The Holocaust is remembered as the period in which the mass annihilation of the Jewish community happened across Europe. Nazi propaganda widely promoted antisemitic views, the superiority of the “Aryan race,” and the persecution of those deemed “inferior” or “useless.” Although Jews were the most...
Having grown up in Europe my entire life, I had a close connection with the lecture that was given by Ellie Shapiro. The connection she showed to have with the Holocaust and the music which was played or influenced during this period was rather emotional....
In 1973, Art Spiegelman wrote a graphic novel series entitled Maus. The graphic novels are based on World War II and The Holocaust, a war in which his family, being of Polish descent and Jewish, was greatly harmed and nearly destroyed. Spiegelman changed the names...
Introduction The genesis of a tragic event that would reshape the course of history occurred on September 1st, 1939, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany, initiated the invasion of Poland. Hitler’s vision centered around the creation of a purportedly superior Aryan race, a notion...
Introduction The film, Schindler’s List, is a very valuable source in understanding the Holocaust. It played a pivotal role in educating audiences about the Holocaust because of its high emotional value, full coverage of the Holocaust chronologically, and its accurate depiction of the Nazi ideology...
The symbol known as the Swastika has rich origins dating to ancient times. Throughout time, it has been used to represent many different things, most of which had positive connotations. Relatively recent events saw the Swastika used in ways that forever changed how most of...
The battle at Dunkirk (1940) was fought on the Western French-German border and the Allies were beginning to lose. When this happened the Nazi forces advanced forcing the allies to retreat to the beach of Dunkirk, the Nazis were going to take their time to...
In the book, “Night” Elie Wiesel tells his story about a young boy that experiences loss, torture, abuse, and dehumanization. Dehumanization is when an individual is lost of the very human qualities that make them who they are, making them inhuman. These unfortunate events will...
Imagine what it would feel like to be thrown into a dungeon awaiting your death. Throughout history, groups of people have been persecuted just for being who they are, or who they are assumed to be. In the 1600’s, witch trials took place in Salem...
The Holocaust itself was an exercise in mass dehumanization and extermination of millions of people. The definition of Dehumanization the process of depriving a person or a group of positive human qualities. There are endless examples of dehumanization throughout world history and throughout Elie Wiesel’s...
Dehumanization may be a psychological method where humans read one another as anything but human without thought. Long conflict strains relationships and makes it troublesome for humans to acknowledge and accept that they are a part of a shared human community. Such conditions typically result...
Introduction: Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Boston University Professor, spoke during Millenium Reading Series in the White House on April, 12 1999. The speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, was given by Elie Wiesel. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, addresses the problems of the...
People choose to ignore Injustice and tragedies, but Elie Wiesel takes a stand to give a speech pointing out how people just look the other way. Giving a speech to people trying to persuade them to take action against inhumane occurrences can be difficult; Elie...
Night is a story by Elie Wiesel that details his life inside the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In Night, the themes about disconnect from religion/faith, the thought of constant hopelessness, family, the will to survive, death and distraught, loss of ego, and the...
Introduction During the Holocaust era, sematic groups were deemed as priority danger to Germany as well as their collaborators, epitomized by the Nazi’s organized, state-sponsored persecution of six million European Jews. Fifty years later, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Elie Wiesel, worked...
Abstract This paper examines the devastating economic, social and political situation in Weimar Republic and the concept of hyperinflation as part of the daily life of the Germans during those times. A movie ‘M’ and a TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’ will be described as examples...
The Weimar Republic was a government in Germany between 1919-1933. During the Weimar Republic period, it shows the aftermath of political failure but also cultural growth that remains present to this day. Germany experienced difficulties after World War I where families suffered high mortality rates,...
Along with its chaotic economic state, The Weimar Republic had many political problems; that is, problems within the government structure, or within the political landscape of the people, which directly removed opposition, or led to the German people’s resentment of the government, which all contributed...
Between 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles condemned Germany to scandalous debt to 1934 when Adolf Hitler became Führer, major changes that greatly impacted citizens’ lives occurred in Germany. Public issues began inserting their way into the private lives of Germans. In his novel Little...