Elie lost his mother, father and younger sister. He did a lot as a kid and loved his family. In Dawn and Day they were connected by how Elie went through very hard times and saw disturbed things in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel lived a hard life. Elie and his family were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II.
Oskar was born and 1908 and died in 1974 at the age of 66. Oskar Schindler redeemed himself from being the Nazi he used to be by transforming into a hero and saving over 1,200 Jews. Oskar Schindler is a hero because of his willingness and desire to help the Jews. Oskar was in no way entitled to saving the Jews, but decided to help them out of the goodness of his heart. Oskar could have taken the extremely easy way out by staying sided with the Nazi’s and taking no risks.
[26] The renunciation document includes the words: "I will in the future esteem the laws of the State, especially in the event of war will I, with weapon in hand, defend the fatherland, and join in every way the community of the people." In a book on Jehovah's Witnesses under the Nazi regime, historian Hans Hesse commented, "Some five thousand Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to concentration camps where they alone were 'voluntary prisoners', so termed because the moment they recanted their views, they could be freed. Some lost their lives in the camps, but few renounced their
Joop Westerweel was born on January 25th 1899 and died on August 11th 1944 in the concentration camp of Vught. He taught and was a pacifist Dutch. His father was a printer and was married to a Christian woman. Joop was confronted as a very young person with the question of the belief and became pacifist convinced. He preached non-violence and was particularly concerned with fate of the Jewish children who fled the Poland and Germany.
Would Benny still have killed himself had he come home this day in age? A 1940´s American/Jewish community? With Mordecai Richler´s literary technique of showing us Benny and his family, their respective actions and reactions, we are let into a world where "a man is a man" and personal problems are exactly that; personal and not for others. The author shows us how this works by describing quite simple things: "The food parcels were always the same, and the letters — coming from Camp Borden and Aldershot and Normandy and Holland — were always the same too. They began — “I hope you are all well and good” — and ended — “don’t worry, all the best to everybody, thank you for the parcel.” " p. 1.
In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau. Each of these Jews was placed on “Schindler’s List.” Schindler and his workforce set up a bogus munitions factory, which sustained them in relative safety until the war ended. After attending a series of trade schools in
The book i have chosen to review is "Four Perfect Pebbles" By Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan. This non-fiction story, told in a third person narrative, is about an average Jewish family in a small town in Germany who have lived a normal, happy life. That is, until the malicious leader that's known as Adolf Hitler comes to power. This man, set out to retaliate against the Jews for reasons that are irrelevant to the well being of Germany and completely untrue , bands together a large group of people who are brain- washed by his propaganda and reasoning, and called them the Nazis. From then on, both the rights of Jewish people and the number of kind-hearted Germans began to deplete.
There is more than just the fence dividing them. They have different backgrounds, different beliefs. Their friendship is one that defied the odds, and lasted despite major differences. For Bruno, a lonely boy recently moved from Berlin, who couldn’t find a friend to play with at “Out-with” and Shmuel, a Jew kid who had to live the terrify life at concentration camp, the friendship between them is the only happiness that had been able to lift their spirit up. That happiness is one thing that ties them together and helps their friendship defy odds.
Schindler’s List Schindler’s List was directed by Steven Spielberg and was released December 15, 1993. Even though he was not a son of a survivor he is related to victims of the Holocaust. Throughout life, he was always testing himself of being Jewish because he was raised as gentile Jew attending gentile schools. When Spielberg first heard of Schindler’s story he jokingly asked if it was true. “I was drawn to his story because of the paradoxical nature of the character,” he said.
Analyzing the Literary Representation of Cultural Identity in novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer The novel, “Everything is Illuminated,” written by Jonathan Safran Foer is the story about a man (Jonathan), who travelled to Ukraine in search of the woman (Augustine) whom his family believes had saved the life of his grandfather from the Nazi. The novel is about the holocaust and it is in its retelling that the cultural identity of the main character was explored through delving of the past while using the present as a backdrop. The journey to the country can be considered as uneventful since Jonathan was not able to meet Augustine, the fabled and mythical woman who helped his grandfather. The novel will not be interesting if not for Jonathan’s meeting with Alexander who preferred to be called Alex who serve as his translator during his journey. The main character toured the countryside looking for Augustine accompanied by Alex and his grandfather who drives them through the country.