...that, “The Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy.” I drove up to the Holocaust Museum about five minutes after it opened on a Monday morning. The building was very quiet and there were only two people at the exhibit. I was directed by a security guard to pay at the front desk. The ladies behind the desk handed me a device I could use for an audio tour and showed me the first stop and how to use the audio guide. The exhibit was very small and only took up part of the first floor. The first part of the tour shows a timeline of the event before, during, and after the Holocaust, and the number of Jewish people killed during each year was represented by a concrete column. The exhibit really focuses on one specific day of the Holocaust when three different important events have occurred. The next part of the exhibit talks about three brave resistance fighters who freed over 200 people from a cattle car bound for a labor camp. The display showed pictures, and artifacts related to the event. Another part of the museum showed information about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The last event featured was the Bermuda conference. The last part of the exhibition was particularly moving and featured memorials to those either killed or were affected by the Holocaust. Historically, the negative view of the Jewish people by Germans began when the Nazi’s took over Germany in 1933. Hitler launched an all...
Words: 681 - Pages: 3
...Children in Holocaust Six millions innocent people! This can be a large number of innocent people who were killed just because of one selfish person.“Adolph Hitler” who planned to have the white Aryan race dominates the world and Nazi regime under his command start to kill six million Jewish. “HOLOCAUST “the name derived from the Greek word “Holokauston” means ‘whole’ and the kauston means ‘burnt’. Holocaust wiped out almost six millions Jew’s blood from the page of the world (1939-1945). Among all those were killed during the Holocaust, killed and abused about one million children can be one of the most terrible episodes. Children in different ages have a different understanding and recognition of the death, and at the young ages they don’t have any clear understanding about the death. During the Holocaust Hitler (Nazi) did many anti-Semitic policies for killing the children and they put many pressure on Jewish children. Jewish family had many difficulties and dangers...
Words: 1059 - Pages: 5
...Joshua Nkwocha Mr. Jensen Period 6 23 January 2009 A Shameful Blemish On the Face Of Humanity Around the time of the Great Depression, 1939 to 1945, Jewish people in the entire western world, especially in Germany, Poland, and Romania, were tormented and were helpless victims of hatred. Although anti-Semitism was already present at this time, the Holocaust greatly amplified this form of racism. Holocaust is the act of genocide by fire. Elie Wiesel is a survivor who provides living testimony to this time period. He depicts and relays the hardships and brutalities that he and his family faced through his historical non-fiction novel, Night. During the time of the great depression, in Germany, a dictator by the name of Adolf Hitler and his regime began his reign of terror and anti-Semitism, and his attempt to rid the world of the Jewish race. Hitler believed Jewish were scum and blamed them for all the economic problems in Germany. He also wanted to create his idea of the “perfect race”, Aryans. He believed that the “ blue eyed, blonde haired people of that race were the most elite and noble race, and Jews being virtually the opposite of that were unworthy of living. This period is called the Holocaust. Jewish people were affected in many a way by this hatred; politically, economically, intellectually, socially, and culturally. Elie’s father is a shoe maker but a well respected man in the community. In fact, he is the leader, so to speak of their town of Sighet in...
Words: 1396 - Pages: 6
...Wiesel’s Changes of Faith The Holocaust brought about many hardships and created severe adversity for its victims that may have created experiences ultimately too traumatic that transformed their lives for years to come, either through starvation and labor in the concentration camps or execution and incineration in the extermination camps. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the story of himself as a young Jewish boy born in Romania, who in 1944, was forced into ghettos with the rest of the Jewish citizens and later deported, along with his father, to the Nazi’s largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. While living through this day-to-day horrifying basis, Elie begins to live with overwhelming fear and total alienation, as well as his increasing loss of faith on God and whether God is even existent or not for His lack of participation in trying to help the Jews. Although Elie manages to survive his long and frightening journey through both labor and death camps, his faith was never at the high-most air-reaching level as it dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel because of his disturbing experiences in witnessing cremated human beings, executions, and the going through the loss of his entire family. Prior to being deported to the camps, Elie’s faith was extremely high as he was well-established with his studies in mysticism and the cabbala and his great involvement with religion through prayers. Elie is finding a great interest in wanting to...
