Ghettos, concentration camps, starvation, and deaths. These people were put through everything during this terrible, grueling time. The Nazi forces were overtaking the people day by day throughout Europe. In the ghettos and concentration camps either killers or starvation took the lives of many innocent people. These people did not deserve the treatment they received in such short notice. During the Holocaust the Jewish people should have fought back against the nasty, intolerable Nazis. Opposing views claim that people during the Holocaust should of gone with the flow and should of let the Nazis push them around. Others believe that if the victims would of went with the flow they would have mixed in; however, they would have to do what the Nazis told them to do. Some commodities they were told to do included manual labor, walking the death marches, and to go without eating for days. Even though these people had to do these things, they would have blended in, and it would of been less likely for the people to get hurt or killed by the terrible Nazis. Believing that you could sit back and not deal with the situation is not the way to stand up for yourself. The people should have fought back and fought back powerfully! The Nazi force was breaking the law throughout this whole tragic experience. Torturing these people was against the law, and the law should not have been broken. The Jewish people should have fought back to save themselves and seize this bad practice. Many of the people did not know what to do when someone would show up at their house one beautiful day to take them away; however, this would never have happened if the law had been enforced. The people should have argued this situation. They have their own rights and... ... middle of paper ... ...these people had was heart-shattering. Children in some cases were alone and did not know what to do without their family. Dying to save the lives of others could have been the best thing you would have done for yourself and these people; someone could of been in this situation and would of been that wonderful hero. Many people in this rough position stayed tough and unbreakable, but others could not stand the pressure and crumbled to pieces. The abandoned children were sometimes taken in by other families, so they would have a home to live in and a family to comfort them. Standing up for yourself and fighting back would show that these people were not backing down to anyone, especially the Nazis, who were destroying them and their meanings. People that took part in the uncontrolled Holocaust should have fought back to win their freedom and dignity from the Nazis.
The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn't. People must find out as much as possible about it so history won't repeat itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were persecuted because of what? Nothing besides the fact that they were Jewish. Most Jews living in Germany, Austria, Poland, France or practically anywhere else in Europe were sent to concentration camps. There they were either tortured or killed.
The point of view of a rescuer during the Holocaust had a whole different perspective then the Nazi’s or people who agreed with it. The Holocaust brought devastation to many people.
...ey survived. These were usually young girls. That disabled them for life and your letting the people that did this to them walk off with a short sentence to jail and then they can go off and live their lives again? This is plenty justified. These people had to stand for hours on end, threatened by dogs and whips, they were hungry and thirsty beyond belief, their families were taken from them, and their hope was taken from them. The Nazis definitely got what they had coming to them.
Through selection at the extermination camps, the Nazis forced children to be separated from their relatives which destroyed the basic unit of society, the family. Because children were taken to different barracks or camps, they had to fend for themselves. In the book A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal, the author describes the relief he felt when reunited with his mother after the War.
Extremely hostile environments forced people to make fast decisions that could have been right or wrong. In some, their conscious came through, but in others their bodies needs were greater than their minds. Everyone is different and everyone deals with devastation in their own way. Although many people made decisions during the Holocaust and in present day that they may regret or be proud of now, they should never have been put through this experience just because of their religion or any other beliefs they may
The delineation of human life is perceiving existence through resolute contrasts. The difference between day and night is defined by an absolute line of division. For the Jewish culture in the twentieth century, the dissimilarity between life and death is bisected by a definitive line - the Holocaust. Accounts of life during the genocide of the Jewish culture emerged from within the considerable array of Holocaust survivors, among of which are Elie Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge in the main concepts in each work; Wiesel and Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their survivals. Aside from the themes, various aspects, including perception, structure, organization, and flow of arguments in each work, also contrast from one another. Although both Night and The Sunflower are recollections of the persistence of life during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and Simon Wiesenthal focus on different aspects of their existence during the atrocity in their corresponding works.
In the Holocaust millions of Jews lost their lives because of simply who they were. Many however hid and survived this dark event in history. It was the year 1933 and WW11 roared on, some saw it as a war against countries but eventually everything dark and ugly came to the light. Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany and had obtained great popularity with the German people. While beginning to attack nations he was also trying to destroy all Jews in a horrific mass genocide. Creating concentration camps and taking all that the Jews owned he began to round up these human beings as if they were cattle. The stories account for them as being kidnapped at midnight to being tricked into going to their death thinking they were going for a better life. Not all stories ended in despair, there were many who managed to outsmart the Nazis and their allies. Many hid from them, blended in or fled to safe countries. Even under all the pain and horror many prevailed and won the prize of life. People, no matter who will fight to live no matter what the circumstance. These are the stories of those fortunate survivors who hid, fled, lived to tell their perilous account of the holocaust.
What does the term “propaganda” say, what does one think of, when approached with this term? Would one think it was of a positive of negative connotation? What about the association it had with the holocaust, would it then be considered negative? Did the Nazis use the role of propaganda overtly?
The persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany was described as a cruel act of racism led to the mass murder of the Jews. Ilse Koehn experienced all of this first hand as a little girl in Berlin, Germany. She was classified a Mischling, second degree meaning she had a jewish heritage in her family line. The holocaust was a matter of defining the issue of race but it was also mixed with nationalism and businessman getting rid of Jewish competitors. Ilse Koehn was one of the many people affected by the holocaust during World War II she writes about it in her wonderful memoir called, “Mischlings, Second Degree” it tells how the life of people in germany at the time were treated, it impacts us now today with racism and learning about it in schools.
The non Jews who did not want to fight back almost all of them were too scared to do anything. They were afraid that they would lose their freedom. They also did not want to be sent into the concentration camp too. They did not want to be tortured either so none of the non Jews stood up ; all of the reasons were too scary to them that they did not want to risk it. They were too terrified to do what was right there was too much risk. Many non Jews went into hiding; however, everybody else did to.
The Holocaust All throughout history, Jews have been persecuted. The Jews were blamed for killing Jesus and the idea of anti- Semitism has been around centuries before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Adolf Hitler led the Nazis to power in 1933 promising to make Germany powerful and respected by the rest of the world. He promised to fight Communism, to find jobs for the six million unemployed workers in Germany, to restore law and order, and to get rid of the “Jewish influence” in Germany. Hitler’s speeches were full of hatred for the Jews and this encouraged his followers to attack Jewish people.
The Nazi’s perpetrated many horrors during the Holocaust. They enacted many cruel laws. They brainwashed millions into foolishly following them and believing their every word using deceitful propaganda tactics. They forced many to suffer doing embarrassing jobs and to live in crowded ghettos. They created mobile killing squads to exterminate their enemies.
The other opposing views about not fighting back are that some people could have made it out alive without risking their own lives. Most of the non-Jewish people let the Holocaust happen without thinking how bad it was that thousands of innocent people were dying every day. The Jewish people who didn’t fight back might have made it alive if you would have listened to what the Nazis had told you what to do when you were in their camps. But it all depends on which camp you are at, and the type of people who are controlling the camps if they are nice to you or not because some people that were in those camps could care less about killing innocent people. Most of the people who were in the camps feared the Nazis so they were scared that if they would fight back that they would kill them; therefore, most people just listen to what the Nazis said. If the Jewish people fought back it would have risked their lives even more than it already was. Most of the people that were in the camps had a fear of the Nazis and were afraid to d...