Courage Essay
Olivia Ilas
Mrs. Sowers
Period 2/English 8h
2/13/14
Courage Essay
When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms
Shivering in the cold, dusty wind, begging for food, begging for life. Seeing people who she thought she knew, but now treating her like she is a piece of dirt, not knowing what she did wrong. This is the everyday life of a Jewish girl during the holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide, which is any violent crime committed against a specific group with the intent of destroying the group. The Holocaust was the first major genocide that caught people’s attention.
There were nine million Jews in Germany of 1933; three million remained in 1945 after the
Holocaust. It all started when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 and created his Nazi
Party, the National Socialist German Workers Part (“Glossary”). He wanted the “perfect race” which was blonde haired, blue eyed Germans. Hitler even broke his own law he was a brown haired, brown eyed German. He first targeted the Jews; to be classified as a Jew, they would have had at least three to four Jewish grandparents. After being sent to a concentration camp, also known as a death camp, the Jews were branded with a number to track each Jew and to remind them and everybody else that they weren’t people but things (“Garret Shyrock”). The effort to rescue or provide shelter/food to a Jew was risky, and could end in death as well. The number of people who tried to help ranged from a single person to a community (“United States memorial Museum”). In Markus Zusak’s historical fiction novel,
The Book Thief,
Hans
Hubermann hides a young Jew, Max Vandenburg, inside his basement for over two years during the worst of the Holocaust. The Hubermann family included Hans’s wife Rosa and their foster child Liesel. Like Germany, Rwanda had a similar time of genocide in Africa. The Belgians in
Rwanda preferred the Tutsis, who they felt were more European like, but when the Belgians left,
Mrs. Sowers
Period 2/English 8h
2/13/14
Courage Essay
When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms
Shivering in the cold, dusty wind, begging for food, begging for life. Seeing people who she thought she knew, but now treating her like she is a piece of dirt, not knowing what she did wrong. This is the everyday life of a Jewish girl during the holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide, which is any violent crime committed against a specific group with the intent of destroying the group. The Holocaust was the first major genocide that caught people’s attention.
There were nine million Jews in Germany of 1933; three million remained in 1945 after the
Holocaust. It all started when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 and created his Nazi
Party, the National Socialist German Workers Part (“Glossary”). He wanted the “perfect race” which was blonde haired, blue eyed Germans. Hitler even broke his own law he was a brown haired, brown eyed German. He first targeted the Jews; to be classified as a Jew, they would have had at least three to four Jewish grandparents. After being sent to a concentration camp, also known as a death camp, the Jews were branded with a number to track each Jew and to remind them and everybody else that they weren’t people but things (“Garret Shyrock”). The effort to rescue or provide shelter/food to a Jew was risky, and could end in death as well. The number of people who tried to help ranged from a single person to a community (“United States memorial Museum”). In Markus Zusak’s historical fiction novel,
The Book Thief,
Hans
Hubermann hides a young Jew, Max Vandenburg, inside his basement for over two years during the worst of the Holocaust. The Hubermann family included Hans’s wife Rosa and their foster child Liesel. Like Germany, Rwanda had a similar time of genocide in Africa. The Belgians in
Rwanda preferred the Tutsis, who they felt were more European like, but when the Belgians left,