On the other hand there is a growing consensus that these reasons do not fully explain the failure to deal with a problem like the Holocaust when the dimensions of the situation were known at a relatively early stage. The weight of the argument wou Continue Reading...
"Some Holocaust survivors have said that not only did the barbed-wire surrounding Auschwitz tremble and howl, but also the tortured earth itself moaned with the voices of the victims" (ISurvived.org). The first waves of prisoners arrived at Auschwi Continue Reading...
Jewish Victim Primary Source: Victor Klemperer's I Will Bear Witness Victor Klemperer was in many ways atypical of many Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He had a relatively privileged position as an academic, writer, and journalist. His identif Continue Reading...
CONTESTED PUBLIC SPACE: MEMORIES & HISTORY Contested Public Space: Memories and History Das Denkmal fur Die Ermordeten Juden Europas The Memory Landscape. Mary's is a large old-style brick church belonging to the council of the Hanseatic city Continue Reading...
Maus vols. I and II Maus: The 'cat and mouse' game of Art Spiegelman's Maus One of the most striking aspects of the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman by is the way in which it uses animal cartoon characters to illustrate one of the most tragic p Continue Reading...
Memory The (Im) persistence of Historical and Collective Memory: The Collective Forgetting of Vichy France and the Victims of the Holocaust The unstable nature of human memory even on a personal level has been a persistent theme since Sigmund Freud Continue Reading...
Sylvia Plath: The Use of Dramatic Monologue as Confessional Poetry Sylvia Plath presents an unusual paradox as a writer. On one hand, she is lauded by literary critics, particularly feminist critics, for her use of confessional poetry. Specifically, Continue Reading...
Genocide in Germany What are the questions you are asking in your paper and what is the main argument? What constitutes genocide and what was the worst genocide in recent world history? Genocide is a traumatic part of world history. The term genoc Continue Reading...
Moving from the humor of matzo balls and used cars, the images of the poem grows darker as Terman recalls: "the dandruff of my dead friend's dark hair" that he values more "than the inscribed stones Moses/bloodied his flesh -- twice -- to attain." Continue Reading...
Etty Hillesum's book An Interrupted Life is about a woman who is growing up in times of turmoil and despair. Reading a book that centers round the Holocaust, the reader knows that the woman's story will undoubtedly end in tragedy. Yet, when reading t Continue Reading...
Human Genome, Stem Cells, & Reparations Stems Cells are the source of all body tissues. Growth and development of the human body arises from the stem cell and is maintained by it. Although all cells can divide or copy themselves, stem cells are Continue Reading...
Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip and Jordan took control of Israel's West Bank. In 1949 the Green Line was the name of the boundary between Israel and its Arab neighbors. However, the end of the war did not bring peace. The 1950s were marked by Continue Reading...
In 1918 Iceland became independent but remained under the rule of the Danish king. At the end of the war a plebiscite showed a 75% pro-Danish majority and the North Slesvig was once again reunited with Denmark (Miller 224). As World War I was comin Continue Reading...
They wagged their heads in sympathy and then proceeded to speak in the barren legalism of constricted hearts of their inability to intervene in the domestic affairs of other nations and of their own inviolate immigration laws." (Leff, 2005, p. 218) Continue Reading...
His life became a constant dread, a horrible fear that German militia would kill him or his family. On June 16, 1941, the Nazis ordered his father to report to the militia. "I looked out the window for hours on end," David wrote in his diary (p. 17 Continue Reading...
Additional countries, such as Argentina, Czech Republic, Chile, Slovak Republic, Spain, Balearic Islands and the Vatican made a Holodomor declaration. Russia continues to be complete denial and is utilizing it political influence to refute that this Continue Reading...
Home Examination Culture Marianne Hirsch discusses an important concept in Holocaust/Memory studies, postmemory. What kind of experience/process does postmemory refer to? Why did Hirsch need to invent such a concept? What is the importance of memo Continue Reading...
In addition to the Jewish population that was decimated by Hitler's Final Solution, the gypsy population was a targeted victim. According to the Jewish Virtual Library (JVL), "it is known that perhaps 250,000 Gypsies were killed, and that proportion Continue Reading...
