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Do you know what it feels like to be forced into hiding, being taken from your home or family? This is what was happening to the Jews in Europe. As time passed many historical events that occurred outside the annex influenced the moods and the relationships of the characters. Along with the reign of Hitler, Peter VanDaan a 16 year old Jewish boy was forced into hiding with his family and the Franks. With what Hitler, he was able to make Jews hate what they were supposed to love, The Star of David. In the story Anne Frank, it states on page 110, paragraph 96 “He starts to rip off The Star of David” This shows that Hitler used the star of David to brand the Jews. It was a sign of hope to look up to and Hitler took it away. Hitler did this to
The only complaint was about love of her mother. Elli believes her mother does not care for her and that her brother Bubi is the favorite. Soon Jews are targeted. Budi arrived home and the terror begun because Germany invaded Budapest the town he went to school. Forced to wear a bright yellow star on their clothing, Elli refused simply to go out at the first time. She faced embarrassment and shame. But her brother, Budi accepted to wear the star like a badge of honor. In the reality this star is the emblem of humiliation and sign of what Elli and other Jews will be facing in the days to come. Bubi didn’t view the star as humiliation. He took it easy as ridicule pride against
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to live during World War 2? Life during World War 2 was torture if you were jewish, especially if you were a kid. Felix Salingar from Then by Morris Gleitzman and Anne Frank both knew what it was like. Their stories both describe the lives of jewish children hiding from the Nazis, in fear of being taken and killed. Throughout both of their stories, many character traits were discovered about them that show how they are similarly affected by the events in their stories. Anne Frank and Felix Salingar have many similarities, some of which stand out more than others.
World War II was a grave event in the twentieth century that affected millions. Two main concepts World War II is remembered for are the concentration camps and the marches. These marches and camps were deadly to many yet powerful to others. However, to most citizens near camps or marches, they were insignificant and often ignored. In The Book Thief, author Markus Zusak introduces marches and camps similar to Dachau to demonstrate how citizens of nearby communities were oblivious to the suffering in those camps during the Holocaust.
In Night, Elie Wiesel descriptively portrays the Holocaust and the experiences he has in each part of his survival. From the ghettos to the Death March and liberation, Elie Wiesel shares his story of sadness and suffering. Specifically Wiesel speaks about his short experience in the Sighet ghetto, a historically accurate recount illustrating the poor living conditions, the Judenrat and Jewish life in the ghetto as well as the design and purpose of the two Sighet ghettos. Wiesel’s description of the Sighet ghettos demonstrates the similar characteristics between the Sighet ghetto and other ghettos in Germany and in German-annexed territories.
The mood of Night is harder to interpret. Many different responses have occurred in readers after their perusal of this novel. Those that doubt the stories of the holocaust’s reality see Night as lies and propaganda designed to further the myth of the holocaust. Yet, for those people believing in the reality, the feelings proffered by the book are quite different. Many feel outrage at the extent of human maliciousness towards other humans. Others experience pity for the loss of family, friends, and self that is felt by the holocaust victims. Some encounter disgust as the realization occurs that if any one opportunity had been utilized the horror could of been avoided. Those missed moments such as fleeing when first warned by Moshe the Beadle, or unblocking the window when the Hungarian officer had come to warn them, would have saved lives and pain.
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.
Imagine you’re eating dinner with your family on a quiet, normal night in your small town. Suddenly, a seemingly mad man comes to warn your family that millions of people of your race are being slaughtered. He advises that you immediately pack everything you own, and leave the place that has been your home your entire life. You probably wouldn’t take his warning very seriously, would you? Living in the twentieth century it was hard to imagine that such a barbaric act was actually occurring. Not adhering to this warning, however, cost millions of Jews their lives. Night by Elie Wiesel lets us into the minds of the Jews who were victimized, and Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning offers us the point of view of the
Living in Europe during the 1930’s and 1940’s was very a difficult experience, especially if you were Jewish. In 1933, the Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler came to power in the country of Germany. An estimated 11 million people were killed during the holocaust, six million of those, innocent people, were Jewish. Allied Powers conquered Hitler and the Nazi power on May 8, 1945. Primo Levi was one of the men lucky enough to survive the holocaust. Levi was the author of his autobiography, Survival in Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz describes his ten-month journey as a young man surviving the horrible life while in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Janusz Bardach’s powerfully written novel, Man is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag, reflects on his extraordinary story and life changes while being a prisoner in Kolyma, of the soviet regime. While being a prisoner in these concentration camps, the men weren’t treated like normal human beings. For the two men and the rest of the prisoners, the only way they would survive is to adapt into a new and brutal lifestyle and behavior. The stories about their lives are really an eye opener about life and they remind us how we shouldn’t take for granted the beautiful life we have now.
