some unforgettable experiences, with some having the best and others have the worst kind of experiences. History is documented through the narration of testimonies by the victims of the experiences. Over the years, there is a lot that has happened in the world and all the occasions, there were people who were left to tell the stories. The holocaust is one of the worst events in the world that people had to endure; millions of people were killed in cold blood but there were survivors who lived to tell the story. Through their testimonies, we all get to know and connect with their experiences.

My father was a cold man, his love was for his country and his job. He was the kind of man that looked for an excuse to use his belt, I remember the thrashing I would receive as a child… I feared him, and for that, he earned my respect. My father was a large supporter of the Regime, having worked as an officer for several years he rose quickly through relations with Reinhard Heydrich. I remember many nights when he and father would drink and smoke cigars in the study. He moved quickly by greasing hands and soon I remember that we moved from our small house into a much larger one, closer to my father 's new office. That is when the