Even though the Gypsies in prewar Germany consisted of a very limited per capita population they received massive amounts of attention from the Regime and were left ripe for further marginalization and destruction. Though they made up less than 0. Continue Reading...
Diary of Anne Frank The importance of Anne Frank's diary lies not in the fact that it is an eyewitness to the terrors of the Holocaust, for this is but one in thousands, it lies in the fact her writings reaffirm man's faith and hope in his fellow m Continue Reading...
Genocide in the 20th and 21st Centuries Prompt: Sadly, genocide did not end with the Holocaust. In fact, a lot more people have died from genocide since World War II than were victims of it in the war itself. How and why has this happened? What have Continue Reading...
Based on what is present in the essay, it seems as if you do not really have a problem finding beauty in the work of the Nazis, or benefiting from their atrocities, but rather maintained a false sense of ambivalence throughout the essay in order to Continue Reading...
Europe and Germany had a long anti-Semitic history and Nazism appeared to be the best solution during the 1930s. The masses were vulnerable to being influenced and Hitler was well-acquainted with this concept. Even with the fact that it is difficult Continue Reading...
Men described how they would make a throat cutting gesture toward the incoming Jews as they arrived in the death camps, but some said that they made that gestured a warning and others made it in order to taunt. Survivors talked about a deceiving cor Continue Reading...
They angered God, and as God has done throughout the ages, He punished the Jews. Many of them retain their faith and hope in God, and retained it even during their time in the concentration camps - it was the only thing that helped them to survive w Continue Reading...
Specifically, in the decades following the conclusion of World War II, the new German nation that eventually emerged from the physical devastation of the country and, more importantly, from the moral bankruptcy of having embraced, supported, and mad Continue Reading...
Germans, Post World War 2 Evil, German attitudes through the Twentieth Century, and humanity The Second World War has had a terrible impact on society as a whole and it is safe to say that it shaped the way that people perceived the idea of being h Continue Reading...
3. What could the Allied nations have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began? There has been much discussion regarding what the Allied nations could have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began. With the benef Continue Reading...
atrocities happening in recent modern history of civilization. The two World Wars in the first part of the 20th century have demonstrated the human capacity to inflict harm and destruction on its peers. Perhaps one of the most significant event in t Continue Reading...
As similarly suggested by Wally Hastings (1998), in his online article about Maus, By distancing the reader from the experience, the talking animals enable us to bear the horror implicit in the Holocaust memory." Art Spiegelman made use of differe Continue Reading...
Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi leader of the SS. Specifically, it will discuss his direct involvement with the concentration camps and the extermination of the Jewish people. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was an unsuccessful chicken farmer and fertilizer Continue Reading...
France's financial interests were reliant upon Hutu victory. As a result, France did intervene, even after the UN pulled out of Rwanda. However, the French intervention was not aimed at helping Tutsis. The Hutu greeted the French like allies, and th Continue Reading...
Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews is a classic in its field and a landmark historical text. First published in 1961, The Destruction of the European Jews was, and remains, one of the most comprehensive works of research on the Holoc Continue Reading...
Abandonment of Jews David S. Wyman is the current chairman of the Institute of Holocaust Studies, the institute that has been named after him. Through his book, Wyman made a great contribution in support of the Jews who he believes were abandoned by Continue Reading...
These include claims for Japanese revisionists that "… critics have stretched tales of Japanese brutality as means of putting political pressure on Japan and winning compensation." There has in fact been a revisionist interpretation of the ev Continue Reading...
In the case of an extreme situation, such as the death or near death of another, intentionality is a clear indicator of culpability and should be constitutionally supported. The constitution is a litmus of the culture and open violation of the inten Continue Reading...
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen In his book, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Goldhagen attempts to explain why the Holocaust happened. Central to his thesis is the notion that German citiz Continue Reading...
Post-Memory and Marianne Hirsch Marianne Hirsch discusses an important concept in Holocaust/Memory studies, post-memory. What kind of experience/process does post-memory refer to? Why did Hirsch need to invent such a concept? What is the importance Continue Reading...
Auschwitz gave to Promo Levi when he dared to ask the "Why?" question. To be sure, the guard was simply attempting to be cynical and sarcastic rather than reflective or philosophical, but LaCapra is also critical of Claude Lanzmann for failing to as Continue Reading...