The history of the Jewish people is one fraught with discrimination and persecution. No atrocity the Nazis did to the Jews in the Holocaust was original. In England in 1189, a bloody massacre of the Jews occurred for seemingly no reason. Later, the Fourth Lateran Council under Pope Innocent III required Jews to wear a badge so that all would know their race, and then had them put into walled, locked ghettos, where the Jewish community primarily remained until the middle of the eighteenth century. When the Black Death ravaged Europe in the medieval ages, many Europeans blamed the Jews (Taft 7). Yet, the one thing that could be more appalling than such brutal persecution could only be others’ failure and flat-out refusal to intervene. Such is the case with the non-Axis coutries of World War II; these nations failed miserably in their responsibility to grant basic human rights – even the right of life – to Jewish immigrants prior to World War II.
It has been three years now since the Germans invaded Denmark, and right now it is currently 1943. The Danish people burned down their ships to stop the Germans to use their battleships, and protected their king. The german forces called the Nazi are quickly taking away the Jews. The Jews are in a very hard situation. Some are in hiding in vain, and some are trying to escape to a safe country such as: Sweden, Poland, the United states, and Switzerland, but most are already have been taken away by the nazis to the concentration camp. Even when it seems futile there are some spies trying to resist the Germans and take the Jews to safety.
When the infamous Hitler began his reign in Germany in 1933, 530,000 Jews were settled in his land. In a matter of years the amount of Jews greatly decreased. After World War II, only 15,000 Jews remained. This small population of Jews was a result of inhumane killings and also the fleeing of Jews to surrounding nations for refuge. After the war, emaciated concentration camp inmates and slave laborers turned up in their previous homes.1 Those who had survived had escaped death from epidemics, starvation, sadistic camp guards, and mass murder plants. Others withstood racial persecution while hiding underground or living illegally under assumed identities and were now free to come forth. Among all the survivors, most wished not to return to Germany because the memories were too strong. Also, some become loyal to the new country they had entered. Others feared the Nazis would rise again to power, or that they would not be treated as an equal in their own land. There were a few, though, who felt a duty to return to their home land, Germany, to find closure and to face the reality of the recent years. 2 They felt they could not run anymore. Those survivors wanted to rejoin their national community, and show others who had persecuted them that they could succeed.
This book left me with a deeper sense of the horrors experienced by the Polish people, especially the Jews and the gypsies, at the hands of the Germans, while illustrating the combination of hope and incredible resilience that kept them going.
The Nazi’s at the time did not treat jewish people like normal human beings whatsoever. And in the book “Annexed”, they abruptly came into the Annex where the two families were hiding and immediately took over by coming in with guns and giving commands which included obvious consequences if you didn’t obey. And Peter and Anne’s families did just what they said because they were scared of them and hopeless. “‘You!’ he says to Mr. Frank. ‘Show me where you keep your jewelry and money!’ Mr. Frank points” (270). This is an example of how Jews were marginalized. Otto Frank doing exactly what he is told. He didn’t even argue or fight back. They didn’t choose to fight back because they were fearful, had a lack of weaponry , and overwhelming dominance and power the Nazi’s brought on heavily is what caused the group in the Annex to obey and have their lives be taken
The novel “Once” by Morris Gleitzman takes place in Poland in the time of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the time when Hitler’s Nazis and people who supported them executed 6 million Jews (⅔ of all the Jews in Europe). ‘Once’ is the story of a Jewish Boy named Felix who lives in a Catholic Orphanage whose parents were missing due to the Nazi’s. Felix was one of the hundreds of Jewish children whose parents have been killed or taken to Concentration Camp. Hitler didn’t like the Jews because he thought that they were responsible for Germany being defeated World War II. Hitler also didn’t like the Jews because he thought that Jews killed Jesus. The Nazi’s seperated Jewish kids from there parents and took them to concentration camps. If they refused
In the play ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ there was one thing that helps the most importance to a Jew in the community, the Star of David. It was a symbol of all Jews and Germans too for both good and bad reasons at the same time. In the play Peter says something to Anne “You can’t throw... ? Something they branded you with…? That they made you wear so they could spit on you.” (pg 709). What Peter is saying is that Star of David only gave misery to Jews because they would be looked down by Germans since they thought it was their fault they lost WW1 in the first place. While to Peter it gave a negative opinion about it Anne’s opinion is different from his completely. Anne states “It’s funny. I can’t throw mine away. I don’t know why.” (pg 709).