Adolf Eichmann

The Holocaust was a genocide that occured from 1933-1945, and one of its survivors was Simon Wiesenthal. Wiesenthal was an architect before he was captured by the Nazis. After he was set free, he dedicated his life to finding Nazi war criminals and persecuting them in court. Later on in his life, he wrote a memoir, The Sunflower. It was about one of his many experiences at the Lemberg concentration camp where he got roped in to listening to a dynig SS soldier, Karl. Right before, Wiesenthal leaves

During her talk, Ethel Sternberg said that it made her very happy when students took her memories and stored “it in the back of their heads.” Her words directly relate to Charlotte Delbo’s differentiation between common and deep memory and how this impacts readers of the Holocaust. Common memory refers to works that are a factual retelling and more importantly, leave the reader undisturbed by the work. On the other hand, deep memory leaves an impression and affects the reader in some capacity. One

Life in Concentration Camps Comping experiences in the Holocaust and the psychological impacts The rise of Anti- Semitism was affecting the Jews all over Europe. Jewish towns and neighbourhoods were being confined to ghettos starting in 1939. After living in ghettos for approximately 2 years and living under unbearable conditions, German soldiers rounded up Jews and began to place them on trains, not telling them their destination. The experiences of Elie Wiesel and Irene Fogel Weiss are just

Luck seems to influence many parts of people’s lives. However, without making smart choices at the right time, luck does not happen just by chance. A graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale, is about the author’s father as a Holocaust survivor in the twentieth century. Throughout the whole story of Maus II, the role of resourcefulness in survival is presented repeatedly. When the author’s father, Vladek, was in Auschwitz, there were several moments where he was about to

So is any evil action really ever pointless? The second type of evil, idealistic evil, is when an evil action is committed for what the person believes is the greater good. This type of evil can be seen in the world war two, where Adolf Hitler believed that his actions would benefit the overall community. Furthermore, the third type of evil is what is known as instrumental evil, where an action is committed as a means to an end. Finally, banal evil, is where the ‘evil person’ is considered

In the book The Sunflower written by Simon Wiesenthal, Simon is telling the story about a dying SS soldier named Karl who had asked for forgiveness from a Jew, being Simon, for all his wrongdoings as a Nazi soldier. Although he stayed and listened to him, Simon did not forgive him as he just got up and left without a saying a single word. That moment is stuck on Simon’s mind as he questions at the end of book “What would I have done?” I personally would not have forgiven Karl, because one could

Auschwitz Concentration camp and Death camp was “a place of severe torture”(Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp 2) and has ¨become a symbol of death in the holocaust¨(Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp 1). German people treated the jews bad, jews got terrible jobs also over one million unfortunate people died. Guards and Germans treated Jews like they were not human during the time of the holocaust. The Germans or the Nazi would take Jews out of here homes, schools or out on the streets it

Dr.Death Josef Mengele is known as the angel of death.What did he do to become that and what did he do to get that name and how did everything Josef has done effect his family?Josef Mengele was born on March 16,1911.He was the oldest out of his siblings.When Josef grew up, he got a PhD from the university of Munich in 1935.Before he was a doctor in the Holocaust.Josef joined the military for a short time because Josef got injured and he could not come back to military for that reason.Not too long

On March 6th, 2016 I went to the Museum of Tolerance, a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, is designed to examine racism and prejudice around the world with a strong focus on the history of Holocaust and to fostering tolerance through educational outreach community involvement and social action. First thing I noticed as I walked in the museum was that there were pictures on the wall of holocaust survivors that explains how they fought in their time and the struggles they had to go through. It was

The Cruelty of Dr. Mengele and the Nazis Jenkins 1 Dr. Josef Mengele was a Nazi scientist at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed horrible Experiments on innocent people. One of Dr. Mengele?s main interests was twins. He performed many experiment on them. Most of them involving injecting one twin with lethal chemicals or viruses making them really sick. Then usually died within a few weeks. (Rees 180) One case was with Eva Moses Kor and her twin sister Miriam, who were Jewish concentration