...Schindler’s List Essay Oskar Schindler would never have been anyone’s ideal savior, especially for the Jewish community. He was an open member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a gambler, an alcoholic, and an extremely money hungry man, but insight of all of this he was successfully able to rescue over twelve hundred Jewish men and women from death. Schindler was a very tall and handsome man. Needless to say, he was adored by all the young women he met eyes with. However, Schindler fell for a beautiful young girl named Emily. After only six weeks of courtship, they were married. Sadly, after only a few months of marriage, Schindler began to heavily abuse alcohol. He also had several affairs resulting in two children out of wedlock. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler’s father left his mother, and she died soon after. Finding himself jobless, Schindler sought work in nearby Poland as a machinery salesman. The saving of the first Schindler Jews began in 1939, when he came to Krakow in the wake of the German invasion. In Krakow, he took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of kitchenware products. In one of the businesses, however, Schindler was merely a trustee. Looking more for his own power, he opened up a small enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. Here, he employed mostly Jewish workers. This in turn saved them from being...
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...purpose and reason. I chose to use a picture of children for the background. The children are there to show the loss of innocence that occurred during the holocaust. Children are viewed as innocent beings and the large group of them here are to represent the large amount of innocent lives taken. They eyes are blacked out on all of the children except one. This is because Elie, the main character, was the only one to come out alive from his family after the holocaust. Everyone he loved died and he was the last one alive. The idea that the child representing him has color still on him is to further explain the idea that he was the last one alive. We usually associate color with liveliness and cheer yet the colors used on the boy were purposely chose to be dull to justify that even though he came out alive, the holocaust still killed apart of him. This is also why some of his image does not have color. The Star of David was incorporated in the corner to say that the main religion in the book was Judaism. The authors name, Elie Wiesel, was put into large font to show that the book is about him. The title was placed underneath and spaced out or elongated. The title is beneath the authors name to show that the story is his and it's not some made up scenario, and the word “night” was elongated to illustrate that the nights during the holocaust were long and painful. Lastly, I found a quote by Elie Wiesel himself and this is just another device used to say that the story is his and it's a personal...
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...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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...Justin Hrabosky Mr. Wojcik WWII Through Film 7 March 2016 Holocaust The Holocaust was an extremely unfortunate and tragic event that was led by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and all of his followers. The Holocaust was the systematic killing of over 6 million Jewish people in Europe, as well as Slavic and homosexual people, with the casualty total reaching up to 11 million. After World War One, Germany was blamed for most of the destruction done across Europe. Because of this, they were forced to compensate for much of the decimation done to many countries. This put them in a state of financial turmoil. However, while the majority of Germans were impoverished, the Jewish population saved their money and were ahead of most people in the classes. This somewhat revived the tradition of anti-Semitism throughout Europe. The disdain for Judaism came to a head when Adolf Hitler rose to power of the Nazi party. “In Germany, Hitler and the Nazis succeeded in segregating the Jews from the rest of the population, despite the fact that German Jews were among the best assimilated in Europe. Jewry was also linked to communism (in ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’), thus making the Nazis capable of presenting the Jews as one the German middle class’s greatest fears.” From 1939 to 1945, Germany began to segregate the Jewish population from the rest of Germany in fenced-off areas called ghettos. Other Jewish people were taken on trains and transported to either death camps or work camps. The...
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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 holocaust is a tragedy that the entire world wished had never happened. In 1982 Thomas Keneally wrote Schindlers Ark which was based on the accounts from a Holocaust survivor. This story was later developed into a screenplay by Steven Zallian later to be a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg made the film to educate those who tried denying that persecution on such a grand scale ever happened. Though filmed in black and white the director chose to highlight a few images in color to draw attention and elicit emotion. The actress who portrayed “the little girl in red” is 24 years old now but the impact the film had on her disturbs her to this day. We are introduced to the girl in the screenplay on page 52; she is described as wearing small red shoes. In the movie the director chose a jacket instead of just the shoes. I think this was merely because it could be viewed easier by the audience. But why do both screenplay and movie use the color red. I believe red was chosen because it is a bold color that stands out but it is also the color of blood. It can be assumed that its significance was chosen to represent that amount of bloodshed during that time. The scene takes place in one of the ghetto’s. The screenplay describes this taking place during dawn. In the movie it appears to be later in the afternoon, but it is the weather that plays a more important role than the time of day. The movie sets the scene during a rainy and dreary day to coincide with the events that...