Words: 1428 - Pages: 6
...Nicholas Sanchez B3 Tears of A People In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, light is shed on the experiences of those in the holocaust but failed to discuss the main focus that readers may miss. [The main focus of the story overall is the degradation of society, and the fall of humanity.] To iterate his point Elie includes all of the haunting and gory aspects of his story into the book. [(One) of the most important aspects showing the degradation of humanity are the differing ways people die.] (One) of the first ways Elie discovers the ways people die is when he hears from the Beedle that the Germans had built crematories. The crematories show the Nazi's torturous and deadly methods. The crematories also show the amount of thought...
Words: 718 - Pages: 3
...What are the beliefs of Judaism? When is their holidays? Where is it located? When did it star? What are the religion symbol? How old is Judaism? Who found Judaism? What does kosher mean? The history of Judaism? Important people such as moses? How many people are jewish? Jewish beliefs on death? What is shivas? What does meinnor mean? Candle What are the beliefs of Judaism? Judaism is a monotheistic faith, which means that Jews believe there is only one God. Is beyond our ability to know the God to the full extend however, God is present in our everyday lives. Each and every Jew follows different method to understand the image of the divine. Some would talk to God through prayers, while others see him through nature. But, at the end each individual's focus is to know him and have a unique relationship with him. When is their holidays? There are many holidays that make up Judaism calendar. Jewish High Holidays which is also called the High Holy Days consist of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that includes the ten days from the beginning of Rosh Hashanah through the completion of Yom Kippur. Other major holidays includes Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah, Chanukkah, Tu B’Shevat, Purim, Pesach, Lag B’Omer, Shavu’ot, and Tisha B’Av. What are the religion symbol? The Menorah is the ancient symbol of Jewish faith and “ner tamid”, which is a lamp or torch that represents the Menorah in the modern times. Menorah is a seven-branched...
Words: 769 - Pages: 4
...be saying to yourselves right now. What’s that word? How do you say it? What is Judaism? Well let us talk about Judaism. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. Just like some of you may have a certain religion such as Christian, Catholic, Baptist, etc. there are others, including children like you, that practice Judaism and are thus Jews or Jewish. Judaism is the first recorded, meaning first written down, faith or religion that believes in only one God. This makes it the oldest religious tradition still in practice today! Slide 1 (bottom section) - Jews believe in a single God who knows everything, is very, very powerful, and is in all places at all times – no one or nothing can hide from Him. Jewish people also believe that God is always kind and that He created the universe and continues to manage it. This God is fair and forgiving and has no human form or representation. Slide 2 - According to traditional Jewish belief, a Covenant, an agreement between God and the Jewish people was made when God gave his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of the Torah. The Torah has 613 commandments from God which are known as “sacred obligations”. In other words these are all the things the Jewish people have to do to make God happy. These are kind of like instructions given by God to the Jewish people that teach them how to act, think, and understand life and death, as well as God’s relationship with them. In all of these 613 commandments...
Words: 4555 - Pages: 19
...Portnoy The West and the World Period 7 5/10/13 In 1935, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s anti-Semitic ideas were gaining strength in many parts of Germany. Many restaurants and department stores displayed signs that forbade Jews from entering, and some areas of Germany banned Jews from using public transportation or public parks. Thousands of Jewish teachers and civil servants had been laid off, national boycotts enforced by paramilitary forces regularly barred Germans from buying from Jewish businesses, and citizens were discouraged from visiting Jewish doctors and lawyers. These actions were intended to cause a mass emigration of Jews from Germany. During the annual Nazi Party Rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, Adolf Hitler passed two new laws, the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. These laws—to be know as the “Nuremberg Laws”-- deprived Jews of German citizenship and many civil rights. Unresolved in the initial Nuremberg Laws were the actual definition of Jews. The first of thirteen supplementary decrees, all designating the biological composition of Jewish blood, was published on November 14, l935, and defined Jews in terms of their lineage. These laws enforced a new morality on Germans that made it acceptable to ostracize, discriminate, and expel Jews from society. According to Hitler, the Nuremberg Laws were just a precursor to other much more degrading decrees. These laws allowed Adolf Hitler to get...
