Research Paper Ethan Do The Nazis disposed of the Jewish people in many atrocious manners as displayed in the personal reflection of Elie Wisel in his book Night. The ways that the Jews were horrifically murdered was the gassing and shooting. However, those were not the only methods of how the Jews died. They died from a lack of malnutrition and other diseases that were caused by the abhorrent surroundings. There were so many crematoriums during World War II that the Nazis had developed.
Why has the Warsaw Ghetto become such a potent symbol of the Holocaust? (Classic David vs. Goliath) The people in Warsaw stood up for all the Jews throughout Europe who were getting killed. Germans were out to destroy the Jewish people, and the Warsaw ghetto shows that there was still fight in the Jews. Physically the Germans may have been killing the Jews, but the Jewish spirit was shining through despite all that was going on. Symbolizes hope and defiance.
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
Night is a book about Elie Wiesel. He lived through the concentration camps during the Second World War and lived to tell about it. We will discuss how Elie’s story relates to the Jewish identity narrative. Elie’s father and God played a big role in his story, and we will discuss both and find relations between the two. We will also find what was most significant and the purpose of Elie’s writing this book.
As Schindler went to the labor camps he would be witness to many brutal shootings of the innocent and undeserving Jew’s. As the Holocaust worsened, Schindler heard more horrific stories which he could no longer ignore and quickly wrote up a list, with the help of his financial advisor, an intelligent Jew, Itzak Stern. With the names of hundreds of Jews. Schindler took the list to the commandant of the labor camp and demanded ‘what is one worth to you’, ‘tell me, and just tell me, what one is worth!’ This is the major turning point for the character of Schindler as we see he has realized the true value of money and life. This quote shows how he is willing to pay any amount to save the lives of the Jew’s.
The United Nations keeps the peace and allows us to punish those whom cause chaos, terror, and civil unrest. A great example of this would be the Nuremberg Trials. These were a series of trials that resulted in the incarceration of many of the higher ranked Nazi officers as well as the men whom organized, ran, and controlled the concentration camps. Besides the U.N., another positive effect that arose from the Holocaust and World War was the creation of Israel. Israel was originally created after a large amount of land was seized from the Palestinians as a place for the relocation of the escaping Jews from Europe.
The liberation of concentration camps was the last step of the Holocaust. As World War II ended in 1945, Allied Forces went through each concentration camp, letting the imprisoned Jews free. U.S. troops were cheered on by Jewish prisoners, even the ones who were very ill or hungry (Mackay 53). Allied Troops found very horrific things in the camps. They found destroyed gas chambers and crematoriums, very sick and hungry prisoners, and piles of deceased Jews.
One key scene in the film was the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, and using these techniques, Spielberg was successful in effectively making this scene believable and realistic, as well as a memorable event in the film that involved significant symbolism relative to the entire text. The use of lighting in ‘Schindler’s List’ is a significant technique used in the film. It is filmed in black and white, which creates an authentic atmosphere that makes the general film more believable and gives it a sense of timelessness. The black and white also gives the movie an eerie sense of sadness, and symbolizes the distinct racial contrast between German’s and Jews - how the Jews are considered so inferior, and the Germans so superior. The contrast of lighting throughout the movie is particularly significant in the scene of the liquidation of the Jewish Ghetto.
“Children mourned as they watched their relatives and neighbors lined up into thee gas chambers, and watching the corpses pile up into a fire fueled by their own fat.” This is the daily life of the prisoners in the death camps during the Holocaust from 1933 – 1945. For the first time in history Jews were singled out for total annihilation. The Nazis used death camps to torture and kill Jews during the Holocaust. Jews suffered greatly in death camps by gas chambers, starvation, and hard labor. Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps.
The poems "Epitaph" and "The Lynching" are two very similar poems. They both deal with oppression, oral history, slavery, racial prejudice and a cruel act that was done. For both poems the tone is somewhat sad. Both poems also deals with the unjustly death os a man, most likely a slave. The Lynching is about the hanging of a man unjustly and how his body was burnt and left hanging for all to see.