The Ghetto Underwent A Beautification Ghetto

In the article The Construction of the Ghetto by Massey and Denton, there are several policies and practices that still has its effect on racial structure today. Among the several practices and policies are the Government Issue (GI) Bill for veterans and housing loans. At a political view, the GI Bill for veterans helped them buy houses at a lower price due to their contribution in the war. Since White veterans have the GI Bill, they moved out to the suburbs during 1940-1970, which was during the time of suburbanization. Because Black veterans did not receive the GI Bill, they were unable to move out and buy houses. This effect is still present today, considering that in the statistics, Blacks are less likely than Whites to own houses.

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point.

Censorship is one of the many manifestations used by the Nazi’s throughout the most notorious genocide in history. Censorship is essentially “the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.” Book Burnings are a method of censorship that the government uses to diminish a group of people’s interpretations, very often in a time of annihilation. Heinrich Heine once said, "Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." Book Burning, the public act of turning books to ash, ultimately resorts to the act of turning humans to ash. Books represent the rights of freedom of speech and freedom to express your beliefs, and when those rights are taken away, dehumanization is the outcome. The May 10, 1933 Nazi book burning, was the first major act of censorship against the Jews. Symbolically, the extermination of 25,000 books ultimately led to the murder of six million Jews. The act of book burning prohibits the spread of information through literary works, contrary to the ultimate goal of authors and publishers who wish to share their opinions.

Very few, if any, don't recall the events of the tragic killing of millions of Jews. The story and historically event we call the Holocaust. What was it like in the places the resided and what were their conditions? Were ghettos anything like how the are today?

Book burning is the ceremonial destruction of books or any other written works by fire. And it is done in public. Also it is a representation of censorship. The drive behind such acts can either be political, cultural, or religious resistance to the material in question. The purpose of the Nazi book burning was to destroy all ideologies that were considered to be un-German. In 1933, university students were on a mission to cleanse Germany of Jewish intellectual ideas (Fishburn, 2007). They believe that the book burning would keep the German literature and language from external influences. The majority of the books that Jewish authors wrote were burnt during that era.

May 10, 1933, the Nazis organized the public burning of books pen German writers of Jewish origin. The flames devoured the wonderful literary works. Author of some of them, Heinrich Heine once said truly prophetic words that if one begins with the burning of the books it will end up with burning people.

The word “Ghettos” was used in the middle ages and meant a segregated area away from a city where some were forced to live. The word and idea was revived by Hitler and his men. The Ghettos had many uses and each different from the other. One thing that remained the same was the injustices towards the Jews. Some Ghettos were used as holding grounds, for those who were soon headed to concentration camps.

An individual faces many struggles growing up in society. Schooling is no different, at least it wasn 't for me. Growing up an double minority was rough. Not only was there a stereotype for being hispanic but there was also the sexism that tags along with being a female. Growing up a in a lower class educational system only exasperated these qualities even more. I grew up in what others would describe as the ghetto. I knew it and so did everyone else. Because of this, I grew up with this notion that I was not adequate enough to succeed. All it took was for one believer, and as I continued to grow, many believers to help me see my full potential. This help was essential in showing me what my capabilities are and that i am able to achieve so

In Auschwitz Jews, among others, were burned and killed mercilessly. “ If anyone goes missing you will all be shot like dogs.” This show that they don’t refer to Jews as human beings but as filthy dogs. SS officers didn’t care if you lived or died they just wanted to torture and murder you. This just shows how dehumanizing Auschwitz can be on Jews.

“The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city's Jews to live. (ushmm.org)” They believed that they would get treated well wherever they moved to. Ghetto was a place Jews lived in during the Holocaust. There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos.

On May 10, 1933, more than 25,000 books were burned across the entire nation of Germany (“Book Burning”). In Berlin, 40,000 Germans gathered to watch the burning and to hear Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, speak. In his speech, Goebbels fiercely shouted, “no to moral corruption” and “yes to decency and morality” (“Book Burning”)! He claimed this was the purpose of the book burnings. The German book burnings targeted not just Jewish authors, but also authors who stood for contemporary ideas and social justice. Book burnings were artistic productions that also featured speeches, songs, and chants all in the Nazi effort to purify

Those who were arrested were taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Danish Red Cross worked on their behalf to ensure their welfare. They were persistent in knowing their location and living conditions and therefore secured better treatment for their imprisoned countrymen. The Danish Red Cross also pressured the Germans to allow the International Red Cross to inspect Thereseinstadt and a visit was eventually granted for June 23, 1944. However, the conditions of the camp are known now to have been a great hoax; in preparation for this visit, the Nazis orchestrated a beautification project for the camp, which included painting buildings, constructing fake stores, planting gardens, and adding better furnishings to the shower area. The prisoners were also threatened that they and their families would be killed if they in any way expose the deception. The visit was conducted by a Berlin delegate from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dr. Maurice Rossel, and two representatives of the Danish government and Danish Red Cross. According to a later interview, when

presents the hopeless existence of the captured men in the concentration camp, whose basic human rights

The concentration camps that were run by the Nazis during World War II can easily be labeled as one of the most grotesque examples of cruelty in the entire world. The people that were sent to these concentration camps were treated as less than human by the power hungry leaders of the camp. As we have all learned in history classes throughout our lives, the conditions of these camps were blatantly abhorrent, and it is a surprise that people made it out of these camps alive. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl uses his experiences in a concentration camp as an example to his readers that life holds a potential meaning no matter what condition a person is in. In the two parts of his book he analyzes his experiences and the

The Movie “Schindler's List” is touching on so many levels. It addresses the holocaust in a whole new way. We hear about the holocaust as if it was just something that happened, something that doesn’t really seem to be worth your time to learn about. But when you see that these are people who were as normal as you and me, men and women who had dreams and aspirations, and then think, what if that was me? It brings these events home to you. The movie shows the viewer how horrible and disrespectful these barbaric people acted toward completely innocent people and how they had no regard for anything these people's worked for or what they stand for. At the very end it shows everyone of the still living Jews Schindler saved which makes any of the viewers really feel the total enormity of the holocaust and that these people were just normal people, people who were not simply just faceless or somehow different but very