Feng-Shan Ho
‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Jacob Hayden
Feng-Shan Ho means ‘Phoenix of the Mountain’. Ho was born on the 10th of September, 1901 in rural Yiyang – in the Hunan province of China. He was raised in a missionary asylum with his three sisters, following his father’s death when he was 7. After his education at Munich University, in 1926, he received a Ph.D. in political economics. In 1937, Ho was appointed the first secretary to the Chinese Legation (Embassy) in Vienna, Austria.
In March 1938, Nazi Germany invaded Austria. A month after this event came an eruption of anti-Semitism that was the continuation of the Shoah (the Holocaust), meaning thousands of Austrian Jews would be sent to concentration camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald. There was a high demand on visas by Austrian Jews wishing to escape to other countries to avoid being sent to concentration camps. Other embassies had denied Jews the right to leave the country, not wanting to anger the Nazis that now controlled Austria.
Ho is best known as a man with a ‘compassionate heart’. His immediate reaction to...
There are little to no direct accounts of how individuals’ lives were a couple thousand years ago in Ancient China. With a wealth of information on the rise, decline, and fall of empires, Michael Loewe, a sinologist who specializes in oriental studies and theology, writes an imaginary story about a hero named Bing set around 70 BCE. Bing: From Farmer’s Son to Magistrate in Han China is Loewe’s fictional portrait of life during the Han Empire. It is by no means a comprehensive historical account of Han times, in fact, it was written with those readers who are not familiar with Chinese in mind, however through the life of Bing we can gage how the lives of laborers, those involved in military service, merchants, and government officials might
Jewish citizens and families are being sent to these camps, held there forced to do work. They are put in chambers where multiple people, large groups and families are gassed with Zyklon B, and are left for dead. Nazis are sent to kidnap Jewish people right out of their houses to send them to these camps. Others were also just shot and killed on the spot. The jewish people tried to resist, but it is difficult with lack of weapons and resources. Hitler was trying to gain power and land from this genocide. He thought that if he took over the world he could be the most powerful person. He also wanted revenge, he was angry about the outcome of WWI and this sparked his interest to get back at his
Ah Xian born in Beijing in 1960 left china following the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, also known as tank man incident, and moved to Sydney Australia. Having moved from his native country, Ah Xian wanted his work to represent that “cultural identity is permanent and no matter what other places and influences one
The Dachau concentration camp originally held political prisoners, but was made larger to incorporate forced labor and the extermination of the Jewish people. In November 1938, the prohibitive measures against German Jews that had been instituted since Hitler came to power took a violent and deadly turn during “Kristallnacht” (“Crystal Night” or “Night of
The Holocaust or the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew meaning ‘the day of the Holocaust and heroism’ refers to the period of time from approximately January 30,1933, when Adolf Hitler became the legal official of Germany, to May 8,1945. After the war was over in Europe, the Jews in Europe were being forced to endure the horrifying persecution that ultimately led to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews with about 1.5 million of them being children as well as the demolition of 5,000 Jewish communities.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.”
Though many Jews were able to emigrate out of Germany before further persecution took place, it was substantially difficult for every Jew to escape the impending danger that was looming large in both Nazi Germany and Austria. Reasons for emigration being very difficult included the reluctance of Jews to move when they had lived in Germany all their lives, and had generations of family members who have all been brought up in Germany, and some who had even served for Germany during the First World War. The prospect of leaving family behind was too much to fathom for Jews, as some Jews were married to non-Jewish women, and considered themselves more German rather than Jewish. This essay will however focus on a variety of factors which include economic problems faced by Jews even before the Anschluss was introduced in 1938, immigration restrictions set out acutely for Jewish immigrants by Western countries such as Britain and the United States in particular, and the role Anti-Semitism played throughout the world during this time period, that prevented and severely halted a majority of Jews to emigrate out of Nazi Germany and Austria, after the Anschluss and up until the outbreak of the Second World War.
First concentration camp opened at Dachau in March 1933.More Than 6 million Jews were murder by Germans during the Second World War. Although the anti-Semitism did not begin with Hitler. Anti-Semitism began way after the holocaust it started back in the ancient world by the Romans. They destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and force Jew to leave Palestine. In the Holocaust many Jewish were sent to camps were there clothe, hair and their belongings were taken away. They would suffer massive abused and cruelty. 12,000 Jews were killed each day. Babies were use as targets and were sexually abuse. Making it impossible to
The two essays “On Compassion” and “This is Water” by Barbara Ascher and David Wallace argue their different viewpoints on both compassion and empathy. While Ascher simply argues that compassion is not a simple character trait but more so a skill acquired overtime; Wallace tries to convince his audience that humans are preprogramed to be motivated by their own selfish desires and must reprogram themselves to think out of sympathy and concern for others. Barbara Ascher’s, essay, “On Compassion,” compels the audience to interpret the compassion and empathy with their underlying definitions. Ascher states “I don’t believe that one is born compassionate. Compassion is not a character trait like a sunny disposition.
The Holocaust started in 1939. In that time period the Germans and the Allied Forces were in war. When they were in war the Germans took all Jews (except the ones in hiding) to multiple concentration camps and death camps. When they were sent to concentration camps they were ordered to take off all their jewelry, gold teeth and clothes. They were provided with stripped pajamas with numbers on them so they can be recognized by their number and not by their names. They were also tattooed on their left forearm with the same number that was on their stripped pajamas. Everybody’s head had to get shaved BALD. After everybody got to get concentration camps they were forced to go into the hard labor imme...
From November 1940 onwards a new regulation against Jews was issued by the Nazis which restricted them from emigrating from Nazi-occupied Europe. By 1942 the emigration of Jews was completely impossible, which made the rescue more difficult for the allies because they were under Nazi jurisdiction.
It was becoming apparent that the German front was beginning to fall and the Nazi’s used this as a catalyst to step up the genocide and wipe out the people and destroy the camps so as to remove potential evidence of their heinous crimes against the Jews.
Jews were constantly persecuted before the Holocaust because they were deemed racially inferior. During the 1930’s, the Nazis sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps. Hitler wanted to
Sit, Tony. "The Life of Empress Cixi” (from Issue 10 of the China in Focus Magazine). Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU), 2001. .
I, Ruby Seymour, have read the book of Romans in its entirety twice. Righteousness: First off, I have to admit I don’t think I can adequately explain righteousness according to God. However, good for me, that I have the Holy Bible to read and learn from. “Righteousness” basically means “rightness.” The earliest English versions of the Bible that I could find, used the word, “right wiseness.”