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    Compare and Contrast Essay                                        By: Ayne Hassan    Jews suffered countless amounts of atrocities throughout the history of time. Both stories have themes in which man is evil to man, the will of the main character to survive and overcome evil is present, and the ability of some people to still be compassionate to each other during these times of evil. The book Maus, and the movie “The Pianist,” share many thematic similarities. In Maus the main character

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    Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto held over 400,000 Jews, starving them and ravaging them with disease. After two years of persecuting and executing Jews, an uprising ended the reign of terror, killing hundreds of thousands of rebellious prisoners and leaving the rest to be sent to other death camps. The story of the Warsaw Ghetto gave many, many Jews hope that they could indeed fight back against Hitler and survive. The city of Warsaw, Poland, was flourishing in Jewish population and culture. It

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    Furthermore, certain people such as Catholics, Christians and a few extraordinary people became confidants for the Jewish community, lying to save Jews from death. The film covers the emotions of children who survived, their lives inside the walled ghetto and to escaping the gas terrifying chambers of the German concentration camp. This film shows how the lie can be used for positive outcomes from superb people in certain ways. To start, the feelings that are on display in the film raises the question

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    The Warsaw Ghettos was an exceptionally horrible time in the Jewish History, aside from the concentration camps. This all happened when Hitler came into power, he was furious about the Jews and hated them, to this date he has killed over 6 million Jews and countless other races. Many of the other Jews were stuffed into railroad carts and shipped to the Treblinka death camp or the Ghettos. The Warsaw Ghettos shows how they created a defence unit, an offensive unit, and how it all went down. The Ghettos

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    Survivor Summary The Survivor by Terrence Des Pres discusses how prisoners survived in poor living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto. He defines a survivor as, “…any man or women striving to keep life and spirit intact – not only those who returned, but the hundreds of thousands who stayed alive sometimes for years, only to die at the last minute.” He describes the experience in the Ghetto where it was possible to survive with the collective efforts of others, which is the opposite of how Primo Levi described

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    Warsaw ghetto uprising commenced after German troops and the police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants on 19th July 1943. By May 16th, the uprising had been crushed and the ghetto lay in ruins. The surviving ghetto residents were deported to killings camp or concentration camps. This lead to a number of Jewish clandestine self-defense organizations to be formed called Jewish combat organization. Christopher Browning utilizes the loaded evidence of the nearly 300 survivors of Starachowice

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    social worker in 1939, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto and was able to give assisstance to the people in need. Irena’s worked brought her to join Zegota, a council to aid Jews (Biography.com Editors). Irena was chosen to find a way to take the Jewish children from Warsaw with a flase advertisment of medicine for the Jewish. A secret removal of 2,500 children was organized with the help of orphanages, convents, and families outside of the Ghetto. The hardest task of the secret removal was to

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    Over 6,000,000 died and only 900,000 survived. The Holocaust is one of the darkest moments in world history. Hitler was a German dictator who wanted to create a supreme race; blue eyes and blonde hair were some of the requirements. Because the majority of Jews did not fit that description, they were targeted. Thousands of them were sent to concentration camps to die, while others were arrested and killed. In an attempt to save as many lives as possible, many people hid Jewish refugees during the

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    I was upon my Mother’s shoulder when the door busted and our neighbor came in screaming his lungs out “Jewish families must report to the train assigned to us by tomorrow afternoon! Were going to be transported to the Warsaw Ghetto!” Everyone in the household froze like statues. I turned and stared to my father as if he would have something to say according to this devastating news. Nothing came out of his mouth until everyone’s face turned to him. He choked on his words as he said “I… don’t know

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    Conflicts have been around since the beginning of time. It was shown in biblical times and even in today's society conflict is something that humans need to learn to resolve in the best way possible. Sophie Scholl underwent peer pressure yet maintained who she was throughout facing conflict. Anne Frank, another excellent example, kept a positive attitude despite facing discrimination and prejudice every day. The best way to respond to a conflict has been an important topic of debate for a long time

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