Essays on Holocaust

In his book, Ordinary Men, Christopher R. Browning creates a vivid and heart wrenching depiction of the genocide of the Jewish population living in Poland during the 1940’s. Approximately six million Jews were killed throughout the course of the Holocaust. Thousands of Nazi soldiers, under...

Despite the countless award-winning recollections of indifference throughout history, the persecution depicted within Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List against the Jewish people during the Holocaust remains as a significant substantiation of detrimental human oppression. Thomas Keneally’s novel titled Schindler’s List should be the recipient of the...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ continues a literary tradition of the evil of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child. In this book it contrasts the differences of man’s inhumanity to man with man’s capacity to care and love. The main theme however,...

As we all know, the Second World War was a dark time ever, for as though many individuals got executed and frightened throughout the Holocaust. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel mentions the harsh circumstances, he and the others endured and how they were close...

Arek Hersh, born in Sieradz, Poland 1928 was born into a Judaism family along with 4 other siblings. Ten years later, Arek Hersh suffered from the policy “Polenaktion”. Arek Hersh claimed that the invasion of Adolf Hitler completely changed the course of his life. This...

The Holocaust, a dark moment for humanity where over six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed under the rule of the Nazis. This event happened because the Germans believed to were the superior race and were against other religions that wasn’t Christianity. Since...

Ah, you just have to love little boys. They are a lot to handle. Moms stress a little because of their shenanigans. One thing they cannot do is ignore a chance to explore what is around them, not knowing that a little bit of exploring....

Throughout the spring and summer of 1940, the German army expanded Hitler’s empire in Europe, conquering Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European gypsies, were transported to...

The idea of accountability for war crimes has been a major issue in the twentieth century. There have been many trials dealing with the personal responsibility of war criminals. The military tribunal in Tokyo after WWII, the trials to persecute war criminals in the former...

Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is told from the perspective of an unnamed speaker who is recalling his time spent with the Finzi-Contini family prior to the family members’ deaths in the Holocaust. This is an Edenic time, and one that the...

The book Night is a memoir of Elie Wiesel, his family, and other fellow Jewish practicing people’s experiences during the Holocaust. The word Holocaust is used when there is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” – Google...

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List are known as two of the most important films in the 20th century that portray the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. Although made eight years apart, both directors used techniques to present specific aspects of these historical...

Schindler’s List is a historical period drama that takes place and is filmed in Krakow, Poland. The film was directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and is based on the novel written by Australian author, Thomas Keneally. Keneally wrote Schindler’s Ark, which was published in...

Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” and Alain Resnais’ “Night and Fog”, both are a source of light on the horrible event of the Holocaust, but what differentiates one from the other is the fact that they both are portrayed through different styles of film-making, have different...

Art Spiegelman (1986), a creator, author, illustrator, interviewer, and narrator uses the medium of comics to narrate the experiences of his parents, Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, Jews who’d survived the Holocaust. Jumping back and forth between the past and the present, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale...

According to “The World Holocaust Remembrance Center”, over six million Jews were killed by the Nazis at concentration camps during the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945. After looking at Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Art Spiegelman, it is evident to say that both...

The Holocaust in Nazi Germany was, in its most basic roots, the mass murder of millions of the Jewish population within Germany, and all countries conquered by Germany for the duration of World War Two. While the main figures behind this mass execution had no...

By combining words with pictures, graphic novel Maus fully utilizes iconic illustrations to unveil a historical reality of the Holocaust. In field of comics, an icon refers to “any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea”. In Maus, Spiegelman has developed a...

The worst genocide to have occurred in history is to be named The Holocaust. The Holocaust is described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a sacrifice consumed by fire” or “a mass slaughter of people.” (Holocaust) The torture began in the year 1933 and lasted more...

Your Situation Is What You Make Of It “Happiness isn’t’ something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It’s something we make inside ourselves.” This quote from The Hiding Place shows that we are in control of how we feel in any situation. The Hiding Place...

Adolf Hitler was a man who at first seemed ingenious and the perfect example of a leader for a country like Germany. Many people liken him, but after he rose into power he decided to begin the “Final Solution”, or the HOlocaust as we know...

”Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal”. – Irena Sendler. What?? I think she needs to go back and edit that! Man, she saved thousands of lives!! Life as a baby Irena was born on February 15,...

The holocaust was a systematic planned program of genocide to exterminate all Jews. This terrible event was carried out by Hitler, and his allies in the Nazi army during WWII. Approximately 6 million Jews were killed, and about 11 million people deemed undesirable by Hitler...

Destined to Live My book is a true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust. Aurelia Gamzer had lived an idyllic life in Lvov, Poland. Her family was moderately wealthy, and Aurelia was a well behaved child who enjoyed sneaking sweets from her father’s...

“ At the beginning of Night, Wiesel introduces someone he met toward the end of 1941. His name was Moshe, and he became one of the boy’s teachers. They discussed religious topics, and one day they talked about prayer. Wiesel asked Moshe why he prayed,...

The Holocaust was a despicable event that had dimmed the light of societal humanity throughout from the early nineteen thirties to the mid nineteen forties. As the years passed, historians scanned through the remaining evidence from this era in order to reveal the details of...

Humans inflict suffering on other humans and when events are forgotten, they are repeated. In the poem “Shooting Stars,” Carol Ann Duffy tells a shocking story of a female prisoner held by Nazis in a concentration camp around the time of the Holocaust. This is...

In “Maus II” by Art Spiegelman a series of three panels helps to encapsulate a continuous theme throughout the two part story. In these panels Artie and Francoise are in the car driving to assist Artie’s father who has just been left by his second...