Informative Analysis Of The Holocaust

Two newspaper articles bring attention to the actions being taken by Americans to aid Jewish victims and refugees of what would be known as the Holocaust. The articles titled, “Rabbis Plead for Europe’s Jews Today” and “Rescuing Refugees-- and in time! New Board Striving to Get Victims out Europe ‘In Mass’”, published by the Washington Post in 1943 and 1944 respectively. Considering the articles were only published five months apart from each other, they differ in the scope of the presentation and level of details. While the second article provides an informative analysis of the Holocaust by providing information about the countries, victims and the efforts to aid the victims, the second article only provides basic facts about the Holocaust and the names of a Jewish community leaders proposed effort to make an appeal to the United States government to aid in the rescue of Jewish refugees in Europe.

The first article published in October of 1943 provides basic information relating to the Holocaust and rescue of the “Jews” from Nazi-occupied Europe. On the contrary, the second article published in March of 1944 presents a more concise and in-depth analysis of the events. As an illustration to contrast, the second articles features a picture showing a refugee, presumably a Jewish woman hugging a young girl and it not only mentions the Jewish people as victims, it also mentions persecuted minorities suffering at the hands of Nazi-Germany and additionally at the hands of the other Axis powers, like Italy and others in the region like, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Balkans and Vichy, France, something that the first article doesn’t