Words: 2091 - Pages: 9
...Psychoanalysis of characters When people think of psychoanalysis, usually one name comes to mind. This would be Sigmund Freud. Freud, along with Carl G. Jung and Alfred Adler, has impacted the history of psychoanalysis. Further, he has influenced the lives of the men and women during the early 1900s. In critical theory today: a user friendly guide, Tyson explains the critical theories of psychoanalysis and Marxism. It’s all about the studies of human behaviors for example, human mind, especially inner experiences, thoughts, feelings, emotions, fantasies, and dreams. I have chosen one book and a movie. In a book, it talks about James, who is a main character of the story. He was really confused about his identity because he was a black and his mother was a white. In a movies, they showed the racism and differences create between students in their childhood. Both of these based on true stories. I would compare these character with Marxism and Freud’s theory. A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother is the autobiography of James McBride. It is also a tribute to his mother. It starts of the narrator James’s mother Ruth, who describes her early life with her family. She was born in Polish Orthodox Jewish family that was immigrant to United States. She had a repressed childhood in Virginia. She was sexually abused as a child from her father. In critical theory today: a user friendly guide, Tyson defines Fear of abandonment—“the unshakable belief that our friends and loved ones are...
Words: 1902 - Pages: 8
...During World War II many events happened such as the Holocaust and of course many important people were involved from Hitler, the president all the way to all the people who suffered in the concentration camps. I will tell you about 5 important people from the Holocaust and their importance, these people are: Adolph Hitler, Elie Wiesel, Sir Nicholas, Winston Churchill and Musolini. The first one I will inform you about is Adolf Hitler, which was the leader of the NAZI group, he was in charge of this group from 1934-1945. Hitler rose to power due to the fact when he came to Germany, it was under a great depression since they had an unstable economy and government, they had to pay reparations to the U.S. and their money value decreased. The people listened to Hitler and brain washed them which helped a lot to make “Germany a better place”. Hitler was the responsible one for the beginning of World War II and The Holocaust. He created a law called “Racial Hygiene” which consisted of a state policy that not everyone was equal and was treated different for their ethnicity, skin color, religion...
Words: 721 - Pages: 3
...Against all odds, oppression, torture, slavery, exile, and genocide the Jewish people defied the world’s intolerance. May 14, 1948 the state of Israel came to life, Golda Meir remembered this bittersweet hope of all Jews, “‘The dream’ had come true, but too late to save those who had perished in the Holocaust” (Hunt, et. al., 932). The year 1882, 66 years from Israel becoming a state, no Jew on earth could have ever imagined this to be true; Leon Pinsker a Ukrainian physician had only hopes of uniting his people let alone the birth of a Jewish State. The document: Leon Pinsker Calls for a Jewish State reflects the Jew’s endless struggle for survival, illustrating the dire importance of staying united, and the greater need to find a land of their own. Since the beginning of western expansion Jews had to fight against resistance in the form of hatred by others who shared the same land. Hatred is a disease, knows no bounds, and can be found in the hearts of all men; strangely however, it seems to prefer Jews. Pinsker writes this hateful intolerance “a fear of the...
