In addition to her attire, she used her words to demean the already morose women under her command. Olga Lengyl recalled Grese calling her “filthy scum,” “pig,” and “swine” moments before Grese reprimanded or beat her. The Jewish people view pigs as unclean and unholy. They do not eat pork for this reason. Irma Grese’s use of these specific terms on Jewish women contained an even worse connotation than if she said them to a woman of a different faith. Rabbi Mendy Kaminker wrote, “Colloquially, the pig is the ultimate symbol of loathing; when you say that someone “acted like a chazir [pig],” it suggests that he or she did something unusually abominable.” Though perhaps Grese only thought of pigs as dirty, nasty animals. Which is the same way she viewed the women in her vicious care. While Irma Grese mastered the art of humiliating the inmates, she also quickly perfected her skill with corporal punishment …show more content…
Irma Grese quickly climbed the corporate ladder at Birkenau. Daniel Brown stated she “was promoted to the rank of Oberaufseherin, or “Senior SS Matron.” This gave her even more leeway to abuse the women confined within the camp. When she walked around camp, Irma Grese carried with her a riding whip, the kind normally used for horses, sometimes a truncheon and a pistol. She liberally used each of these weapons when dealing with the prisoners. At her trail many of her former victims testified about her beating them and others. One victim named Gertrude Diament testified, “Grese at both Auschwitz and Belsen…beat women with sticks and when they fell to the ground she kicked them as hard as she could with her heavy boots.” Additionally, Ilona Stein testified that Irma Grese noticed a mother and daughter talking. She immediately walked over “before the mother could get away and the mother was beaten severely and kicked by
When in America, Helen found that it was hard not to talk about past and the stories of her imprisonment. “Some survivors found it impossible to talk about their pasts. By staying silent, they hoped to bury the horrible nightmares of the last few years. They wanted to spare their children and those who knew little about the holocaust from listening to their terrible stories.” In the efforts to save people from having to hear about the gruesome past, the survivors also lacked the resources to mentally recovery from the tragedy.
Borowski states that “Probably they too had their lovers, and probably they too stole margarine and tins of food in order to pay for blankets and dresses” as a way of meeting sexual and human desires (248). There was the girl, Mirka, who decorated her barrack in all things pink and had a Jew from a different Kommando that despite eminent danger from chiefs or S.S. officers patrolling the women’s barracks threw her eggs over the barbed wire fence. He also came and spent time with her, despite the potential consequences it could lead to. Jewish women in the camps also begged the prisoners working in the camps for anything and everything they could give them. It ranged from “a penknife, a handkerchief, a spoon, a pencil, a piece of paper, a shoe string, or bread” (248). Jewish women also wore brightly colored dresses and had “colorful quilts and blankets” they hid sick people under, such as the “pretty child”; as a result, this camp was known as the “Persian Market” (247). According to Borowski, interned people also used the latrines as a forum for “love dialogue,” as nothing was “uncomfortable” due to the atrocity of the camp (253). Elders of the camps tried to keep Jews distracted from their thoughts by encouraging that singers sang, dancers danced, and poets recited (251). Elders also allowed Jews to drink tea or take naps in
The Oka Crisis was a land dispute in Canada between the town of Oka, Quebec and the Mohawk community of Kanesatake. In 1989, the mayor of Oka, Jean Ouellette, had announced that the remainder of pine trees near Kanesatake would be removed to add an additional nine holes onto a private, members-only golf course club and the development of sixty condominiums. Three years earlier, the Mohawk people filed a land claim for that area, but had been rejected because it failed to meet key criteria. The development plan was the start of the crisis because that land is a sacred grove and burial ground to the Mohawk people. This resulted in a protest by the Mohawks against the court decision to allow the start of the golf course construction.
It is in gaining a sense of our identity that we find a place to belong. This is presented in Episode 4, Stand Up, of the television series Redfern Now, directed by Rachael Perkins.
For instance, throughout the book, she emphasises her point stating that women are not any different from men when it comes to violence, and they equally commit murder when given the opportunity in the right circumstance, but she refuses to acknowledge the male and female murder statistics. A modern statistical analysis which concludes, “Although women compromise more than half of the U.S population, they committed only 14.7% of the homicides noted during the study interval. In contrast to men, who killed non-intimate acquaintances, strangers, or victims of undetermined relationship in 80% of cases.” Although Hitler’s Furies is useful for learning the role women played in the Third Reich, it is a one-sided book with an agenda. Hence, it is not a book to be recommended for using as an academic source when examining the role of women in the Third Reich without prejudice.
