Series of Quotes ▪ Schopenhaur‚ “The world is my representation.” ▪ 50th Gate Quotes: - "[I]t was not the facts that were held under suspicion‚ but her credibility as a survivor. Unlike my father‚ she could never show her children the scars on her arm; hers were invisible‚ numbered in the days and years of her stolen childhood." - ‘Let their memory be bound up in the bond of life.’ - ‘So always remember it‚ and your children will remember it. They will survive‚ they will
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that he receives. In Night‚ author Elie Wiesel writes about his devotion as a child‚ religious observances‚ and anger towards God to reveal how he is still a believer in the Jewish faith despite all that happen to him. Auschwitz‚ Buchenwald‚ and Treblinka are just a few of the names which evoke nightmares of the Holocaust. The suffering and death at these and other concentration camps were greater than any before endured. Before the Holocaust he had been one of the most devout Jewish children. The
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The Holocaust‚ also known as Shoah‚ was a mass genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany along with collaborators killed about six million Jews. “Holocaust” or the final solution is the word originated from two Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burned or all together‚ “sacrifice by fire.” Historically‚ Holocaust signifies sacrifices offered on the altar. After 1945‚ the word modified to take horrible meaning of mass destruction and loss of life. Owing to the brutal murder
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Adolf Hitler “The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again” –George Santayana Adolf Hitler is known for having the greatest impact on Europe in all of history‚ especially Germany. Although the majority of people look down on him for his mass murder of about 6 million Jews in a short time period‚ his story of influence on a whole country is incredible. He started out as a boy from a little town in Austria with nothing more than a paintbrush and a dream; a dream to become
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The Holocaust The Holocaust is recognized as the most significant tragedy of the modern era. The phenomenon was driven by religious discrimination‚ dictatorship‚ and the general hatred toward Jews by the Nazi party. The term “Nazi” is an acronym for “Nationalsocialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” which means National Socialist German Workers’ Party. It was the only political party thriving in Germany at the time. The mass murder defined the furthest boundaries of evil known to mankind by the
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There are many different views on Jewish resistance during the holocaust. The two main opposing ideas being that there was no resistance from the Jews and the latter being that Jews did resist Nazi rule and in turn their slaughter. The main argument is the question of what is resistance which is the main problem in trying to understand or pin point the historiography of Jewish resistance. In trying to understand the Jewish historiography of resistance‚ this essay will start by defining the different
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Adolf Hitler 1. THE BEGINNING At half past six on the evening of April 20th‚ 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau‚ Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler‚ and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in the local choir. One day he carved a symbol into the bench which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty
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Following the conclusion of World War II‚ Nickolaus Lehner‚ who had once been incarcerated at Dachau‚ settled there after liberation. After some years Lehner visited Auschwitz‚ which bore stark contrast to Dachau; following liberation the barracks and structures at the camp were destroyed‚ leaving behind a barren landscape with only foundations to mark the former locations of the barracks. On the other hand‚ the barracks of Auschwitz still stand and the landscape of the death camp is still dominated
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very young. They started with ghettos in Poland. On March 17‚ 1942‚ the first gassings began at the camp of Belzec‚ near Lublin. After that‚ 5 more mass killing centers were built at camps occupying Poland. These camps included Chelmno‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ Majdanek‚ and the largest above all‚ Auschwitz-Birkenau. From 1942 to 1945‚ Jews from all over Europe were being deported. This included‚ German-controlled territory and countries allied with Germany. During the summer and fall of 1942‚ the biggest
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The main motive of this photograph is essentially a global history of the Jewish people. It is very specific‚ sad and instructive. In order to properly clarify this picture‚ we have to start from the beginning‚ shed light on the history of the Jewish people‚ and pay particular attention to the dark times during the Holocaust‚ and particularly refer to the Jewish understanding of the holiday. Jewish history tells us about how the Jewish people lived from the time when they appeared up to the present
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