“The Nazis are coming! The Nazis are coming!” They’re hunting you down if you are not part of the Aryan Race. Those heartless, ruthless “racially superior” humans invaded the formerly cozy country of the Netherlands only a few days ago and are destroying the community. The Germans will search high and low, catch you, and harm you if you are Jewish and living in the open with fake identification papers.
Adolf Hitler, the leader of these actions, believes that only tall people with pure German blood, blonde hair, and blue eyes are good enough to form his “master race. Hitler declared, “I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the
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The purpose of opening up your home to a frightened “inferior” is to keep them from Nazi control.
Your friends and family need a shelter-- a safe and sound hiding place. As non-targeted citizens of the town, you need to do what is right and allow anybody that is in danger, into your home. This must be a secret to provide the new roommates with food, water, clothing, and toiletry items so they can continue their lifestyle while hiding from the dangers that the menacing Nazi’s present.
Remember, your fellow citizens have nothing with them while they run through these streets, seeking a temporary home. If you happen to be one of the gracious souls who gives up a portion of their home until this tragedy ends, let your guest stay for no charge and give them privacy and peace. Perhaps you should make a meal for them and report to them the latest news. Make your residence the most comfortable place for them to escape the hunt. They are in a very unfortunate position and don’t have the freedom to go outside for air or to a restaurant for a
Prior to Nazi rule, life in Germany had been subject to many hardships. The German People had been victim of
The first reason the Ten Boom family should have hidden the Jews is it was the right thing to do. The Nazi’s persecuting the Jews is wrong so someone has to help them. The Jews do not deserve to die just because their belief. They had plenty of room for them in their gigantic house. Their home was
Studing the Holocaust is very importnant, there are many different categories in this topic that you can break it down into. Hitler's rise to power, the Holocaust itself, World War II, Anne Frank, and why it is important to learn about the Holocaust. These are vey large topics in this subject, they are important things to hit on. The holocaust caused a lot of confusion durnig this time period.
There are a plethora of reasons to study the Holocaust. Not only does it benefit the students by opening their eyes to the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party in the 1930s and 1940s, but it also benefits the many people who don't know about the Holocaust and haven't learned enough to understand the terror faced by the "undesirables" and how far we, as the human race, must go to ensure that this does not happen again. First, however, we must learn how it all took place.
Why is the holocaust so important? The holocaust started in 1933 and lasted over 15 years and ended in 1945. The holocaust is important because during world war II Adolf Hitler was trying to annihilate all the jews. Over 17 million Jews were captured from all over Germany and Poland. Why did Adolf Hitler have such a big grudge against Jews?
When many think of the Holocaust as a solely negative experience, and while it may seem easy to write the event off as a dark time in history that seems remote and unlikely to affect us today, there are some positive results, including the lessons that it brings for current and future humanity. The lessons that the Holocaust brings are applicable to every person in the world. While many of these lessons do focus on the negative aspects of the Holocaust, like what circumstances permit such a vast genocide and how many people can die because of widespread racial hatred, there are also those that focus on how some people, in all parts of Europe and throughout the world, retained their good human nature during the Holocaust. For example, what made some gentiles in Europe during that time willing and able to help Jews. Currently, Yad Vashem has recognized 26,513 rescuers throughout the world (Names), and the actual number of rescuers could likely be close to twice that amount (Baron,1). It is important that we analyze the reasons behind these rescuers’ choices to be upstanders instead of bystanders because we can learn about our own motivations when we face decisions between helping others and protecting ourselves, and possibly those we love, from harm. Fulfilling one’s self-interest was a potential motivation for helping Jews that will only be briefly addressed. This type of rescue potentially benefitted both the Jews and the Gentile rescuers; these Gentiles only helped Jews survive because they found personal gain, likely social or economic, in the action (Baron). However, in the situation that existed while rescuing the Jews, most efforts included the high possibility that both the rescuer and the rescued would end up worse off than they had begun with no potential for personal gain on either side. So those rescuers’ motivations are less easily explainable.
As Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel once said, “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,” that is why we are called to remember. Many movies, novels, and story representations of the Holocaust have been created in order to spread the memory of the past. An important part of remembering is learning, and therefore not repeating the same mistakes once again. Movies may find it difficult to represent the Holocaust accurately, while also giving it meaning and artistic expression. The writer, Edwin de Vries, and the director, Jeroen Krabbé, strive to represent the legacies of the Holocaust and Jewish culture in the film, Left Luggage (1998), based on a novel by Carl Friedman through a portrayal of the daily lives of Holocaust survivors and their children in late 1960s Antwerp, their direct confrontations with their memories of the Holocaust, and character development. The film shows us many examples of the legacy of the Holocaust as it is passed through the children of survivors, and how it continues to affect their daily lives. The audience understands the intentions through depictions of muteness and the necessity to remember.
When I say the word Holocaust, what do you think of? Is it millions of Jews in a concentration camp? Or Adolf Hitler in his Nazi uniform? Those are both very easy to imagine, however, I believe that the Holocaust is a very important learning experience for middle school and high school students, and we as students would be at a loss without the opportunities involved with this issue. Learning about the Holocaust will give the students awareness of many issues, and give them the maturity needed to make the world a better place.
The holocaust had a major effect on Judaism as a whole. This conflict between tragedy and faith is not new. Jewish history shows us that the jewish people have undergone the most terrible persecutions and genocide at the hands of many oppressors. Whether it be about the pogroms, crusades, destruction of the Temples, the jewish people have been at the brunt of the most terrible atrocities, and yet this does not shake their faith,Anti-Semitism was nothing new. This became even more evident with the unmasking of the holocaust.The philosophical question of “Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?” applies just as much to the seemingly useless suffering of an individual as to that of six million individuals. If it could be dealt with on an individual basis before the Holocaust, why couldn 't it be dealt with in the same way afterwards? The difference is one of quantity, but the quality of the question remains the same.
Learning about the Holocaust is important because it is a big part of world history. It teaches us about the traumatic events of World War II (WWII). It also shows us how people suffered, starved, and even died. Another thing it shows us is what events can occur when there is an abuse of power. The word Holocaust means, "sacrifice by fire".
The tragic events that occurred during world war two and the holocaust were not only horrific but also morally wrong. The Jewish culture was targeted for mass genocide, by the hand of a mad-man bent on world domination, and the only way to prevent another incident like this from happening again, is to thoroughly educate the public. The actions and events that Hitler and his followers proposed not only helped the world realize the extent of his destruction but also how horrible it would be if the events were to happen again. The aftermath of the war and holocaust left half of Europe in ruins, and more than six million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Africans dead, not including
The holocaust was a very tragic time. The meaning of holocaust is “ burned on the alter”. The holocaust happened in 1945. And was located in Europe. During the holocaust many innocent lives were taken. The word holocaust have taken a very new and terrible meaning. The murder of 6 million European jews.
I should be picked to got to this event because, I have always been looking forward to meeting someone who survived the Holocaust, I want to learn more about the holocaust, I could see through her eyes how this changed everything for the jewish, and her family. I will start by talking about how I want to learn about the Holocaust more and what a better way to do so, then a survivor of the event.The speaker’s life was drastically changed when she was very little and I would want to know if at any moment when she was little did she ever want to run away then be in the camp.
I believe that in this life we live, we all need to be treated with equal respect and kindness- no matter the race, gender, religion, or even species. We all deserve the same treatment. There are many current events and there has been many events throughout history that prove that there is still discrimination against people that don’t always fit into the ‘normal’ category. Some may even be killed for what they can’t control, like the color of their skin or what they believe in.
Six million plus human beings were eradicated from this world, from one major event that only lasted approximately six years. This event was known as the Holocaust. Nazi Germany, through Hitler’s racial ideology, committed one of the most horrific atrocities known to man. The Holocaust spawned a word that should have never been created, genocide. Mass murder or genocide happens and the world needs to learn about it and its effects. That is why Holocaust education is so important because six million people were brutally murdered, and they can not be forgotten and cast to the side, genocides still happen today that could easily be prevented if people would simply look at the past and learn from its mistakes, also it teaches us about the complexities of the human race and about morality and human behavior including racism.