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...The Holocaust was a mad murder of Jews under the German Nazi rule during 1933-45. The Bangladesh genocide was the deliberate and systematic destruction, in a whole or in a part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different in three different ways; lives lost, ethnic identities, and the effect it had after. The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended May 8th, 1945. The Nazi were the ones responsible for this tragedy. The victims of these concentration camps were, Jews, slaves, ethnic poles of color, disabled or mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Spanish republicans. Anyone who was...
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...Holocaust From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 Jews in Europe were living in fear of their lives. The Holocaust was the cause of 6 million Jews deaths. This was the largest case of genocide in the world. Millions of Jews lost their lives because of their beliefs. The following image shows 10 young people, who were kept in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. When going to the Concentration Camp, they were allowed to take one bag with them. They were forced to wear several layers when they went so they would have the clothing necessary to survive the harsh winter. This image shows the sadness, fear and starvation that they had to go through. This is shown through its use of color, or lack thereof, the people themselves, and the scenery of the Camp...
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...Prime Minister Winston Churchill told listeners about the horrors of World War II: "Whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands–literally scores of thousands—of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German police troops," he said. "We are in the presence of a crime without a name." Did you know Raphael Lemkin created a word to describe the Nazi’s way of killing the Jewish people, by using the ancient Greek word genos, (which means race and tribe) and the word Latin cide, (which means killing)? IT WAS GENOCIDE! Raphael Lemkin created the word Genocide because he lost his family in the Holocaust. Genocide is a mass murder that develop in ten stages: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization,...
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...The Holocaust and how it is portrayed in Night by Elie Wiesel, reveals that not only did the Holocaust kill almost half of the Jewish population, but it almost violated almost all of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many Jews were deported by force out of their countries with no real reason behind it, discriminated for their choice of religion, and were treated as slaves when they were working in the concentration camps. These are examples of how the Holocaust is portrayed in Night, and how it has violated these 3 articles of human rights: articles two, four, and nine. Article two is as states: “You have all these human rights no matter what your race, skin color, social or economic status, birth or nationality.” According to the novel Night, however, Wiesel states on page 26: “The journey has only just begun, and I felt so weak… “Faster! Faster! Get on with you, lazy swine!” yelled the Hungarian police.” This immediately contradicts the human right, similar to a juxtaposition. In this case, Wiesel is being discriminated at, yelled at, and gets called a “lazy swine” due to...
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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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...The Holocaust was the systematic killing of European Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II. When Hitler came into power, Germany turned into a totalitarian government, “The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community” ("Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Web. 20 Mar. 2016). Hitler’s goal for Germany was to create the perfect Aryan race. The Nazis accepted that it was their duty to exterminate the Jews. Hitler’s twisted notion brainwashed German citizens into thinking that it was fine if other people...
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...When the Holocaust started, no one believed it would be as horrid as it was. No one believed the rumors they were hearing until it was happening to them. Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and elderly people went through traumatic experiences and many were murdered in huge masses. The children of the Holocaust and the children of Holocaust survivors, however, suffered more physically and emotionally because they were given away, tortured, left alone, and put through many hardships. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Jews were targeted from the very beginning. Laws were implemented and they had a severe impact on the lives of children. The laws restricted the number of Jewish children that could attend school, it banned children from many public...
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...As my sophomore year comes to an end And I can reflect on how have All the classwork and homework has helped me grow and become a better student.Then I can see in what areas I have grown. I have grown as a student in the area of knowledge because before this semester I didn't really know what happened in the holocaust .Then I didn't really know how it started and why they locked up all the jews and used them like there were slaves,also why the germans tried to exterminate all the jews.Now I know why the holocaust happened beacuse in history class Mr.Dewale taught us everything about the holocaust.He also told us why the holocaust happened.Now I also know the holocaust started because the germans didnt like what the other countries made them have to do after the french revoultion and I learned that the germans treated the jews like they did and locked them up beacause the germans thought that the jews were not a common race that shouldn’t be alive and also because they didnt look how the germans wanted them to look .The germans wanted the jews to look like them with white color skin and blue eyes so the were put in concentration camps and worked and starved to death.Lastly i learned that they were also killed harshly because germans killed jews...
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...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...
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