Words: 1252 - Pages: 6
...Medias Synagogue By Julie Dawson and Letitia Cosnean The Mihai Eminescu Trust 63 Hillgate Place, London W8 7SS Tel. +44 20 72297618 Romania Str. Cojocarilor nr. 10, Sighisoara 545400 Tel. +4 0265 506024 The Mihai Eminescu Trust UK 63 Hillgate Place, London W8 7SS Tel. +44 20 72297618 with the Ten Commandments. The pediment is flanked by two carved wooden acroteria. The mural paintings along the interior walls depict artistic representations of a menorah, vegetal motifs, lions, Stars of David, the Ten Commandments and a fortress, probably a romantic depiction of Jerusalem. During Ceauşescu’s dictatorship, the Trust helped dissidents keep in touch with western academic thought; and by alerting the world to his plan to bulldoze Romania’s rural architecture, it played a part in saving hundreds of villages from destruction. After his death, the Trust turned its attention to the country’s cultural revival and rural regeneration. The Trust concentrates on the Saxon villages of Transylvania, a special case because of the age and richness of their past and the emergency caused by the mass emigration of the Saxon inhabitants to Germany in 1990, leading to the abandonment of many of their houses and a loss of awareness of the value of their heritage. These villages – farmers’ houses and barns built around fortified churches, substantially unchanged since the Middle Ages – lie in spectacularly beautiful surroundings, rich in wild flowers. Wolves, bears and wild boar roam...
Words: 3094 - Pages: 13
...The Importance of Interacting with People of Other Faiths “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This was one of the important things I learned from Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. I surpringsly have never heard of this verse from the Hebrew bible or from any bible for that matter. I myself am not very religious, but I thoroughly enjoyed what Rabbi Joseph Telushkin had to say during his lecture. Many of us have are too modest to ever fully accept a compliment that we receive. I find myself doing this quite often. It’s very hard for me to understand that people do actually enjoy my company or admire what I do sometimes. I do know that I could work on my self-esteem, but at the same I feel almost embarrassed to really love myself because then I’m seen as too self -absorbed and I would never want to be seen as that kind of person. I learned that sometimes you have to love yourself as much as you adore or love those around you. It’s appropriate to give yourself the credit you deserve. If you truly do something good, be proud of what you did. Take pride in it because although it’s important for you to know your weaknesses, it’s important to know your strengths as well because you have to have pride in what you do well in. Ultimately, you will grow from those strengths. If you constantly demoralize yourself or focus on your weaknesses all the time, you will never be motivated to better yourself, you will limit yourself, and give up. Rabbi Joseph really made me think about the fact that...
Words: 446 - Pages: 2
...Contemporary Issues in Western Religions LaKeisha Davenport Rel/134 University of Phoenix Sammy Frailey July 26, 2010 Contemporary Issues in Western Religions One of the ways to understand people of a diverse society is to understand their religious beliefs and practices. In the western world there are three major religions. These religions are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Each of these religions is monotheistic and is practiced by more than half the people in the world. Monotheistic religion is the belief in one God. Although Judaism, Christianity and Islam religious practices are each monotheistic, some of the religious traditions are different. Judaism believes there is one God who cannot be made up of parts; Islam embraces an immaterial, invisible God, one to be intensely feared in His omnipotence; Christians hold fast to the trinity of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The differences mentioned are but a few of the differences between the three religions that could very well be reasons for some of the struggles believers faced during the early biblical days. To better the religious traditions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, one must study the early traditions and struggles of each religion. The writers of this paper will discuss the similarities, differences, theological and historical connections between the three religions. Historical Connections Judaism is historically connected to Christianity through Jesus...
Words: 2554 - Pages: 11
...In the 1930’s, a wave of Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai to escape the horrors of an impending Holocaust. Although at first comfortably ensconced in the city the Japanese army soon forced the Jewish community to live in a ghetto. In an effort to transplant and sustain their culture in Shanghai, the Jewish population, mostly from Central Europe, established their own businesses in the area. This area eventually became “Little Vienna” because it appeared to be an Austrian-style street in the Jewish ghetto. After World War II, most of the Jews emigrated from Shanghai and soon after “Little Vienna” ceased to exist. In recent years, the opening of the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum and the influx of immigrants into the city have led to a rebirth...
Words: 2374 - Pages: 10
