...Imagine getting up every morning knowing you would be facing your worst fear, such as being judged on the color of your skin. It’s as if someone was afraid of heights and knew they would be standing on a tall building everyday. Facing your fears is scary. But being pressured into it is even scarier. Being forced into doing something could be harmful or even dangerous to yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was the best option....
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...What if the humiliation and disrespect from the holocaust never went away? What if, to an extent it still lives and breathes like a horrific monster, taking victims and putting them in an inescapable box? Branding them. Hurting them. Killing them. All throughout history discrimination has existed, dividing the human race into percentages, boxes and statistics. During the holocaust, discrimination had a new meaning. Humans were labeled, hurt, killed and treated as sinful, disgusting beings. This still hurts and is effecting people to this day. Alas, somethings will never change. No one is safe, everyone has the ability to discriminate. Hell, everyone does from day one you are given a label, religion, gender etc. It is your job to protect...
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...“We will not be led like sheep to slaughter”. This is a quote said by Abba Kovner in regard to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. According to, Jspace News, Kovner was a Jewish-Hebrew poet who used his voice to shed light on the details of the Holocaust, and he strived to make a difference for those being persecuted. The Holocaust may be the most famous instance of Jewish persecution, but it is not the only occurrence. Throughout history, Jews have been targeted as a popular scapegoat, which has led to their history of extreme persecution. The persecution of the Jews has occurred on many occasions. To start, persecution has always been a huge aspect of the history of Jews. Their persecution has affected the history and the development...
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...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...The Crucible and the Holocaust Deyang Hsu Throughout history, discriminatory accusations and persecutions have alway taken an undeniable role in our lives. No matter the scale of these accusations, they do mold our lives significantly. Similarly, these things can also cost the lives of people, and in a few cases; a really significant amount. The two most memorable crisis of discriminatory accusations which ultimately led to the ruin of a whole group or ethnicity of people are the Salem Witch Trials and The Holocaust. They’re intimately tied with each other; for that the true nature and starting points of them were the same- they all happened accompanied with having scapegoats, discrimination, and they ultimately all ended up in...
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...extreme divisions not only in our country but also our world resulting in prejudice and discrimination. There have been multiple events throughout history in which discrimination lead to widespread death. Prominent examples include the genocides of the Armenians, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and most recently, the Darfur genocide. While it may be hard to imagine that one group of people could find themselves so...
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...When analyzing ordeals such as the Holocaust and slavery, virtuous people often question the thought process of those responsible. However, the racist mindsets that motivated these calamities remain present in today’s world and continue to be disregarded. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, comments on the importance of acknowledging racism in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. He advises, “Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race...that place must become the center of the universe”(n.pag.). If the public overlooks the ramifications of racism, these tribulations will repeat themselves; for that reason, people should feel compelled to prevent segregation. In Night and Of Mice and Men, the characterization of Elie and Crooks demonstrates how racism can induce self-...
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...list of Jewish beliefs is the thirteen principles of faith. Jewish people are very open to other religions and they do not feel as if they are better than anyone else. In their eyes, they feel that as long as a person is staying true to their religion then they will be considered righteous in the eyes of God. Judaism in general promotes equality and that has had a major impact on American culture. They have been in America since the seventeenth century and have always stood behind fighting prejudice and discrimination. Jewish people have been and still are very active participants in civil rights movements, whether for African Americans, women, or even homosexuals. The freedom we have in the United States is what sets us apart from everyone else and Jewish people have been very much involved. The Jewish people have endured a lot of prejudice and discrimination over the years. They were blamed for many problems and their businesses were boycotted. The Holocaust was by far the worst and most painful form of prejudice ever endured. Approximately six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler, which was the leader of the Nazi regime, believed that Jews were inferior to Germans and he basically wanted to get rid of them. He developed this commitment to anti-Semitism throughout his service in World-War I. I never really had any interest in other religions and I really did not know what Judaism was all about. After gathering all this information about...
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...Signature assignment: The Impact of Jewish life in Florida Michael Otero West Coast University Abstract This paper identifies and shows my reflection on the Jewish museum of Florida which exhibits the richness and diversity of Jewish life from 1763 to the present Jews, non-Jews, Florida residents and visitors alike. I examined how Jews during these times grew to develop a dynamic variety of ethnic groups, all seeking to balance the continuity and traditions of their heritage wit the values and customs of a larger society. This paper also explains the central issues rose from the museum and historical purpose it served as the Jewish community made its contributions in Florida. Topics * Identify and explain the central issues raised by the museum. * Formulate a distinct, individual point of view (personal reflection) that engages critically with various perspectives offered by the museum. * Evaluate the evidence that the museum offers for its point of view. * Consider how the site/exhibit/museum uses cultural, political, and (or) historical contexts to present its issues and purposes. * Exhibit your knowledge of how the museum presents and uses cultural worldview frameworks, and also how you use your own knowledge of those frameworks to engage the museum. The Jewish museum of Florida located in Miami was home to congregation Beth Jacob and was the first synagogue on south beach. The synagogue is the building in which congregation meets...