Eleven years ago Hurricane Katrina hit us, hard. The levees failed to do what they were made for. It was both a natural and man made disaster that was destined to happen and too late to stop. The damage has been done; the lives lost. But this storm, awful as it was, did more than destroy. The hurricane brought people closer as we cleaned up cleaned up after it’s mess. There were people donating, volunteering. It all just goes back to show our identity as Americans. It shows that even when we get knocked down, we always resurface, united as one, and if that isn’t our identity; I don’t know what is.
In the film “A Day in Auschwitz” we learn about a woman named Kitty Hart, a holocaust survivor that was forced into Auschwitz only at the age of sixteen. In present day; we observe Kitty and two other young girls (Lydia and Natalia) walk around the camp while also being educated on the horrors that took place in auschwitz, and Kitty’s struggle for survival. The documentary also mentions Kitty’s mother, a smart, skilled, and talented woman that helped both her and her daughter escape Auschwitz.
Moral Panic The American public is exposed to violent crimes and drug abuse every day in the media. Panic tends to occur when the violence associated with drugs slowly infiltrates neighborhoods, and exposes law-abiding citizens to criminal activities. This panic causes a demand for action to eliminate the violence and crimes being broadcasted in the media daily.
Moral panics surrounding the health, wellbeing, and behavior of teenagers have flared up consistently over the past decade, from getting drunk off vodka tampons to getting ‘high’ off MP3s downloaded on the Internet, or i-dosing. The popularity of the Internet among youth has inflamed moral panics, in which parents shift the blame onto a media form due to their fears about a new technology or a cultural phenomenon that they cannot control, and which they perceive as negatively impacting society. In his article The Cultural Power of an Anti-Television Metaphor, Jason Mittell discusses how framing a perceived societal ill as similar to a drug makes people believe it is a public health threat. The scientifically baseless moral panic of i-dosing illustrates the fears of parents, community authority figures, and the media that the Internet
Hurricane Katrina left a devastating scar on the citizens of the southern coast of the U.S., especially New Orleans, Louisiana. The category 5 hurricane was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the most deadly. Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29th, 2005 and after that day, 66,000 people were displaced from their homes. Of those who decided to ride out the storm with hopes of success and survival as they had experienced with other storms, they were found on their rooftops, in their attics, hoping for boat or helicopter rescue, relying on others for help to survive. The storm had reached 28,000 square feet inward to Louisiana, which was 60 percent of the state. 1,100 Louisianans lost their lives, and 200,000 were displaced and/or lost their homes (Davis 8). It was a devastating time of despair and suffering. People were put through experiences that would scar them for a long time. While preparing for evacuation, people left most of their belongings at home to flee to a safer city or to find shelter in the Superdome and Convention Center. Some even decided to remain in their boarded up homes. After the hurricane had past, a few hours went by and a levee located near the Mississippi River canal broke leaving New Orleans flooded (Delisi). After the disaster, the state and federal governments were pointing fingers at each other as to who was to blame for the poorly planned evacuation and rescue efforts for the victims. The state government promised to help evacuate those who could not transport themselves. Citizens were told to go to the Superdome and convention center for evacuation, but the supplies needed for survi...
October 29th 2012 the high wind destroyer struck the heart of New York. They called her sandy; she was a very devastating hurricane. She demolished more than 300,000 homes and left them homeless, and confirmed 285 deaths. Imagine big strong winds whistling around your home, no power, and a big river down your street with cars bobbing down it, scary, isn’t it. These are some of the tragic events that happened during hurricane sandy. What is a hurricane? The proper definition is, when a series of cold gusty winds mix with the warm humid air. It’s just like a tornado but it forms over water.
Ofer, Dalia, and Lenore J. Weitzman. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 1. Print.
Lily expressed how she is a witness in the Holocaust, being a witness means experiencing step by step what happened, living through it daily, and being able to give evidence to the world. Lily proved that she is a witness by wanting to break the silence in her thoughts, so she created a video to share her important messages and said that she would become known for and remembered. Although Lily might not have changed everyone's perspectives, she still broke her silence and spoke up for herself and the witnesses of the Holocaust. Additionally, in “Irene Fogel’s testimony” she shared the unforgettable experiences that she saw throughout the Holocaust. “Women and children entering the gate of the crematorium.
Hurricane Maria was destructive and caused a large amount of damage to the entire island of Puerto Rico. Maria hit on September 20 and was a category four hurricane, nearly a category five. Hurricane Maria has had a tremendous impact on the lives of Puerto Ricans and even the world.
The conflict over Frl. Mayr’s yodeling is humorous on one level. But, with knowledge of what soon will happen; which Isherwood, at the time of publication, had access too, the scene is transformed into a more sinister, horrific example of the prejudices facing Jews: “Thereby, she insulted not merely Frl. Mayr, but all Bavarian, all German women: and it was Frl.