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...deadliest times in history: The Holocaust. Children screaming, wearing striped pajamas, being tutored and treated like you were nothing, seeing some of your closest friends die right in front of you. That’s what it was like for Jews during the Holocaust. You might be thinking we would learn from our mistakes but their are so many other genocides that have happened and are happening right now. Another genocide that has happened is The Stolen Generations. The Holocaust and The Stolen Generations both were terrible genocides in our world, however, these two genocides are different because of their intended goal, the impact in on the world, and how they were ended. The Holocaust was one of the deadliest and cruelest genocides. 6,000,000 Jews were killed during this time. Hitler’s goal for this genocide was for the German Arias to be the only group left. Hitler’s idea of the perfect person was a blond haired, blue- eyed, and tall. Everyone else that didn’t look like this...
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...boards. The tiny amount of bread and water that comes through the slot in the door. This is what it was like for Helmuth in the concentration camp. The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book based on the story of Helmuth´s life during, and leading up to him being in a concentration camp. Throughout the story, Helmuth sees how much Hitler is hiding from them. Nobody is allowed to do anything that’s not German. Also, he starts to see how the Jews are being treated differently. So, Helmuth illegally listens to a different radio station to get the truth and he makes leaflets with his friends, Karl and Rudi, to give people information about what is really going on with the war. Helmuth gets caught and put in a concentration camp where he later is killed. The Holocaust was a very dark time where people were in need of a hero....
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...Elie Wiesel in his memoir recounts about one of the most horrendous and dreadful event in the world history. Anti-Semitism which is the discrimination or prejudice against Jewish people that has been present in world history since the crucifixion of Christ is shown well and clearly in Wiesel’s Night. The first organized campaign against Jewish people had occurred in 1096 during the First Crusade, also known as the First Holocaust. The Holocaust, which was the organized terror and genocide of Jewish people, took place between 1933 and 1945. Hitler's release of his autobiography, Mein Kampf, in the mid-1920s told about his intentions of ridding Germany of its Jewish population. In the beginning, it was proposed that they had to simply leave...
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...people learning how discrimination was affected during the 1940’s. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life was, emotional impact, history how Nazis treated the Jew’s, her showing her bravery, and Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. By Anne famous diary, Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. Since the persecution of Jew’s in the Netherlands was extremely similar to the early persecution of Jew’s in Germany, the Franks could foresee that just like it had for the Jew’s in Germany. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life emotion impact. Anne and her family lived in the secret Annex for three years with 8 people; 1994 all 8 people had been arrested sent to Auschwitz and was all split up. Anne was 13 years old when she and her family went in hiding. That did not stop her from being who she was very strong and brave. She also influenced people about Nazis conquering. She helped teach people that the Holocaust died in that camp, it was a horrible thing. Without her diary the world would never know the intensity of the pain and suffering abused during this time. Anne Frank was born in 1929. She has one sister named Margot Frank and a Mother (Eidth Frank) and Father (Otto Frank). Since the publication of her diary Anne Frank has become a symbol of the children that were murdered in the Holocaust. Anne’s diary is...
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...Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. That is the definition of a problem that has been planted in the earth for centuries and has changed the the human race forever. Over the past 400 years discrimination has become a recurring issue that has caused heartbreak, change, and leadership among the people persevered through it. Slavery and the Holocaust are events in history that have changed humanity forever and share the same principal, and that is why authors just can't help but write about them. Artists, authors, and producers have many different ways to develop a text and establish an idea, but when it comes to getting a point to their...
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...ANNE FRANK “CHILD OF THE HOLOCAUST” Through the eyes of one adolescent girl, this book depicts the feelings of many Jewish people whose lives were forever changed by the Nazi Invasion in the 1940’s during World War II. The Holocaust was an atrocious time in Europe when approximately 6 million Jews were tortured, beaten and murdered as a result of their religion. During this era, the Jewish people were taken to concentration camps and were gassed or burnt to death. For many people, Anne Frank became a symbol of those six million Jewish men, women and especially the children who were murdered by the Nazis as these tragic events unfolded. It is almost impossible to comprehend this number, but the story of Anne Frank makes it possible to understand what the war meant for one of these victims. For my book report, I chose to focus on a life of a young girl named Anne Frank. Anne was a German Jewish girl whose family fled the Nazi Persecution of Jews in Germany in the 1930's, settling in what they hoped was the safety of Amsterdam, Holland. When the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, the terror returned and the Franks went into hiding in a Secret Annex, hidden rooms at the back of Otto Frank's (father) business premises in Amsterdam. Most books about famous people only tell the reader about what the person was like as a child, to help explain what they were like as a grown up. But Anne’s diary is all about her childhood because she never had a chance to grow up. Very few...
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